[The Cannon, the Most Ancient of Fire Arms.] [Muzzle and Breech Loaders of the Sixteenth Century.] [The Armstrong Gun.] [The Rodman, Dahlgren, and Parrott Guns.] [Breech-Loading Ordnance.] [Rapid Fire Breech-Loading Rifles.] [Disappearing Gun.] [Gatling Gun.] [Dynamite Gun.] [The Colt, and Smith & Wesson Revolvers.] [German Automatic Pistol.] [Breech-Loading Small Arms.] [Magazine Guns.] [The Lee, Krag-Jorgensen, and Mauser Rifles.] [Hammerless Guns.] [Rebounding Locks.] [Gun Cotton.] [Nitro Glycerine, and Smokeless Powder.] [Mines and Torpedoes.]
Textiles.
[Spinning and Weaving an Ancient Art.] [Hargreaves’ Spinning Jenny.] [Arkwright’s Roll-Drawing Spinning Machine.] [Crompton’s Mule Spinner.] [The Cotton Gin.] [Ring Spinning.] [The Rabbeth Spindle.] [John Kay’s Flying Shuttle and Robt. Kay’s Drop Box.] [Cartwright’s Power Loom.] [The Jacquard Loom.] [Crompton’s Fancy Loom.] [Bigelow’s Carpet Looms.] [Lyall Positive Motion Loom.] [Knitting Machines.] [Cloth Pressing Machinery.] [Artificial Silk.] [Mercerized Cloth.]
Ice Machines.
[General Principles.] [Freezing Mixtures.] [Perkins’ Ice Machine, 1834.] [Pictet’s Apparatus.] [Carré’s Ammonia Absorption Process.] [Direct Compression, and Can System.] [The Holden Ice Machine.] [Skating Rinks.] [Windhausen’s Apparatus for Cooling and Ventilating Ships.]
Liquid Air.
[Liquefaction of Gases by Northmore—1805, Faraday—1823, Bussy—1824, Thilorier—1834, and others.] [Liquefaction of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Air, by Pictet and Cailletet in 1877.] [Self-Intensification of Cold by Siemens in 1857, and Windhausen in 1870.] [Operations of Dewar, Wroblewski, and Olszewski.] [Self-Intensifying Processes of Solvay, Tripler, Lindé, Hampson, and Ostergren and Berger.] [Liquid Air Experiments and Uses.]