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قراءة كتاب Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science
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Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science
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MARVELS OF
SCIENTIFIC INVENTION
AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT IN NON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE
OF THE INVENTION OF GUNS, TORPEDOES, SUBMARINES
MINES, UP-TO-DATE SMELTING, FREEZING, COLOUR
PHOTOGRAPHY, AND MANY OTHER RECENT
DISCOVERIES OF SCIENCE
BY
OF THE INVENTION OF GUNS, TORPEDOES, SUBMARINES
MINES, UP-TO-DATE SMELTING, FREEZING, COLOUR
PHOTOGRAPHY, AND MANY OTHER RECENT
DISCOVERIES OF SCIENCE
BY
THOMAS W. CORBIN
AUTHOR OF
"ENGINEERING OF TO-DAY," "MECHANICAL INVENTIONS
OF TO-DAY," "THE ROMANCE OF SUBMARINE
ENGINEERING," &c., &c.
WITH 32 ILLUSTRATIONS & DIAGRAMS
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
LONDON: SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LTD.
1917
"ENGINEERING OF TO-DAY," "MECHANICAL INVENTIONS
OF TO-DAY," "THE ROMANCE OF SUBMARINE
ENGINEERING," &c., &c.
WITH 32 ILLUSTRATIONS & DIAGRAMS
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
LONDON: SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LTD.
1917
CONTENTS
| chapter | page | |
| I. | Digging with Dynamite | 9 |
| II. | Measuring Electricity | 22 |
| III. | The Fuel of the Future | 42 |
| IV. | Some Valuable Electrical Processes | 55 |
| V. | Machine-made Cold | 67 |
| VI. | Scientific Inventions at Sea | 78 |
| VII. | The Gyro-Compass | 90 |
| VIII. | Torpedoes and Submarine Mines | 98 |
| IX. | Gold Recovery | 109 |
| X. | Intense Heat | 123 |
| XI. | An Artificial Coal Mine | 137 |
| XII. | The Most Striking Invention of Recent Times | 149 |
| XIII. | How Pictures can be sent by Wire | 176 |
| XIV. | A Wonderful Example of Science and Skill | 191 |
| XV. | Scientific Testing and Measuring | 198 |
| XVI. | Colour Photography | 212 |
| XVII. | How Science aids the Stricken Collier | 220 |
| XVIII. | How Science helps to keep us well | 231 |
| XIX. | Modern Artillery | 236 |
| Appendix | 245 | |
| Index | 247 | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| A Huge Lamp | Frontispiece |
| facing page | |
| First Effect of the Dynamite | 16 |
| A Fine Crop | 24 |
| Apple-tree planted by |