Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends
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- Stories of Invention
- TOLD BY INVENTORS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- STORIES OF INVENTION TOLD BY INVENTORS.
- I. INTRODUCTION.
- II. ARCHIMEDES.
- III. FRIAR BACON.
- OF THE PARENTS AND BIRTH OF FRYER BACON, AND HOW HE ADDICTED HIMSELF TO LEARNING.
- HOW FRYER BACON MADE A BRAZEN HEAD TO SPEAK, BY THE WHICH HE WOULD HAVE WALLED ENGLAND ABOUT WITH BRASS.
- HOW FRYER BACON BY HIS ART TOOK A TOWN, WHEN THE KING HAD LAIN BEFORE IT THREE MONTHS, WITHOUT DOING IT ANY HURT.
- HOW FRYER BACON BURNT HIS BOOKS OF MAGIC AND GAVE HIMSELF TO THE STUDY OF DIVINITY ONLY; AND HOW HE TURNED ANCHORITE.
- HOW VIRGILIUS WAS SET TO SCHOOL.
- HOWE THE EMPEROR ASKED COUNSEL OF VIRGILIUS, HOW THE NIGHT RUNNERS AND ILL DOERS MIGHT BE RID-OUT OF THE STREETS.
- HOW VIRGILIUS MADE A LAMP THAT AT ALL TIMES BURNED.
- IV. BENVENUTO CELLINI.
- LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI.
- BENVENUTO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
- V. BERNARD PALISSY.
- BERNARD PALISSY THE POTTER.
- VI. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
- FRANKLIN'S METHOD OF GROWING BETTER.
- MUSICAL GLASSES.
- VII. THEORISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH.
- EDGEWORTH'S TELEGRAPH.
- [DESCRIBED BY HIMSELF.]
- MR. EDGEWORTH'S TELEGRAPH IN IRELAND.
- [DESCRIBED BY HIS DAUGHTER.]
- (Presented, Oct. 6, 1796.)
- MR. EDGEWORTH'S MACHINE.
- MORE OF MR. EDGEWORTH'S FANCIES.
- JACK THE DARTER.
- A ONE-WHEELED CHAISE.
- VIII. JAMES WATT.
- THE NEWCOMEN ENGINE.
- JAMES WATT AND THE STEAM-ENGINE.
- THE SEPARATE CONDENSER.
- COMPLETING THE INVENTION.
- WATT MAKES HIS MODEL.
- IX. ROBERT FULTON.
- X. GEORGE STEPHENSON AND THE LOCOMOTIVE.
- GEORGE STEPHENSON.
- XI. ELI WHITNEY.
- ELI WHITNEY.
- XII. JAMES NASMYTH.
- THE STEAM-HAMMER.
- JAMES NASMYTH.
- XIII. SIR HENRY BESSEMER.
- THE AGE OF STEEL.
- BESSEMER'S FAMILY.
- HENRY BESSEMER.
- STAMPED PAPER.
- GOLD PAINT.
- BESSEMER STEEL.
- XIV. THE LAST MEETING.
- GOODYEAR.
- FOOTNOTES:
- INDEX.
- MR. HALE'S BOY BOOKS.
- EDWARD E. HALE'S WRITINGS.
- EDWARD E. HALE'S WRITINGS.
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