| Page |
| The Rush for the Gold-fields | [Frontispiece] |
| Nasmyth's Steam-hammer | [19] |
| Bessemer Converting Vessel | [28] |
| Bessemer Process | [30] |
| Krupp's 15.6 Breech-loading Gun (breech open) | [47] |
| Josiah Wedgwood | [52] |
| Wedgwood at Work | [56] |
| Portland Vase | [62] |
| The Worcester Porcelain Works | [64] |
| Chinese Porcelain Vase | [71] |
| Wool-sorters at Work | [82] |
| Cotton Plant | [101] |
| The Hand-cradle Method of extracting Gold | [103] |
| Welcome Nugget | [106] |
| Hydraulic Gold-mining | [115] |
| Prospecting for Gold | [125] |
| Square-cut Brilliant, Round-cut Brilliant, Rose-cut Diamond | [136] |
| Kimberley Diamond-mine | [139] |
| Some of the Principal Diamonds of the World | [145] |
| The Great Harry | [153] |
| Gatling Gun on Field Carriage | [163] |
| Nordenfelt-Palmcrantz Gun mounted on Ship's Bulwark | [164] |
| Lord Armstrong | [166] |
| Rifle-calibre Maxim Gun | [178] |
| One of the 'Wooden Walls of Old England' | [184] |
| The Majestic | [186] |
| Section of the Goubet Submarine Boat | [190] |
| The Dandy-horse | [204] |
| The Great Eastern and the Persia | [232] |
| The Campania | [237] |
| Clipper Sailing-ship of 1850-60 | [241] |
| La France | [246] |
| The Great Eastern paying out the Atlantic Cable | [281] |
| Edison with his Phonograph | [291] |