Every-Day Science Volume VI The Conquest of Nature, by Henry Smith Williams, M.D., L.L.D

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Author

Williams, Edward Huntington, 1868-1944

Title

Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, John Campbell, Albert László (bertzi) 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

Industrial arts

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Text

eBook-No.

44502

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44502

Release Date

December 24, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.EVERY-DAY SCIENCE
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.THE CONQUEST OF NATURE
5. 5.I — MAN AND NATURE — THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE — SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION
6. 6.II — HOW WORK IS DONE — WHEELS AND PULLEYS — OTHER MEANS OF TRANSMITTING POWER — INCLINED PLANES AND DERRICKS — FRICTION — AVAILABLE SOURCES OF ENERGY
7. 7.III — THE ANIMAL MACHINE — THE TWO TYPES OF MUSCLES — THE NATURE OF MUSCULAR ACTION — APPLICATIONS OF MUSCULAR ENERGY — THE WHEEL AND AXLE — MODIFIED LEVERS — DOMESTICATED ANIMALS
8. 8.IV — THE WORK OF AIR AND WATER — SUCTION AND PRESSURE — AIR IN MOTION — INHERENT DEFECTS OF THE WINDMILL — RUNNING WATER — HYDRAULIC POWER
9. 9.V — CAPTIVE MOLECULES: THE STORY OF THE STEAM ENGINE — BEGINNINGS OF MODERN DISCOVERY — THOMAS SAVERY'S STEAM PUMP — DENIS PAPIN INVENTS THE PISTON ENGINE — THOMAS NEWCOMEN'S IMPROVED ENGINE — THE COMING OF JAMES WATT — ROTARY MOTION — FINAL IMPROVEMENTS AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES — THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF WATT — THE PERSONALITY OF JAMES WATT
10. 10.VI — THE MASTER WORKER — HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM — COMPOUND ENGINES — ROTARY ENGINES — TURBINE ENGINES
11. 11.VII — GAS AND OIL ENGINES
12. 12.VIII — THE SMALLEST WORKERS — FRANKLIN'S ONE-FLUID THEORY — MODERN VIEWS — HOW ELECTRICITY IS DEVELOPED — THE WORK OF THE DYNAMICAL CURRENT — THEORIES OF ELECTRICAL ACTION — PRACTICAL USES OF ELECTRICITY
13. 13.IX — MAN'S NEWEST CO-LABORER: THE DYNAMO — THE MECHANISM OF THE DYNAMO — THE ORIGIN OF THE DYNAMO — PERFECTING THE DYNAMO — A MYSTERIOUS MECHANISM
14. 14.X — NIAGARA IN HARNESS — WITHIN THE POWER-HOUSE — PENSTOCKS AND TURBINES — A MIRACULOUS TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY — SUBTERRANEAN TAIL-RACES — THE EFFECT ON THE FALLS — THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER — "STEP UP" AND "STEP DOWN" TRANSFORMERS
15. 15.XI — THE BANISHMENT OF NIGHT — PRIMITIVE TORCH AND OPEN LAMP — TALLOW CANDLE AND PERFECTED OIL LAMP — GAS LIGHTING — THE INCANDESCENT GAS MANTLE — THE INTRODUCTION OF ACETYLENE GAS — THE TRIUMPH OF ELECTRICITY — DAVY AND THE FIRST ELECTRIC LIGHT — THE JABLOCHKOFF CANDLE — THE IMPROVED ARC LIGHT — EDISON AND THE INCANDESCENT LAMP — THE TUNGSTEN LAMP — THE MERCURY-VAPOR LIGHT OF PETER COOPER HEWITT
16. 16.XII — THE MINERAL DEPTHS — CONDITIONS TO BE CONSIDERED IN MINING — ELECTRIC MACHINERY IN MINING — TRACTION IN MINING — ELECTRIC MINING PUMPS — ELECTRICITY IN COAL MINING — ELECTRIC LIGHTING OF MINES
17. 17.XIII — THE AGE OF STEEL — THE LAKE SUPERIOR MINES — FROM MINE TO FURNACE — THE CONVERSION OF IRON ORE INTO IRON AND STEEL — SIR HENRY BESSEMER — OPEN-HEARTH METHOD — ALLOY STEELS
18. 18.XIV — SOME RECENT TRIUMPHS OF APPLIED SCIENCE — NITROGEN FROM THE AIR — ANOTHER METHOD OF NITROGEN FIXATION — ELECTRICAL ENERGY AND HIGH TEMPERATURES — OTHER INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS OF TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW
19. 19.APPENDIX

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