Every-Day Science Vol. VII, The Conquest of Time and Space

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Author

Williams, Edward Huntington, 1868-1944

Title

Every-day Science: Volume 7. The Conquest of Time and Space

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Albert László (bertzi), Charlie Howard, 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

Transportation

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Text

eBook-No.

43819

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43819

Release Date

September 27, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.EVERY-DAY SCIENCE
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.THE CONQUEST OF TIME AND SPACE
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.I THE CONQUEST OF THE ZONES — THE MARINER'S COMPASS — SAILING BY DEAD RECKONING — THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEXTANT — PERFECTING THE CHRONOMETER — FINDING THE TIME WITHOUT A CHRONOMETER — ASCERTAINING THE SHIP'S LONGITUDE — MEASURING A DEGREE OF LATITUDE — THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC — SOUNDINGS AND CHARTS — THE LURE OF THE UNKNOWN — THE QUEST OF THE POLE
7. 7.II THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS — MEDIÆVAL SHIPS — MODERN SAILING SHIPS — EARLY ATTEMPTS TO INVENT A STEAMBOAT — FULTON AND THE CLERMONT — SEA-GOING STEAMSHIPS — SHIPS BUILT OF IRON AND STEEL — THE TRIUMPH OF THE TURBINE — SUBMARINE SIGNALING — LIQUID FUEL
8. 8.III SUBMARINE VESSELS — THE FIRST SUBMARINE — ROBERT FULTON'S EXPERIMENTS — A SUCCESSFUL DIVING BOAT — RECENT SUBMARINES AND SUBMERSIBLES — PRESENT STATUS OF SUBMARINE BOATS
9. 9.IV THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE — STEPHENSON SOLVES THE PROBLEM — IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCOMOTIVES IN RECENT YEARS — THE WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE — AUTOMATIC COUPLINGS — A COMPARISON—THE OLD AND THE NEW
10. 10.V FROM CART TO AUTOMOBILE — THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BICYCLE — THE COMING OF THE AUTOMOBILE — AN EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF LEGISLATION — SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF AUTOMOBILE RACING — A MIRACULOUS TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY
11. 11.VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS — CABLE SYSTEMS — EARLY SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEMS — THE EDISON ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE — THIRD RAILS AND TROLLEYS — STORAGE-BATTERY SYSTEMS — MONORAIL SYSTEMS
12. 12.VII THE GYROCAR — GYROSCOPIC ACTION EXPLAINED — MR. BRENNAN'S MODEL CAR — HOW THE BRENNAN GYROSCOPES WORK — THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA
13. 13.VIII THE GYROSCOPE AND OCEAN TRAVEL — BESSEMER'S COSTLY EXPERIMENT — DR. SCHLICK'S SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT — DID GYROSCOPIC ACTION WRECK THE VIPER ? — THEORETICAL DANGERS OF THE GYROSCOPE
14. 14.IX NAVIGATING THE AIR — THE BALLOON INVENTED — PROGRESS IN MECHANICAL FLIGHT — GIFFARD, "THE FULTON OF AERIAL NAVIGATION" — THE VOYAGES OF THE GIANT — EARLY WAR-BALLOONS AND DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS — THE DIRIGIBLE BALLOON ACHIEVED
15. 15.X THE TRIUMPH OF THE AEROPLANE — LANGLEY'S EARLY EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOVERIES — EXPERIMENTS IN SOARING — THE FLYING MACHINES OF MAXIM AND LANGLEY — THE IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLISHED
16. 16.APPENDIX REFERENCE LIST AND NOTES — CHAPTER II THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS — CHAPTER III SUBMARINE VESSELS — CHAPTER IV THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE — CHAPTER VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS — CHAPTER IX NAVIGATING THE AIR — CHAPTER X THE TRIUMPH OF THE AEROPLANE
17. 17.Transcriber's Notes

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