The Romance of Modern Invention
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Wireless Telegraphy
32:57 -
High-speed Telegraphy
17:40 -
The Telephone
23:56 -
The Phonograph
29:20 -
The Telautograph
15:12 -
Modern Artillery - Rifles, Machine guns
35:48 -
Modern Artillery - Heavy Ordnance, Exploxives, In the Gun Factory
37:30 -
Dirigible Torpedoes
23:25 -
Submarine Boats
40:01 -
Animated Pictures
26:10 -
The Great Paris Telescope
20:35 -
Photographing the Invisible
17:47 -
Solar Motors
11:12 -
Liquid Air
15:51 -
Horseless Carriages
16:43 -
Horseless Carriages - Types of Car
40:10 -
High-Speed Railways
20:16 -
Sea Expresses
16:29 -
Mechanical Flight
31:39 -
Type-setting by Machinery
22:05 -
Photography in Colours
22:43 -
Lighting
23:34
The Romance of Modern Invention (1907) is a public domain work.
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A kite, a wire and a receiver help explain how Marconi's signals crossed the Atlantic. Archibald Williams uses such practical details to introduce young readers to inventions that were reshaping communication, transport and industry. This 1907 volume explains wireless telegraphy alongside telephones, sound recording, solar motors, motor cars and mechanical flight. Its chapters use familiar comparisons to make physical principles understandable, including an account of the ether as scientists of the period conceived it.
The discussion of moving pictures brings the reader close to the machinery: film pauses for exposure, shutters block the lens during movement, and cameras and projectors serve different tasks. Williams also follows the handling and development of film and the organisation of a company showing pictures around the world. Read today, the book offers a historical view of both invention and the effort to explain new technology to a broad audience.
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- Archibald Williams
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