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Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century

by Robert Routledge
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13th edition published in 1900 includes illustrations. From the preface, "In the following pages an attempt has been made to present a popular account of remarkable discoveries and inventions which distinguish the XIXth century." Chapter headings include: steam engines, iron, tools, railways, steam navigation, ships of war, fire-arms, torpedoes, ship canals, iron bridges, printing machines, hydraulic power, pneumatic dispatch, rock boring, light, the spectroscope, Roentgen's X Rays, sight, electricity, the electric telegraph, lighthouses, photography, printing processes, recording instruments, aquaria, gold & diamonds, new metals, india-rubber, gutta-percha, anesthetics, explosives, mineral combustibles, coal-gas, coal-tar colours, and the greatest discovery of the age. Cover illustration of electric chronograph by John Gray McKendrick (Life in Motion, or, Muscle and Nerve[1].) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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13th edition published in 1900 includes illustrations. From the preface, "In the following pages an attempt has been made to present a popular account of remarkable discoveries and inventions which distinguish the XIXth century." Chapter headings include: steam engines, iron, tools, railways, steam navigation, ships of war, fire-arms, torpedoes, ship canals, iron bridges, printing machines, hydraulic power, pneumatic dispatch, rock boring, light, the spectroscope, Roentgen's X Rays, sight, electricity, the electric telegraph, lighthouses, photography, printing processes, recording instruments, aquaria, gold & diamonds, new metals, india-rubber, gutta-percha, anesthetics, explosives, mineral combustibles, coal-gas, coal-tar colours, and the greatest discovery of the age. Cover illustration of electric chronograph by John Gray McKendrick (Life in Motion, or, Muscle and Nerve[1].) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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