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قراءة كتاب Historic Inventions

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دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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By
RUPERT S. HOLLAND
Author of “Historic Boyhoods,” “Historic Girlhoods,” “Builders of United Italy,” etc.

PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

To
J. W. H.

I.	Gutenberg and the Printing Press	9
II.	Palissy and His Enamel	42
III.	Galileo and the Telescope	53
IV.	Watt and the Steam-Engine	70
V.	Arkwright and the Spinning-Jenny	84
VI.	Whitney and the Cotton-Gin	96
VII.	Fulton and the Steamboat	111
VIII.	Davy and the Safety-Lamp	126
IX.	Stephenson and the Locomotive	140
X.	Morse and the Telegraph	168
XI.	McCormick and the Reaper	189
XII.	Howe and the Sewing-Machine	206
XIII.	Bell and the Telephone	215
XIV.	Edison and the Electric Light	233
XV.	Marconi and the Wireless Telegraph	261
XVI.	The Wrights and the Airship	273

Gutenberg Takes the First Proof	Frontispiece
Palissy the Potter After an Unsuccessful Experiment	Facing page 46
Galileo’s Telescope	58
Watt First Tests the Power of Steam	72
Sir Richard Arkwright	88
The Inventor of the Cotton Gin	104
The Clermont, the First Steam Packet	120
The Davy Safety Lamp	136
One of the First Locomotives	156
Morse and the First Telegraph	180
The Earliest Reaper	194
Elias Howe’s Sewing-Machine	210
The First Telephone	222