The age of invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest

Holland Thompson

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THE AGE OF INVENTION ,LAND THOMPSON Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2008 witii funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arGhive.org/details/ageofinventionGhOOthomuoft THE AGE OF INVENTION ABRAHAM LINCOLN EDITION VOLUME 37 THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA SERIES ALLEN JOHNSON EDITOR GERHARD R. LOMER CHARLES W. JEFFERYS ASSISTANT EDITORS THE INVENTIONAGE OF A CHRONICLE OF MECHANICAL CONQUEST BY HOLLAND THOMPSON NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS GLASGOW. BROOKTORONTO: & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921 Copyright, 1921, hy Yale University Press PREFATORY NOTE This volume is not intended to be a complete record of inventive genius and mechanical progress in the United States. A bare catalogue of notable American inventions in the nineteenth century pages.alone could not be compressed into these Nor is it any part of the purpose of this book to mechanicaltrespass on the ground of the many works and encyclopedias which give technical explain in detail the principle ofdescriptions and every invention. All this book seeks to do is to personalities of some of the outstandmgoutline the American inventors and indicate the significance achievements.of their Acknowledgments are due the Editor of the to members of the staff of the YaleSeries and particularly, Miss ConstanceUniversity Press— Lindsay Skinner, IVIr.

Sujets

• Invention
• HIStory
• United States

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 9
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

Extrait

THE AGE
OF INVENTION
,LAND THOMPSONDigitized by tine Internet Arciiive
in 2008 witii funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation
littp://www.arGhive.org/details/ageofinventionGhOOthomuoftTHE AGE OF INVENTIONABRAHAM LINCOLN EDITION
VOLUME 37
THE CHRONICLES
OF AMERICA SERIES
ALLEN JOHNSON
EDITOR
GERHARD R. LOMER
CHARLES W. JEFFERYS
ASSISTANT EDITORS