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The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCloy, Shelby T. (Shelby Thomas), 1898-1973
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lexington] University of Kentucky Press [1952]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Technology.
Inventors.
Intellectual life.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
Inventeurs > France.
Technologie > France > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Inventors > France.
Technology > France > History > 18th century.
France.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the rival, i.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (254 pages).
ISBN:9780813163970

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