Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Anonymous

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      Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066217440

Table of Contents

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       INVENTION AND DISCOVERY. CURIOUS FACTS AND ILLUSTRATIVE SKETCHES.

       POETIC PROPHECIES.

       CONSTRUCTION OF THE THAMES TUNNEL.

       VAST SPOT ON THE SUN.

       DEATH OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.

       HOMAGE TO CUVIER.

       FALSE ESTIMATE OF RAILWAY SPEED.

       THE CRAWSHAYS OF MERTHYR TYDVIL.

       WEIGHING MACHINE AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

       CHILDHOOD OF PASCAL.

       THE DISCOVERER OF GUTTA PERCHA.

       SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S MAGNET.

       COAL GAS in BALLOONS.

       CUVIER AND NAPOLEON.

       LAST MOMENTS OF LEIBNITZ.

       FRANKLIN'S DISCOVERIES.

       CARNÔT, WHEN A CHILD.

       SMEATON'S INDEPENDENCE.

       CHILDHOOD OF CUVIER.

       WATT'S DISCOVERY OF THE COMPOSITION OF WATER.

       HOW PASCAL WEIGHED THE ATMOSPHERE.

       THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA. [2]

       HOLDING A "CRAWS' COURT."

       ALPINE PERILS.

       PHILOSOPHICAL ENTHUSIASM.

       "SHEPHERD TO THE KING OF ENGLAND FOR SCOTLAND."

       TRAVELS OF VOLCANIC DUST.

       EARLY LIFE OF ALEXANDER BRONGNIART.

       SMEATON'S REPROOF OF GAMING.

       INVENTION OF GUN-COTTON.

       SIR JOSEPH BANKS'S "BALANCE."

       BUCKINGHAM PALACE GATES.

       EARTHQUAKES IN CHILE.

       CUVIER IN LONDON.

       THE FIRST CUP OF TEA DRUNK IN ENGLAND.

       BENEFIT OF A WIFE TO AN AUTHOR.

       THE WORLD IN A DROP OF WATER.

       ORIGIN OF POST-PAID ENVELOPES.

       CHARACTER IN WORKS.

       BRINDLEY, THE ENGINEER.

       REASON FOR SILENCE.

       ASCENT OF THE JUNGFRAU ALP.

       THE STEAM-GUN IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

       ANCIENT OBSERVATORY IN PERSIA.

       LONDON AS A PORT.

       FOURDRINIER'S PAPER-MAKING MACHINERY.

       THE COCOA-NUT CRAB.

       DESCARTES' WOODEN DAUGHTER.

       ASTRONOMICAL SHOEMAKER.

       DECLINE OF SCIENCE.

       VARIABLE CLIMATE OF TEBREEZ.