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Title: Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
Contents: How Guglielmo Marconi telegraphs without wires -- Santos-Dumont and his air-ship -- How a fast train is run -- How automobiles work -- The fastest steamboats -- The life-savers and their apparatus -- Moving pictures: some strange subjects and how they were taken -- Bridge builders and some of their achievements -- Submarines in war and peace -- Long-distance telephony: what happens when you talk into a telephone receiver -- A machine that thinks: a type-setting machine that makes mathematical calculations -- How heat produces cold: artificial ice-making.
Credits: Produced by Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Author: Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
EBook No.: 11368
Published: Feb 1, 2004
Downloads: 62
Language: English
Subject: Inventions
Subject: Inventors
LoCC: Technology
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
Contents: How Guglielmo Marconi telegraphs without wires -- Santos-Dumont and his air-ship -- How a fast train is run -- How automobiles work -- The fastest steamboats -- The life-savers and their apparatus -- Moving pictures: some strange subjects and how they were taken -- Bridge builders and some of their achievements -- Submarines in war and peace -- Long-distance telephony: what happens when you talk into a telephone receiver -- A machine that thinks: a type-setting machine that makes mathematical calculations -- How heat produces cold: artificial ice-making.
Credits: Produced by Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Author: Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
EBook No.: 11368
Published: Feb 1, 2004
Downloads: 62
Language: English
Subject: Inventions
Subject: Inventors
LoCC: Technology
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.