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قراءة كتاب Every-day Science: Volume VI. The Conquest of Nature
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Every-day Science: Volume VI. The Conquest of Nature
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p. 316.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| A PRIMITIVE USE OF THE ANIMAL MACHINE THAT IS STILL IN VOGUE IN MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | Frontispiece | |
| HORSE AND CATTLE POWER | Facing p. | 32 |
| CRANES AND DERRICKS | " | 38 |
| A BELGIAN MILK-WAGON | " | 56 |
| TWO APPARATUSES FOR THE UTILIZATION OF ANIMAL POWER | " | 60 |
| WINDMILLS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TYPES | " | 68 |
| WATER WHEELS | " | 72 |
| HYDRAULIC PRESS AND HYDRAULIC CAPSTAN | " | 76 |
| THOMAS SAVERY'S STEAM ENGINE | " | 86 |
| DIAGRAMS OF EARLY ATTEMPTS TO UTILIZE THE POWER OF STEAM | " | 88 |
| A MODEL OF THE NEWCOMEN ENGINE | " | 92 |
| WATT'S EARLIEST TYPE OF PUMPING-ENGINE | " | 96 |
| WATT'S ROTATIVE ENGINE | " | 100 |
| JAMES WATT | " | 108 |
| OLD IDEAS AND NEW APPLIED TO BOILER CONSTRUCTION | " | 114 |
| COMPOUND ENGINES | " | 118 |
| ROTARY ENGINES | " | 122 |
| THE ORIGINAL PARSONS' TURBINE ENGINE AND THE RECORD-BREAKING SHIP FOR WHICH IT IS RESPONSIBLE | " | 128 |
| GAS AND OIL ENGINES | " | 136 |
| AN ELECTRIC TRAIN AND THE DYNAMO THAT PROPELS IT | " | 174 |
| WILDE'S SEPARATELY EXCITED DYNAMO | " | 178 |
| THE EVOLUTION OF THE DYNAMO | " | 180 |
| VIEW IN ONE OF THE POWER HOUSES AT NIAGARA | " | 186 |
| ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS | " | 198 |
| THOMAS A. EDISON AND THE DYNAMO THAT GENERATED THE FIRST COMMERCIAL INCANDESCENT LIGHT | " | 228 |
| A FLINT-AND-STEEL OUTFIT, AND A MINER'S STEEL MILL | " | 248 |
| THE LOCOMOTIVE "PUFFING BILLY" AND A MODERN COLLIERY TROLLEY | " | 258 |
THE CONQUEST OF NATURE
In the earlier volumes we have been concerned with the growth of knowledge. For the most part the scientific delvers whose efforts have held our attention have been tacitly unmindful, or even explicitly contemptuous, of the influence upon practical life of the phenomena to