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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viii List of Illustrations
FACING PAGE
The First Parson’s Turbo-Electric Generation Station . 212
The First Incandescent Electric Lamp, Invented by
Sir Joseph Swan _________________________...... 224
The Edison Pointolite—the Latest Development in
Electric Light .............................224
One Development of Electric Lighting . . . 228
A British Military Biplane_____________________240
A German Zeppelin _____________________________....... 240
Making a Fertiliser _________________________...... . 266
Making Nitric Acid for Fertilisers _________________.... 266
Food from the Air _____________________________....... 272
The First Oil Well in Pennyslvania, 1859 . . . 288
Butler’s Tri-car_____________________________306
The First British-built Motor Car .... 306
Cugnot’s Steam Power Car _____________________..... 320
Murdock’s Motor Car_________________________320
The Camera with which Moving Pictures are Taken . 336
Edison’s Projector for Throwing Pictures on the Screen. 336
A Section of Kinematograph Film_________________336
A Trick Film__________________________________
A “ Ghost ” Film...................................
The Singer No. i, Mounted on its own Packing Case for
Working the Treadle ___________________________...... 352
Model of the Thimmonier Sewing Machine . . .3=52
1851-1917..........................................352
The First Sewing Machine Invented by Thomas Saint, 1790 364
Singer Machine with Twelve Needles .... 364
Two Singer Machines for Making Buttonholes . . 364
Singer Machine for Sewing Sweat Leathers in Bowler
Hats.............................................364
A Singer Machine for Closing up Bags when They are Full 368
Singer Machine for Over-Edging Lace Curtains . . 368
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