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- catalog contributor b4795947.
- catalog created "1860.".
- catalog date "1860".
- catalog date "1860.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1860.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Sir Humphrey Davy and the safety lamp -- Carcel and his lamp -- Gas lighting -- James Brindley and canal navigation -- John Smeaton : light-houses and harbors -- Inventions of Joseph Bramah -- Thomas Telford Menai Suspension Bridge -- John Rennie : docks and bridges -- The first practical steam-boat -- Sir Isambarb M. Brunel : block machinery and the Thames Tunnel -- George Stephenson, the railway engineer -- Robert Stephenson and railway works -- Isambarb K. Brunel : railway works and iron shipbuilding -- Photography and the stereoscope -- Caoutchouc and its manufactures -- Gutta Percha and its manufactures -- The electric telegraph.".
- catalog description "The inventions of Archimedes -- The magnet and the mariner's compass -- Who invented printing and where? -- Who invented gunpowder? -- The barometer : Torricelli and Pascal -- The air-pump and the air-gun -- Living under water : the diving-bell -- Automata and speaking machines -- The automaton chess-player -- Navigation of the air : adventures with the balloon -- The true history of Friar Bacon -- The discoveries of Leonardo da Vinci -- The story of Paracelsus -- Napier's secret inventions -- Lord Bacon's new philosophy -- Inventions of Prince Rupert -- Prince Rupert's drops -- Sir Samuel Morland and his inventions -- The Marquis of Worcester's century of inventions -- George Graham and his improvement of the watch -- John Harrison and the longitude watch -- Dr. William Harvey and the circulation of the blood -- Dr. Jenner and his discovery of vaccination -- Euler's powers of calculation -- Mr. George Bidder and mental calculation -- Calculating machines -- ".
- catalog description "The starry Galileo : invention of the telescope -- Isaac Newton makes the first reflecting telescope -- Guinand's glass for achromatic telescopes -- Sir William Herschel and his telescopes -- The Earl of Rosse's reflecting telescopes -- The invention of the microscope -- Sir David Brewster's kaleidoscope -- Magic mirrors and burning lenses -- Discovery of the planet Neptune -- Palissy the potter -- Josiah Wedgwood and his wares -- James Watt and the steam-engine -- The cotton manufacture. Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny : Arkwright and the spinning frame ; Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule ; Dr. Cartwright and the power-loom ; Calico-printing and the rise of the Peels ; Cotton-spinning machinery -- John Lombe and the first silk-throwing mill in England -- William Lee and the stocking-frame -- Jacquard and his loom -- Dr. Franklin proves the identity of lightning and electricity -- Chemistry of the gases : discovery of choke-damp and fire-damp -- ".
- catalog extent "[v]-xiv, [15]-473 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts.".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard social history/business preservation microfilm project. Project 2a ; 22603. mmf".
- catalog issued "1860".
- catalog issued "1860.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Harper & Brothers,".
- catalog relation "Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts.".
- catalog subject "Inventions History.".
- catalog subject "Inventions.".
- catalog subject "Inventors.".
- catalog subject "T15 .T58".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sir Humphrey Davy and the safety lamp -- Carcel and his lamp -- Gas lighting -- James Brindley and canal navigation -- John Smeaton : light-houses and harbors -- Inventions of Joseph Bramah -- Thomas Telford Menai Suspension Bridge -- John Rennie : docks and bridges -- The first practical steam-boat -- Sir Isambarb M. Brunel : block machinery and the Thames Tunnel -- George Stephenson, the railway engineer -- Robert Stephenson and railway works -- Isambarb K. Brunel : railway works and iron shipbuilding -- Photography and the stereoscope -- Caoutchouc and its manufactures -- Gutta Percha and its manufactures -- The electric telegraph.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The inventions of Archimedes -- The magnet and the mariner's compass -- Who invented printing and where? -- Who invented gunpowder? -- The barometer : Torricelli and Pascal -- The air-pump and the air-gun -- Living under water : the diving-bell -- Automata and speaking machines -- The automaton chess-player -- Navigation of the air : adventures with the balloon -- The true history of Friar Bacon -- The discoveries of Leonardo da Vinci -- The story of Paracelsus -- Napier's secret inventions -- Lord Bacon's new philosophy -- Inventions of Prince Rupert -- Prince Rupert's drops -- Sir Samuel Morland and his inventions -- The Marquis of Worcester's century of inventions -- George Graham and his improvement of the watch -- John Harrison and the longitude watch -- Dr. William Harvey and the circulation of the blood -- Dr. Jenner and his discovery of vaccination -- Euler's powers of calculation -- Mr. George Bidder and mental calculation -- Calculating machines -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The starry Galileo : invention of the telescope -- Isaac Newton makes the first reflecting telescope -- Guinand's glass for achromatic telescopes -- Sir William Herschel and his telescopes -- The Earl of Rosse's reflecting telescopes -- The invention of the microscope -- Sir David Brewster's kaleidoscope -- Magic mirrors and burning lenses -- Discovery of the planet Neptune -- Palissy the potter -- Josiah Wedgwood and his wares -- James Watt and the steam-engine -- The cotton manufacture. Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny : Arkwright and the spinning frame ; Samuel Crompton and the spinning mule ; Dr. Cartwright and the power-loom ; Calico-printing and the rise of the Peels ; Cotton-spinning machinery -- John Lombe and the first silk-throwing mill in England -- William Lee and the stocking-frame -- Jacquard and his loom -- Dr. Franklin proves the identity of lightning and electricity -- Chemistry of the gases : discovery of choke-damp and fire-damp -- ".
- catalog title "Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young. By John Timbs ...".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".