All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements
Forfatter: Frederick A. Talbot
År: 1916
Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD
Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
Sider: 376
UDK: 6(09)
With a Colour Plate and numerous Black-and-White Illustrations.
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Contents
CHAPTER XIII
The Age of Oil . . . . .
The First Oil Well—Controlling the Oil—Pipe Lines
—Distilling Oil—What we get from Oil—Natural Gas and its
Uses— The Coming of the Oil Age.
PAGE
279
CHAPTER XIV
The
Rise of the Motor-propelled Vehicle
The Steam Vehicle and its Limitations— The Invention of
the High-speed Internal Combustion Engines—Petrol as a
Fuel—Early Petrol-driven Cars—Humours of the Early
Self-propelled Carriage Days—The Motor-car Supersedes
the Train as the Speediest Vehicle.
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CHAPTER XV
Animated Pictures _________________________.....
The Illusion of Photographic Animation—The Birth of
the Idea—The Fathers of the Invention—The Coming of the
Celluloid Film—How the Pictures are Made—Recent Deve-
lopments in the Industry.
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CHAPTER XVI
The Sewing Machine................................
The Indispensable Friend of Woman— The Early Efforts
to Supersede Hand-sewing — Who Invented the Sewing
Machine ?— The Work of Howe, Thomas, and Others—Ex-
tension of the Idea to the Sewing of Various Materials—The
Romantic Story of the Popularisation of the Sewing Machine
throughout the World.
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