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LoC No.: 21018784

Title: Invention: The Master-key to Progress

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.

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Author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen), 1854-1942

EBook No.: 43965

Published: Oct 17, 2013

Downloads: 65

Language: English

Subject: Inventions -- History

LoCC: Technology

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

This edition has images.

LoC No.: 21018784

Title: Invention: The Master-key to Progress

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.

Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)

Author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen), 1854-1942

EBook No.: 43965

Published: Oct 17, 2013

Downloads: 65

Language: English

Subject: Inventions -- History

LoCC: Technology

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.