The Project Gutenberg E-text of Men of Invention and Industry
by Samuel Smiles
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About this eBook
- Author
- Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904
- Title
- Men of Invention and Industry
- Credits
- Produced by Eric Hutton. HTML version by Al Haines.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- T: Technology
- Subject
- Industrial arts -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 725
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/725
- Release Date
- November 1, 1996
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.MEN OF INVENTION AND INDUSTRY — by
- 2.Samuel Smiles
- 3.Contents. — PREFACE — CHAPTER I. — PHINEAS PETT: BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH SHIP-BUILDING. — CHAPTER II. — FRANCIS PETTIT SMITH: PRACTICAL INTRODUCER OF THE SCREW PROPELLER. — CHAPTER III.[1] — JOHN HARRISON: INVENTOR OF THE MARINE CHRONOMETER. — CHAPTER IV. — JOHN LOMBE: INTRODUCER OF THE SILK INDUSTRY INTO ENGLAND. — CHAPTER V. — WILLIAM MURDOCK: HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS. — CHAPTER VI. — FREDERICK KOENIG: INVENTOR OF THE STEAM-PRINTING MACHINE. — CHAPTER VII. — THE WALTERS OF THE TIMES: INVENTION OF THE WALTER PRESS. — CHAPTER VIII. — WILLIAM CLOWES: INTRODUCER OF BOOK-PRINTING BY STEAM. — CHAPTER IX. — CHARLES BIANCONI: A LESSON OF SELF-HELP IN IRELAND. — CHAPTER X. — INDUSTRY IN IRELAND: THROUGH CONNAUGHT AND ULSTER, TO BELFAST. — CHAPTER XI. — SHIPBUILDING IN BELFAST—ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS. — CHAPTER XII. — ASTRONOMERS AND STUDENTS IN HUMBLE LIFE: A NEW CHAPTER IN THE 'PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.'
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