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PREFACE
11:34 -
CH.1 INVENTIVE PROGRESS
31:00 -
CH.2 NATURAL POWER
43:23 -
CH.3 STORAGE OF POWER
27:20 -
CH.4 ARTIFICIAL POWER
26:35 -
CH.5 ROAD AND RAIL
43:53 -
CH.6 SHIPS
28:29 -
CH.7 AGRICULTURE
31:30 -
CH.8 MINING
40:00 -
CH.9 DOMESTIC
31:11 -
CH.10 ELECTRIC MESSAGES, ETC.
24:14 -
CH.11 WARFARE
18:06 -
CH.12 MUSIC
16:05 -
CH.13 ART AND NEWS
15:10 -
CH.14 INVENTION AND COLLECTIVISM
13:35
Twentieth Century Inventions (1901) is a public domain work.
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At the opening of the twentieth century, George Sutherland considers which inventions are likely to become useful parts of everyday life. Published in 1901, this nonfiction forecast surveys power, transport, agriculture, mining, household technology and electric communication. Sutherland treats invention as a gradual process shaped by public needs, earlier experiments and the conditions that allow an idea to succeed. His preface explains how years of watching industrial developments informed that approach.
The examples bring this broad argument down to practical problems. Sutherland describes using wireless signals to keep clocks on a shared standard of time, and explores whether electrical measurements could help miners trace mineral deposits. His discussion connects instruments, commercial interests and the limits of scientific explanation. Readers interested in the history of technology can examine the reasoning behind these predictions and see how an observer in 1901 imagined the relationship between new machinery and social progress.
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- George Sutherland
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- Pages
- 178
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