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Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
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STORIES OF INVENTORS
The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers. True Incidents And Personal Experiences
By
RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY
1904
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author and publishers take pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy of
The Scientific American
The Booklovers Magazine
The Holiday Magazine, and
Messrs. Wood & Nathan Company
for the use of a number of illustrations in this book.
From The Scientific American, illustrations facing pages 16, 48, 78, 80, 88, 94, 118, 126, 142, and 162.
From The Booklovers Magazine, illustrations facing pages 184, 190, 194, and 196.
From The Holiday Magazine, illustrations facing pages 100 and 110.
CONTENTS
How Guglielmo Marconi Telegraphs Without Wires
Santos-Dumont and His Air-Ship
How a Fast Train Is Run
How Automobiles Work
The Fastest Steamboats
The Life-Savers and Their Apparatus
Moving Pictures—Some Strange Subjects and How They Were Taken
Bridge Builders and Some of Their Achievements
Submarines in War and Peace
Long-Distance Telephony—What Happens When You Talk into a Telephone Receiver
A Machine That Thinks—A Type-Setting Machine That Makes Mathematical Calculations
How Heat Produces Cold—Artificial Ice-Making
Santos-Dumont and His Air-Ship
How a Fast Train Is Run
How Automobiles Work
The Fastest Steamboats
The Life-Savers and Their Apparatus
Moving Pictures—Some Strange Subjects and How They Were Taken
Bridge Builders and Some of Their Achievements
Submarines in War and Peace
Long-Distance Telephony—What Happens When You Talk into a Telephone Receiver
A Machine That Thinks—A Type-Setting Machine That Makes Mathematical Calculations
How Heat Produces Cold—Artificial Ice-Making
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Marconi Reading a Message Frontispiece
Marconi Station at Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The Wireless Telegraph Station at Glacé Bay
Santos-Dumont Preparing for a Flight
Rounding the Eiffel Tower
The Motor and Basket of "Santos-Dumont No. 9"
Firing a Fast Locomotive
Track Tank
Railroad Semaphore Signals
Thirty Years' Advance in Locomotive Building
The "Lighthouse" of the Rail
A Giant Automobile Mower-Thrasher
An Automobile Buckboard
An Automobile Plow
The Velox, of the British Navy
The Engines of the Arrow
A Life-Saving Crew Drilling
Life-Savers at Work
Biograph Pictures of a Military Hazing
Developing Moving-Picture Films
Building an American Bridge in Burmah
Viaduct Across Canyon Diablo
Beginning an American Bridge in Mid-Africa
Marconi Station at Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The Wireless Telegraph Station at Glacé Bay
Santos-Dumont Preparing for a Flight
Rounding the Eiffel Tower
The Motor and Basket of "Santos-Dumont No. 9"
Firing a Fast Locomotive
Track Tank
Railroad Semaphore Signals
Thirty Years' Advance in Locomotive Building
The "Lighthouse" of the Rail
A Giant Automobile Mower-Thrasher
An Automobile Buckboard
An Automobile Plow
The Velox, of the British Navy
The Engines of the Arrow
A Life-Saving Crew Drilling
Life-Savers at Work
Biograph Pictures of a Military Hazing
Developing Moving-Picture Films
Building an American Bridge in Burmah
Viaduct Across Canyon Diablo
Beginning an American Bridge in Mid-Africa