Invention : The Master-key to Progress
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Project Gutenberg,
2013
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| Series: | Project Gutenberg
43965 |
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| Online Access: | An ebook freely available from Project Gutenberg |
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Table of Contents:
- Invention in primeval times
- Invention in the Orient
- Invention in Greece
- Invention in Rome: its rise and fall
- Invention of the gun and of printing
- Columbus, Copernicus, Galileo and others
- The rise of electricity, steam and chemistry
- The age of steam, Napoleon and Nelson
- Inventions in steam, electricity, and chemistry create a dangerous era
- Certain important creations of invention, and their beneficent influence
- Invention and growth of liberal government and American Civil War
- Invention of the modern military machine, telephone, phonograph and preventive medicine
- The conquest of the ether; moving pictures; rise of Japan and the United States
- The fruition of invention
- The machine of civilization, and the dangerous ignorance concerning it, shown by statesmen
- The future.