The author is indebted to Ginn & Company, Boston, for the use of illustrations from "General History for Colleges and High Schools," by Philip Van Ness Myers, and "Ancient Times, A History of the Early World," by James Henry Breasted, and to George H. Doran Company, New York, for the use of a map from "A History of Sea Power," by William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott.

[CONTENTS]

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I.Invention in Primeval Times[1]
II.Invention in the Orient[24]
III.Invention in Greece[51]
IV.Invention in Rome: Its Rise and Fall[81]
V.Invention of the Gun and of Printing[101]
VI.Columbus, Copernicus, Galileo and Others[125]
VII.The Rise of Electricity, Steam and Chemistry[148]
VIII.The Age of Steam, Napoleon and Nelson[179]
IX.Inventions in Steam, Electricity, and Chemistry Create a Dangerous Era[203]
X.Certain Important Creations of Invention, and Their Beneficent Influence[231]
XI.Invention and Growth of Liberal Government and American Civil War[255]
XII.Invention of the Modern Military Machine, Telephone, Phonograph and Preventive Medicine[279]
XIII.The Conquest of the Ether—Moving Pictures—Rise of Japan and the United States[301]
XIV.The Fruition of Invention[322]
XV.The Machine of Civilization, and the Dangerous Ignorance Concerning it, Shown by Statesmen[333]
XVI.The Future[341]

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]

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Carvings in Ivory and in Stone of Cavern Walls made by the Hunters of the Middle Stone Age[3]
Early Babylonian Signs, Showing Their Pictorial Origin[27]
Villa of an Egyptian Noble[34]
The Pyramids of Gizeh[36]
Assyrians Flaying Prisoners Alive[44]
Two Cretan Vases[52]
Insurgent Captives Brought Before Darius[58]
The Lighthouse of the Harbor of Alexandria in the Hellenistic Age[77]
Triumphal Procession from the Arch of Titus[96]
The Printing of Books[113]
Portuguese Voyages and Possessions[126]
Hero's Engines[150]
Hero's Altar Engine[151]
Leupold's Engine[154]