Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century
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PLATE I. THE GREAT WHEEL IN ACTION.
DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed
Under the tumbling mountain’s breast,
In the safe herbal of the coal?
But when the quarried means were piled,
All is waste and worthless, till
Arrives the wise selecting Will,
Robert Routledge
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
LIST OF PLATES.
INTRODUCTION.
STEAM ENGINES.
IRON.
TOOLS.
RAILWAYS.
STEAM NAVIGATION.
SHIPS OF WAR.
FIRE-ARMS.
TORPEDOES.
SHIP CANALS.
IRON BRIDGES.
PRINTING MACHINES.
HYDRAULIC POWER.
PNEUMATIC DISPATCH.
ROCK BORING.
LIGHT.
THE SPECTROSCOPE.
ROENTGEN’S X RAYS.
SIGHT.
ELECTRICITY.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
LIGHTHOUSES.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
PRINTING PROCESSES.
RECORDING INSTRUMENTS.
AQUARIA.
GOLD AND DIAMONDS.
NEW METALS.
INDIAN-RUBBER and GUTTA-PERCHA.
ANÆSTHETICS.
EXPLOSIVES.
MINERAL COMBUSTIBLES.
COAL-GAS.
COAL-TAR COLOURS.
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF THE AGE.
NOTES A and B.
INDEX
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