Project Gutenberg 2013-10-17 Public domain in the USA. 67 Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) 1854 1942 Fiske, Bradley Allen 21018784 Invention: The Master-key to Progress 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. 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) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43965/43965-h/images/cover.jpg en Inventions -- History T Text Browsing: History - General 749781 749792 2024-08-18T11:58:58.247531 2023-09-19T07:48:23.657358 text/html text/html 737560 2013-10-16T20:02:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1810028 2013-10-16T20:03:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1969057 2024-08-18T11:59:10.574472 application/epub+zip 1976120 2024-08-18T11:59:00.947542 application/epub+zip 336080 2024-08-18T11:58:59.539512 application/epub+zip 2183459 2024-08-18T11:59:17.225464 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2034296 2024-08-18T11:59:08.780473 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 474330 2022-09-20T05:21:21.284523 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 655933 655727 2024-08-18T11:58:56.596598 2023-09-19T07:48:22.140324 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 655539 2013-10-16T20:02:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 232585 2013-10-16T20:03:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 655644 2013-10-16T20:03:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 232496 2013-10-16T20:03:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20534 2024-08-18T11:59:17.385441 application/rdf+xml 19889 2024-08-18T11:58:59.704536 image/jpeg 2414 2024-08-18T11:58:59.621504 image/jpeg 1813725 2024-08-18T11:58:58.395510 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia