Invention, the Master-key To Progress
by Bradley A. Fiske
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen), 1854-1942
- Title
- Invention: The Master-key to Progress
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, 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
- Inventions -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43965
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43965
- Release Date
- October 17, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.INVENTION, THE MASTER-KEY TO PROGRESS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INVENTION, THE MASTER-KEY TO PROGRESS
- 6.CHAPTER I INVENTION IN PRIMEVAL TIMES
- 7.CHAPTER II INVENTION IN THE ORIENT
- 8.CHAPTER III INVENTION IN GREECE
- 9.CHAPTER IV INVENTION IN ROME: ITS RISE AND FALL
- 10.CHAPTER V THE INVENTION OF THE GUN AND OF PRINTING
- 11.CHAPTER VI COLUMBUS, COPERNICUS, GALILEO AND OTHERS
- 12.CHAPTER VII THE RISE OF ELECTRICITY, STEAM AND CHEMISTRY
- 13.CHAPTER VIII THE AGE OF STEAM, NAPOLEON AND NELSON
- 14.CHAPTER IX INVENTIONS IN STEAM, ELECTRICITY AND CHEMISTRY CREATE A NEW ERA
- 15.CHAPTER X CERTAIN IMPORTANT CREATIONS OF INVENTION, AND THEIR BENEFICENT INFLUENCE
- 16.CHAPTER XI INVENTION AND GROWTH OF LIBERAL GOVERNMENT, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- 17.CHAPTER XII INVENTION OF THE MODERN MILITARY MACHINE, TELEPHONE, PHONOGRAPH, AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
- 18.CHAPTER XIII THE CONQUEST OF THE ETHER—MOVING PICTURES—RISE OF JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES
- 19.CHAPTER XIV THE FRUITION OF INVENTION
- 20.CHAPTER XV THE MACHINE OF CIVILIZATION, AND THE DANGEROUS IGNORANCE CONCERNING IT, SHOWN BY STATESMEN
- 21.CHAPTER XVI THE FUTURE
- 22.INDEX
- 23.Transcriber's Notes
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