Stories Of Inventors
by Russell Doubleday
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About this eBook
- Author
- Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
- Title
- Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
- Credits
- Produced by Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- T: Technology
- Subject
- Inventors
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 11368
- Release Date
- February 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STORIES OF INVENTORS — The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers. True Incidents And Personal Experiences — By
- 2.RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY — 1904
- 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.INTRODUCTION — STORIES OF INVENTORS — HOW GUGLIELMO MARCONI TELEGRAPHS WITHOUT WIRES
- 7.SANTOS-DUMONT AND HIS AIR-SHIP
- 8.HOW A FAST TRAIN IS RUN
- 9.HOW AUTOMOBILES WORK
- 10.THE FASTEST STEAMBOATS
- 11.THE LIFE-SAVERS AND THEIR APPARATUS
- 12.MOVING PICTURES — Some Strange Subjects and How They Were Taken
- 13.BRIDGE BUILDERS AND SOME OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS
- 14.SUBMARINES IN WAR AND PEACE — A PEACEFUL SUBMARINE
- 15.LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONY — What Happens When You Talk into a Telephone Receiver
- 16.A MACHINE THAT THINKS — A Typesetting Machine That Makes Mathematical Calculations
- 17.HOW HEAT PRODUCES COLD — ARTIFICIAL ICE-MAKING
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