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Holland Thompson. The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
Table of Contents
THE AGE OF INVENTION
CHAPTER I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HIS TIMES
CHAPTER II. ELI WHITNEY AND THE COTTON GIN
CHAPTER III. STEAM IN CAPTIVITY
CHAPTER IV. SPINDLE, LOOM, AND NEEDLE IN NEW ENGLAND
CHAPTER V. THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
CHAPTER VI. AGENTS OF COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER VII. THE STORY OF RUBBER
CHAPTER VIII. PIONEERS OF THE MACHINE SHOP
CHAPTER IX. THE FATHERS OF ELECTRICITY
CHAPTER X. THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
GENERAL
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
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Holland Thompson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Benjamin Franklin's work was done. He was now an old man of eighty-two summers and his feeble body was racked by a painful malady. Yet he kept his face towards the morning. About a hundred of his letters, written after this time, have been preserved. These letters show no retrospection, no looking backward. They never mention "the good old times." As long as he lived, Franklin looked forward. His interest in the mechanical arts and in scientific progress seems never to have abated. He writes in October, 1787, to a friend in France, describing his experience with lightning conductors and referring to the work of David Rittenhouse, the celebrated astronomer of Philadelphia. On the 31st of May in the following year he is writing to the Reverend John Lathrop of Boston:
"I have long been impressed with the same sentiments you so well express, of the growing felicity of mankind, from the improvement in philosophy, morals, politics, and even the conveniences of common living, and the invention of new and useful utensils and instruments; so that I have sometimes wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. For invention and improvement are prolific, and beget more of their kind. The present progress is rapid. Many of great importance, now unthought of, will, before that period, be produced."
