Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday
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About this eBook
| Author | Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949 |
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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 |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | T: Technology |
| Subject | Inventions |
| Subject | Inventors |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 11368 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 25, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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