LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Drop Forge—Forging a Steel Plate[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Raising Water with a Chain of Pots—a Primitive Pump Used in Egypt[32]
Horse-Operated Chain Pump Used in Greece[32]
Multiple Spindle Drill in a Motor Car Factory[33]
Bucket of a Giant Dredge with Its Jaws Wide Open[64]
Gold Dredge Eating Its Way Through River Sands[65]
Suction Dredge Excavating a Channel and Building New Land[65]
Air Lock of a Pneumatic Caisson[96]
Subaqueous Tunnel Showing the Shield in the Background[97]
Wharf Protected by a Pneumatic Breakwater[128]
Sun-Power Plant in Egypt[129]
Close-Up of One of the Reflectors of a Sun-Power Plant[129]
Giant Caproni Hydroaeroplane[160]
Concrete Steamship “Faith”[161]
“Virginian,” the Largest Locomotive in the World[161]
Loom Provided with a Jacquard Attachment[224]
Battery of Mule Spinning Frames[225]
Jacquard Attachment for Loom[225]
Digging a Trench with a Machine of the Chain Type[256]
Multiple Plowing on a Western Wheat Field[257]
Sawing Logs of Pulpwood into 16-Inch Lengths[288]
Heater in a Pulp Mill Where the Wood Pulp Is Mixed with Clay[288]
Modern Fourdrinier Paper-Making Machines[289]
Molten Metal from a Blast Furnace[320]
Bessemer Converter Blowing Air Through a Mass of Molten Iron[320]
Steel Beam Passing Through the Finishing Rolls[321]
Compositor at Work on a Linotype Machine[352]
The Optophone, Which Enables the Blind to Read Print[353]
Blind Man Reading with His Ears[353]