All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements

_________________ __________________ 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 ________ _________ ____________________