Historic Inventions by Rupert Sargent Holland
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About this eBook
| Author | Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952 |
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| LoC No. | 11023819 |
| Title | Historic Inventions |
| Contents | Gutenberg and the printing press -- Palissy and his enamel -- Galileo and the telescope -- Watt and the steam-engine -- Arkwright and the spinning-jenny -- Whitney and the cotton-gin -- Fulton and the steamboat -- Davy and the safety-lamp -- Stephenson and the locomotive -- Morse and the telegraph -- Mccormick and the reaper -- Howe and the sewing-machine -- Bell and the telephone -- Edison and the electric light -- Marconi and the wireless telegraph -- The Wrights and the airship. |
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Produced by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | T: Technology |
| Subject | Inventions |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 42517 |
| Release Date | Apr 12, 2013 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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