“Both interesting and instructive. Such a work as this is genuinely educative. There are numerous illustrations.”—Liverpool Courier.
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“Admirably written and handsomely produced. Mr. Selous’s volume shows careful research, and the illustrations of insects and the results of their powers are well done.”—World.
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM
INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS IN NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE OF WONDERFUL MACHINERY, MECHANICAL DEVICES, & MARVELLOUSLY DELICATE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
By ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, B.A. (Oxon.), F.R.G.S.
AUTHOR OF “THE ROMANCE OF MODERN EXPLORATION,” ETC.
With Twenty-six Illustrations. Extra Crown 8vo. 5s.
“No boy will be able to resist the delights of this book, full to the brim of instructive and wonderful matter.”—British Weekly.
“This book has kept your reviewer awake when he reasonably expected to be otherwise engaged. We do not remember coming across a more fascinating volume, even to a somewhat blasé reader whose business it is to read all that comes in his way. The marvels, miracles they should be called, of the modern workshop are here exploited by Mr. Williams for the benefit of readers who have not the opportunity of seeing these wonders or the necessary mathematical knowledge to understand a scientific treatise on their working. Only the simplest language is used and every effort is made, by illustration or by analogy, to make sufficiently clear to the non-scientific reader how the particular bit of machinery works and what its work really is. Delicate instruments, calculating machines, workshop machinery, portable tools, the pedrail, motors ashore and afloat, fire engines, automatic machines, sculpturing machines—these are a few of the chapters which crowd this splendid volume.”—Educational News.