Stories of Inventors :
Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
Stories of Inventors : The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers [electronic resource] / Russell Doubleday - Project Gutenberg, 2004 - Project Gutenberg 11368 .
How Guglielmo Marconi telegraphs without wires -- Santos-Dumont and his air-ship -- How a fast train is run -- How automobiles work -- The fastest steamboats -- The life-savers and their apparatus -- Moving pictures: some strange subjects and how they were taken -- Bridge builders and some of their achievements -- Submarines in war and peace -- Long-distance telephony: what happens when you talk into a telephone receiver -- A machine that thinks: a type-setting machine that makes mathematical calculations -- How heat produces cold: artificial ice-making.
Public domain in the USA.
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Inventions Inventors
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Stories of Inventors : The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers [electronic resource] / Russell Doubleday - Project Gutenberg, 2004 - Project Gutenberg 11368 .
How Guglielmo Marconi telegraphs without wires -- Santos-Dumont and his air-ship -- How a fast train is run -- How automobiles work -- The fastest steamboats -- The life-savers and their apparatus -- Moving pictures: some strange subjects and how they were taken -- Bridge builders and some of their achievements -- Submarines in war and peace -- Long-distance telephony: what happens when you talk into a telephone receiver -- A machine that thinks: a type-setting machine that makes mathematical calculations -- How heat produces cold: artificial ice-making.
Public domain in the USA.
Electronic text
Inventions Inventors
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