Every-day Science: Volume 7. The Conquest of Time and Space
by Edward Huntington Williams Henry Smith Williams
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Chapters (388)
- EVERY-DAY SCIENCE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- THE CONQUEST OF TIME AND SPACE
- INTRODUCTION
- I THE CONQUEST OF THE ZONES
- THE MARINER'S COMPASS
- SAILING BY DEAD RECKONING
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEXTANT
- PERFECTING THE CHRONOMETER
- FINDING THE TIME WITHOUT A CHRONOMETER
- ASCERTAINING THE SHIP'S LONGITUDE
- MEASURING A DEGREE OF LATITUDE
- THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC
- SOUNDINGS AND CHARTS
- THE LURE OF THE UNKNOWN
- THE QUEST OF THE POLE
- II THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS
- MEDIÆVAL SHIPS
- MODERN SAILING SHIPS
- EARLY ATTEMPTS TO INVENT A STEAMBOAT
- FULTON AND THE CLERMONT
- SEA-GOING STEAMSHIPS
- SHIPS BUILT OF IRON AND STEEL
- THE TRIUMPH OF THE TURBINE
- SUBMARINE SIGNALING
- LIQUID FUEL
- III SUBMARINE VESSELS
- THE FIRST SUBMARINE
- ROBERT FULTON'S EXPERIMENTS
- A SUCCESSFUL DIVING BOAT
- RECENT SUBMARINES AND SUBMERSIBLES
- PRESENT STATUS OF SUBMARINE BOATS
- IV THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
- STEPHENSON SOLVES THE PROBLEM
- IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCOMOTIVES IN RECENT YEARS
- THE WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE
- AUTOMATIC COUPLINGS
- A COMPARISON—THE OLD AND THE NEW
- V FROM CART TO AUTOMOBILE
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BICYCLE
- THE COMING OF THE AUTOMOBILE
- AN EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF LEGISLATION
- SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF AUTOMOBILE RACING
- A MIRACULOUS TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY
- VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
- CABLE SYSTEMS
- EARLY SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEMS
- THE EDISON ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
- THIRD RAILS AND TROLLEYS
- STORAGE-BATTERY SYSTEMS
- MONORAIL SYSTEMS
- VII THE GYROCAR
- GYROSCOPIC ACTION EXPLAINED
- MR. BRENNAN'S MODEL CAR
- HOW THE BRENNAN GYROSCOPES WORK
- THE EVOLUTION OF AN IDEA
- VIII THE GYROSCOPE AND OCEAN TRAVEL
- BESSEMER'S COSTLY EXPERIMENT
- DR. SCHLICK'S SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT
- DID GYROSCOPIC ACTION WRECK THE VIPER?
- THEORETICAL DANGERS OF THE GYROSCOPE
- IX NAVIGATING THE AIR
- THE BALLOON INVENTED
- PROGRESS IN MECHANICAL FLIGHT
- GIFFARD, "THE FULTON OF AERIAL NAVIGATION"
- THE VOYAGES OF THE GIANT
- EARLY WAR-BALLOONS AND DIRIGIBLE BALLOONS
- THE DIRIGIBLE BALLOON ACHIEVED
- X THE TRIUMPH OF THE AEROPLANE
- LANGLEY'S EARLY EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOVERIES
- EXPERIMENTS IN SOARING
- THE FLYING MACHINES OF MAXIM AND LANGLEY
- THE IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLISHED
- APPENDIX REFERENCE LIST AND NOTES
- CHAPTER II THE HIGHWAY OF THE WATERS
- CHAPTER III SUBMARINE VESSELS
- CHAPTER IV THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
- CHAPTER VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
- CHAPTER IX NAVIGATING THE AIR
- CHAPTER X THE TRIUMPH OF THE AEROPLANE
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