Great Inventions and Discoveries
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| Language: | English |
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Project Gutenberg,
2011
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| Series: | Project Gutenberg
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| Online Access: | An ebook freely available from Project Gutenberg |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The printing press
- The steam engine
- Electricity: the telegraph and the telephone
- Electricity: Lighting, transportation, and other uses
- The discovery of America
- Weapons and gunpowder
- Astronomical discoveries and inventions
- The cotton-gin
- Anæsthetics
- Steel and rubber
- Stenography and the typewriter
- The friction match
- Photography
- Clocks
- Some machines: The sewing machine. The reaper. Spinning and weaving machines
- Aeronautics.