Project Gutenberg 2014-06-25 Public domain in the USA. 266 Williams, Archibald 1871 1934 The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments Delicate instruments; watches and chronometers; the microtome; the dividing engine; measuring machines -- Calculating machines -- Workshop machinery; the lathe; planing machines; the steam hammer; hydraulic tools; electrical tools in the shipyard -- Portable tools -- The pedrail: a walking steam-engine -- Internal combustion engines; oil engines; engines worked with producer gas; blast furnace gas engines -- Motor-cars; the motor omnibus; railway motor-cars -- The motor afloat; pleasure boats; motor lifeboats; motor fishing boats; a motor fire float; the mechanism of the motor boat; the two-stroke motor; motor boats for the navy -- The motor cycle -- Fire engines -- Fire-alarms and automatic fire extinguishers -- The machinery of a ship; the reversing engine; marine engine speed governors; the steering engine; blowing and ventilating apparatus; pumps; feed heaters; feed-water filters; distillers; refrigerators; the search-light; wireless telegraphy instruments; safety devices; the transmission of power on a ship -- The nurse of the navy -- The mechanism of diving -- Apparatus for raising sunken ships and treasure -- The handling of grain; the elevator; the suction pneumatic grain-lifter; the pneumatic blast grain-lifter; the combined system -- Mechanical transporters and conveyers; ropeways; cableways; telpherage; coaling warships at sea -- Automatic weighers -- Transporter bridges -- Boat- and ship-raising lifts -- A self-moving staircase -- Pneumatic mail tubes -- An electric postal system -- Agricultural machinery; ploughs; drills and seeders; reaping machines; threshing machines; petrol-driven field machinery; electrical farming machinery -- Dairy machinery; milking machines; cream separators; a machine for drying milk -- Sculpturing machines -- An automatic rifle; a ball-bearing rifle. Produced by Chris Curnow, Quentin Campbell 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/46094/46094-h/images/cover.jpg en Machinery Electric machinery T Text Browsing: Computers & Technology Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: Science - General 679118 679132 2024-07-19T09:49:41.502312 2023-09-20T06:07:00.867672 text/html text/html 677942 2014-06-25T11:58:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 6567364 2014-06-25T11:59:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 6824001 2024-07-19T09:49:56.729748 application/epub+zip 6809530 2024-07-19T09:49:44.622844 application/epub+zip 372876 2024-07-19T09:49:42.603817 application/epub+zip 7206935 2024-07-19T09:50:05.078667 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 7133789 2024-07-19T09:49:53.810738 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 472883 2022-09-21T04:08:02.045037 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 591491 591284 2024-07-19T09:49:39.958355 2023-09-20T06:06:59.499631 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 591410 2014-06-25T11:58:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 226880 2014-06-25T11:59:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 591493 2014-06-25T11:59:04 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 226760 2014-06-25T11:59:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21564 2024-07-19T09:50:05.264645 application/rdf+xml 22776 2024-07-19T09:49:42.840763 image/jpeg 3469 2024-07-19T09:49:42.775786 image/jpeg 6610731 2024-07-19T09:49:41.727299 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