Boys' Second Book of Inventions
by Ray Stannard Baker
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About this eBook
- Author
- Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946
- Title
- Boys' second book of inventions
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- T: Technology
- Subject
- Inventions
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44188
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44188
- Release Date
- November 15, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BOYS' SECOND BOOK OF INVENTIONS
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.CHAPTER I THE MIRACLE OF RADIUM Story of the Marvels and Dangers of the New Element Discovered by Professor and Madame Curie
- 5.CHAPTER II FLYING MACHINES [1] Santos-Dumont's Steerable Balloons
- 6.CHAPTER III THE EARTHQUAKE MEASURER Professor John Milne's Seismograph
- 7.CHAPTER IV ELECTRICAL FURNACES How the Hottest Heat is Produced—Making Diamonds
- 8.CHAPTER V HARNESSING THE SUN The Solar Motor
- 9.CHAPTER VI THE INVENTOR AND THE FOOD PROBLEM Fixing of Nitrogen—Experiments of Professor Nobbe
- 10.CHAPTER VII MARCONI AND HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS New Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy
- 11.CHAPTER VIII SEA-BUILDERS The Story of Lighthouse Building—Stone-tower Lighthouses, Iron Pile Lighthouses, and Steel Cylinder Lighthouses
- 12.CHAPTER IX THE NEWEST ELECTRIC LIGHT Peter Cooper Hewitt and His Three Great Inventions—The Mercury Arc Light—The New Electrical Converter—The Hewitt Interrupter
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