Historic Inventions
by Rupert Sargent Holland
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952
- Credits
- Produced by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- T: Technology
- Subject
- Inventions
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42517
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42517
- Release Date
- April 12, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Historic Inventions
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.I GUTENBERG AND THE PRINTING PRESS About 1400-1468
- 5.II PALISSY AND HIS ENAMEL About 1510-1589
- 6.III GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE 1564-1642
- 7.IV WATT AND THE STEAM-ENGINE 1736-1819
- 8.V ARKWRIGHT AND THE SPINNING-JENNY 1732-1792
- 9.VI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON-GIN 1765-1825
- 10.VII FULTON AND THE STEAMBOAT 1765-1815
- 11.VIII DAVY AND THE SAFETY-LAMP 1778-1829
- 12.IX STEPHENSON AND THE LOCOMOTIVE 1781-1848
- 13.X MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH 1791-1872
- 14.XI McCORMICK AND THE REAPER 1809-1884
- 15.XII HOWE AND THE SEWING-MACHINE 1819-1867
- 16.XIII BELL AND THE TELEPHONE 1847-
- 17.XIV EDISON AND THE ELECTRIC LIGHT 1847-
- 18.XV MARCONI AND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPH 1874-
- 19.XVI THE WRIGHTS AND THE AIRSHIP Wilbur Wright 1867- Orville Wright 1871-
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