LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Majestic, Largest Steamship in the World[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Eohippus—From Which the Modern Horse Developed[16]
Ornitholestes—A Prehistoric Animal of America[17]
Huntsman, Horse, and Hunting Dog of Long Ago—From an Ancient Cretan Fresco[17]
Prehistoric Paintings—An Exhibition of Copies from the Cavern at Altamira, Spain[24]
Saber-Toothed Tiger That Once Roamed Over North America[25]
Gutenberg's Printing Presses—Models on Exhibition[32]
Benjamin Franklin's Printing Press[33]
Model of the "Santa Maria," the Flagship of Columbus[48]
Curtiss Navy Racer, the Airplane That Won the Pulitzer Race of 1921[49]
U. S. Army Dirigible on a Transcontinental Flight[49]
Electric Motor of 1834[64]
Turning Lathe of 1843[64]
Edison Phonograph of 1878[65]
Whitney's Cotton Gin[65]
De Witt Clinton Train of 1831 Beside a Modern Locomotive[80]
Locomotive of the 1870 Period[81]
"John Bull," a Locomotive Brought from England in 1831[81]
Weather and Astronomical Instruments on the Roof of Greenwich Observatory, England[112]
Mooring Tower for Airships, with the "R-24" Fastened Head On[113]
Hospital Room in Which Infected Articles Are Sterilized[160]
Modern Operating Room in Paris, Fitted with a Glass Dome and Radio Microphones for Observing Students and Doctors[161]
Edouard Belin and the Telautograph, which Transmits Pictures by Wire[176]
Lee De Forest, Inventor of the Oscillating Audion[177]
Automobile with Radio Equipment for Listening in En Tour[177]
Gifts for Tutankhamen Brought by One of his Viceroys[192]
Tutankhamen's Tomb—Bringing Up the Hathor Couch[193]
Queen Nefertiti, Mother-in-Law of Tutankhamen and Wife of Ahknaton[193]