The Romance of Industry and Invention
by Robert Cochrane
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Cochrane, Robert
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( www.archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- T: Technology
- Subject
- Inventions
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38329
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38329
- Release Date
- December 17, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org )
- 2.the Romance of Industry and Invention — ROBERT COCHRANE — PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1897
- 3.PREFACE. — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY AND INVENTION.
- 6.CHAPTER I. IRON AND STEEL. — BESSEMER STEEL. — SIR HENRY BESSEMER. — SIR CHARLES WILLIAM SIEMENS AND THE SIEMENS PROCESS. — KRUPP'S IRON AND STEEL WORKS AT ESSEN.
- 7.CHAPTER II. POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. — WORCESTER PORCELAIN.
- 8.CHAPTER III. THE SEWING-MACHINE.
- 9.CHAPTER IV. WOOL AND COTTON. — WOOL. — COTTON.
- 10.CHAPTER V. GOLD AND DIAMONDS. — NUGGETS. — METHODS OF MINING. — TREATMENT OF ORE AND GOLD IN THE TRANSVAAL. — STORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD-FIELDS. — JOHANNESBURG—THE GOLDEN. — GOLD-FIELDS OF COOLGARDIE. — DIAMONDS. — THE HON. CECIL J. RHODES, THE DIAMOND KING.
- 11.CHAPTER VI. BIG GUNS, SMALL-ARMS, AND AMMUNITION. — WOOLWICH ARSENAL. — THE ENFIELD SMALL-ARMS FACTORY. — LORD ARMSTRONG AND THE ELSWICK WORKS. — TESTING GUNS AT SHOEBURYNESS. — HIRAM S. MAXIM AND THE MAXIM MACHINE GUN. — IRONCLADS. — SUBMARINE BOATS.
- 12.CHAPTER VII. EVOLUTION OF THE CYCLE. — CYCLING.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII. STEAMERS AND SAILING-SHIPS. — THE CARRYING-TRADE OF THE WORLD. — THE FIRST STEAMER TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. — THE NEW CUNARDERS. — SAILING-SHIPS.
- 14.CHAPTER IX. POST-OFFICE—TELEGRAPH—TELEPHONE—PHONOGRAPH. — THE STORY OF ROWLAND HILL AND PENNY POSTAGE. — A VISIT TO THE POST-OFFICE. — THE POST-OFFICE ON WHEELS. — EARLY TELEGRAPHS. — THE TELEGRAPH OF TO-DAY. — ATLANTIC CABLES. — THE STATE AND THE TELEGRAPHS. — THE TELEPHONE. — THOMAS ALVA EDISON AND THE PHONOGRAPH. — THE END. — BOOKS COMPILED BY
- 15.ROBERT COCHRANE — London and Edinburgh.
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