The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
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Chapters (26)
- THE AGE OF INVENTION,
- A CHRONICLE OF MECHANICAL CONQUEST
- PREFATORY NOTE
- THE AGE OF INVENTION
- CHAPTER I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HIS TIMES
- CHAPTER II. ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN
- CHAPTER III. STEAM IN CAPTIVITY
- CHAPTER IV. SPINDLE, LOOM, AND NEEDLE IN NEW ENGLAND
- CHAPTER V. THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VI. AGENTS OF COMMUNICATION
- CHAPTER VII. THE STORY OF RUBBER
- CHAPTER VIII. PIONEERS OF THE MACHINE SHOP
- CHAPTER IX. THE FATHERS OF ELECTRICITY
- CHAPTER X. THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- GENERAL
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
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