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Edward Everett Hale. Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends
Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends
Table of Contents
PREFACE
STORIES OF INVENTION. TOLD BY INVENTORS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. ARCHIMEDES
III. FRIAR BACON
OF THE PARENTS AND BIRTH OF FRYER BACON, AND HOW HE ADDICTED HIMSELF TO LEARNING
HOW FRYER BACON MADE A BRAZEN HEAD TO SPEAK, BY THE WHICH HE WOULD HAVE WALLED ENGLAND ABOUT WITH BRASS
HOW FRYER BACON BY HIS ART TOOK A TOWN, WHEN THE KING HAD LAIN BEFORE IT THREE MONTHS, WITHOUT DOING IT ANY HURT
HOW FRYER BACON BURNT HIS BOOKS OF MAGIC AND GAVE HIMSELF TO THE STUDY OF DIVINITY ONLY; AND HOW HE TURNED ANCHORITE
HOW VIRGILIUS WAS SET TO SCHOOL
HOWE THE EMPEROR ASKED COUNSEL OF VIRGILIUS, HOW THE NIGHT RUNNERS AND ILL DOERS MIGHT BE RID-OUT OF THE STREETS
HOW VIRGILIUS MADE A LAMP THAT AT ALL TIMES BURNED
IV. BENVENUTO CELLINI
LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI
BENVENUTO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
V. BERNARD PALISSY
BERNARD PALISSY THE POTTER
VI. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
FRANKLIN'S METHOD OF GROWING BETTER
MUSICAL GLASSES
VII. THEORISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH
EDGEWORTH'S TELEGRAPH
[DESCRIBED BY HIMSELF.]
MR. EDGEWORTH'S TELEGRAPH IN IRELAND
[DESCRIBED BY HIS DAUGHTER.]
(Presented, Oct. 6, 1796.)
MR. EDGEWORTH'S MACHINE
MORE OF MR. EDGEWORTH'S FANCIES
JACK THE DARTER
A ONE-WHEELED CHAISE
VIII. JAMES WATT
THE NEWCOMEN ENGINE
JAMES WATT AND THE STEAM-ENGINE
THE SEPARATE CONDENSER
COMPLETING THE INVENTION
WATT MAKES HIS MODEL
IX. ROBERT FULTON
X. GEORGE STEPHENSON AND THE LOCOMOTIVE
GEORGE STEPHENSON
XI. ELI WHITNEY
ELI WHITNEY
XII. JAMES NASMYTH
THE STEAM-HAMMER
JAMES NASMYTH
XIII. SIR HENRY BESSEMER
THE AGE OF STEEL
BESSEMER'S FAMILY
HENRY BESSEMER
STAMPED PAPER
GOLD PAINT
BESSEMER STEEL
XIV. THE LAST MEETING
GOODYEAR
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX
MR. HALE'S BOY BOOKS
EDWARD E. HALE'S WRITINGS
EDWARD E. HALE'S WRITINGS
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Edward Everett Hale
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The Colonel said he believed that was true. And this was a good illustration of what one persevering and intelligent man can do in bringing in the larger life and nobler purpose of the Kingdom of Heaven. Such a man makes men cease from labor, which is always irksome, and work with God. This is always ennobling.
"I am ashamed to say that I do not know what a cut-off is," said Alice, who, like Seth, had been trained to "confess ignorance."
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