Great Inventions and Discoveries
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Great Inventions and Discoveries is a book by Willis Duff Piercy. The contents list gives, among others, The Printing Press, The Steam Engine, Electricity: The Telegraph and the Telephone, The Friction Match and Photography. The text says Secretary Seward pays this tribute to invention: the exercise of the inventive faculty is the nearest akin to the Creator of any faculty possessed by the human mind.
The text quotes Charles Kingsley as saying that, except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book, a message to us from the dead. The text says that from the earliest times until nearly the middle of the last century the cutting of grain was done by means of a hand sickle or curved reaping-hook. The text says it is concerned not with reaping in art, literature, or law, but with the reaper as a machine, a concrete thing, a tool, an instrument of civilization.
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- Author
- Willis Duff Piercy
- Pages
- 124
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
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