قراءة كتاب The Romance of Industry and Invention
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 2
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CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| IRON AND STEEL. | |
| Pioneers of the Iron and Steel Industry—Sir Henry Bessemer—Sir William Siemens—Werner von Siemens—The Krupps of Essen | 9 |
CHAPTER II. |
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| POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. | |
| Josiah Wedgwood and the Wedgwood Ware—Worcester Porcelain | 51 |
CHAPTER III. |
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| THE SEWING MACHINE. | |
| Thomas Saint—Thimonnier—Hunt—Elias Howe—Wilson—Morey—Singer | 72 |
CHAPTER IV. |
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| WOOL AND COTTON. | |
| Wool.—What is Wool?—Chemical Composition—Fibre—Antiquity of Shepherd Life—Varieties of Sheep—Introduction into Australia—Spanish Merino—Wool Wealth of Australia—Imports and Exports of Wool and Woollen Produce—Woollen Manufacture | 81 |
| Cotton.—Cotton Plant in the East—Mandeville's Fables about Cotton—Cotton in Persia, Arabia, and Egypt—Columbus finds Cotton-yarn and Thread in 1492—In Africa—Manufacture of Cloth in England—The American Cotton Plant | 91 |
CHAPTER V. |
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| GOLD AND DIAMONDS. | |
| Gold.—How widely distributed—Alluvial Gold-mining—Vein Gold-mining—Nuggets—Treatment of Ore and Gold in the Transvaal—Story of South African Gold-fields—Gold-production of the World—Johannesburg the Golden City—Coolgardie Gold-fields—Bayley's discovery of Gold there | 102 |
| Diamonds.—Composition—Diamond-cutting—Diamond-mining—Famous Diamonds—Cecil J. Rhodes and the Kimberley Mines | 135 |
CHAPTER VI. |
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| BIG GUNS, SMALL-ARMS, AND AMMUNITION. | |
| Woolwich | |