Men of achievement : Inventors.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.
Series:Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central.
Subjects:
Inventors.
Inventors
Inventeurs.
inventors.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
  • INVENTORS
  • PREFACE.
  • CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  • CHAPTER II. ROBERT FULTON
  • CHAPTER III. ELI WHITNEY
  • CHAPTER IV. ELIAS HOWE
  • CHAPTER V. SAMUEL F.B. MORSE
  • CHAPTER VI. CHARLES GOODYEAR
  • CHAPTER VII. JOHN ERICSSON
  • CHAPTER VIII. CYRUS HALL McCORMICK
  • CHAPTER IX. THOMAS A. EDISON
  • CHAPTER X. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
  • CHAPTER XI. AMERICAN INVENTORS, PAST AND PRESENT
  • James M. Townsend
  • E.L. Drake
  • Alvan Clark
  • John Fitch
  • Oliver Evans
  • Amos Whittemore
  • Thomas Blanchard
  • Richard M. Hoe
  • Thomas W. Harvey
  • C.L. Sholes.
  • B.B. Hotchkiss
  • Charles F. Brush
  • Rudolph Eickemeyer
  • George Westinghouse, Jr.
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FULL-PAGE
  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  • DEPARTURE OF THE CLERMONT ON HER FIRST VOYAGE
  • CHARLES GOODYEAR
  • JOHN ERICSSON
  • CYRUS HALL McCORMICK
  • THOMAS A. EDISON
  • EDISON IN HIS LABORATORY
  • PROFESSOR BELL SENDING THE FIRST TELEPHONE MESSAGE FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO
  • ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
  • THE FRANKLIN STOVE
  • FRANKLIN'S BIRTHPLACE, BOSTON
  • FRANKLIN ENTERING PHILADELPHIA
  • THE FRANKLIN PENNY
  • FRANKLIN 'S GRAVE
  • ROBERT FULTON
  • BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT FULTON.
  • FULTON BLOWING UP A DANISH BRIG
  • JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT AT PHILADELPHIA
  • FULTON'S FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH PADDLE-WHEELS
  • THE "DEMOLOGOS," OR "FULTON THE FIRST
  • THE CLERMONT
  • ELI WHITNEY
  • WHITNEY WATCHING THE COTTON-GIN
  • THE COTTON-GIN
  • ELIAS HOWE
  • BIRTHPLACE OF S.F.B. MORSE, BUILT 1775
  • S.F.B. MORSE
  • UNDER SIDE OF A MODERN SWITCHBOARD, SHOWING 2,000 WIRES
  • THE FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT, AS EXHIBITED IN 1837 BY MORSE
  • THE MODERN MORSE TELEGRAPH
  • MORSE MAKING HIS OWN INSTRUMENT.
  • TRAIN TELEGRAPH- THE MESSAGE TRANSMITTED BY INDUCTION FROM THE MOVING TRAIN TO THE SINGLE WIRE
  • INTERIOR OF A CAR ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD SHOWING THE METHOD OF OPERATING THE TRAIN TELEGRAPH
  • DIAGRAM SHOWING THE METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING FROM A MOVING TRAIN BY INDUCTION
  • MORSE IN HIS STUDY
  • THE SIPHON RECORDER FOR RECEIVING CABLE MESSAGES-OFFICE OF THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY, 1 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK
  • No. 5 WEST TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK, WHERE MORSE LIVED FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED.
  • CALENDERS HEATED INTERNALLY BY STEAM, FOR SPREADING INDIA RUBBER INTO SHEETS OR UPON CLOTH, CALLED THE "CHAFFE MACHINE""
  • CHARLES GOODYEAR'S EXHIBITION OF HARD INDIA-RUBBER GOODS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM, ENGLAND
  • COUNCIL MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION, 1851,
  • GRANDE MEDAILLE D' HONNEUR, EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1855,
  • JOHN ERICSSON'S BIRTH PLACE AND MONUMENT
  • THE NOVELTY LOCOMOTIVE, BUILT BY ERICSSON TO COMPETE WITH STEPHENSON'S ROCKET, 1829,
  • ERICSSON ON HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND, AGED TWENTY-THREE
  • MRS. JOHN ERICSSON, NÉE AMELIA BYAM.

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