Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature - Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington Williams

[CONTENTS]

ILLUSTRATIONS		[ vii]
THE CONQUEST OF NATURE		[ 1]
CHAPTER I	MAN AND NATURE	[ 3]
CHAPTER II	HOW WORK IS DONE	[ 29]
CHAPTER III	THE ANIMAL MACHINE	[ 43]
CHAPTER IV	THE WORK OF AIR AND WATER	[ 62]
CHAPTER V	THE STORY OF THE STEAM ENGINE	[ 79]
CHAPTER VI	THE MASTER WORKER	[ 110]
CHAPTER VII	GAS AND OIL ENGINES	[ 133]
CHAPTER VIII	THE SMALLEST WORKERS	[ 148]
CHAPTER IX	MAN'S NEWEST CO-LABORER: THE DYNAMO	[ 173]
CHAPTER X	NIAGARA IN HARNESS	[ 184]
CHAPTER XI	THE BANISHMENT OF NIGHT	[ 202]
CHAPTER XII	THE MINERAL DEPTHS	[ 242]
CHAPTER XIII	THE AGE OF STEEL	[ 271]
CHAPTER XIV	SOME RECENT TRIUMPHS OF APPLIED SCIENCE	[ 298]
APPENDIX		[ 320]

CHAPTER I

MAN AND NATURE

The Conquest of Nature, p. 4—Man's use of Nature's gifts, p. 6—Man the "tool-making animal," p. 7—Science and Civilization, p. 8—Clothing and artificially heated dwellings of primitive man, p. 10—Early domestication of animals, p. 11—Early development to the time of gunpowder, p. 12—The coming of steam and electricity, p. 15—Mechanical aids to the agriculturist, p. 19—The development of scientific agriculture, p. 20—Difficulties of the early manufacturer, p. 21—The development of modern manufacturing, p. 24—The relation of work to human development, p. 25—The decline of drudgery and the new era of labor-saving devices, p. 27.