Stories of Useful Inventions
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Stories of Useful Inventions is a book by S. E. Forman. The preface says the author has given the history of those inventions which are most useful to man in his daily life. The preface says the author has told the story of the Match, the Stove, the Lamp and the Forge, among others.
The text asks readers to think of a world without fire, supposing they woke some bitter cold morning to find that all the fires in the world were out. The Greeks borrowed ideas wherever they could, and in the matter of architecture they borrowed heavily from Egypt, according to the text. In 1861, a telegraph line extended across the continent and connected New York and San Francisco. Thanks to the perseverance and energy of Cyrus W. Field, of New York, the Old World and the New were joined together by a telegraphic cable passing through the waters of the Atlantic.
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- Author
- S. E. Forman
- Pages
- 220
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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