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Men of achievement : Inventors.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Scituate, Mass. :
Digital Scanning,
2001.
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| Colección: | Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.