Great Inventions and Discoveries [recurso electrónico] / Willis Duff Piercy

By: Piercy, Willis Duff
Material type: Continuing resourceContinuing resourceAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Project Gutenberg, 2011Subject(s): InventionsLOC classification: TOnline resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- The printing press -- The steam engine -- Electricity: the telegraph and the telephone -- Electricity: Lighting, transportation, and other uses -- The discovery of America -- Weapons and gunpowder -- Astronomical discoveries and inventions -- The cotton-gin -- Anæsthetics -- Steel and rubber -- Stenography and the typewriter -- The friction match -- Photography -- Clocks -- Some machines: The sewing machine. The reaper. Spinning and weaving machines -- Aeronautics.
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Introduction -- The printing press -- The steam engine -- Electricity: the telegraph and the telephone -- Electricity: Lighting, transportation, and other uses -- The discovery of America -- Weapons and gunpowder -- Astronomical discoveries and inventions -- The cotton-gin -- Anæsthetics -- Steel and rubber -- Stenography and the typewriter -- The friction match -- Photography -- Clocks -- Some machines: The sewing machine. The reaper. Spinning and weaving machines -- Aeronautics.

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