Men of achievement : Inventors

• Autore: Hubert Philip Gengembre <1852-1925.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Inventors
• Note generali: Originally published: Inventors. New York: bC. Scribner's Sons, 1894.
• Nota di contenuto: MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT - INVENTORS; PREFACE.; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ; CHAPTER II. ROBERT FULTON; CHAPTER III. ELI WHITNEY; CHAPTER IV. ELIAS HOWE; CHAPTER V. SAMUEL F. B. MORSE; CHAPTER VI. CHARLES GOODYEAR; CHAPTER VII. JOHN ERICSSON; CHAPTER VIII. CYRUS HALL McCORMICK; CHAPTER IX. THOMAS A. EDISON; CHAPTER X. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL; CHAPTER XI. AMERICAN INVENTORS, PAST AND PRESENT; James M. Townsend; E. L. Drake; Alvan Clark; John Fitch; Oliver Evans; Amos Whittemore; Thomas Blanchard; Richard M. Hoe; Thomas W. Harvey; C. L. Sholes; B. B. Hotchkiss; Charles F. Brush ; Rudolph EickemeyerGeorge Westinghouse, Jr.; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FULL-PAGE; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN; DEPARTURE OF THE CLERMONT ON HER FIRST VOYAGE; CHARLES GOODYEAR; JOHN ERICSSON; CYRUS HALL McCORMICK; THOMAS A. EDISON; EDISON IN HIS LABORATORY; PROFESSOR BELL SENDING THE FIRST TELEPHONE MESSAGE FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO; ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT; THE FRANKLIN STOVE; FRANKLIN'S BIRTHPLACE , BOSTON; FRANKLIN ENTERING PHILADELPHIA; THE FRANKLIN PENNY; FRANKLIN 'S GRAVE; ROBERT FULTON; BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT FULTON; FULTON BLOWING UP A DANISH BRIG; JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT AT PHILADELPHIA ; FULTON'S FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH PADDLE-WHEELSTHE "DEMOLOGOS," OR "FULTON THE FIRST; THE CLERMONT; ELI WHITNEY; WHITNEY WATCHING THE COTTON-GIN; THE COTTON-GIN; ELIAS HOWE; BIRTHPLACE OF S. F. B. MORSE, BUILT 1775; S. F. B. MORSE; UNDER SIDE OF A MODERN SWITCHBOARD, SHOWING 2,000 WIRES; THE FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT, AS EXHIBITED IN 1837 BY MORSE; THE MODERN MORSE TELEGRAPH; MORSE MAKING HIS OWN INSTRUMENT; TRAIN TELEGRAPH- THE MESSAGE TRANSMITTED BY INDUCTION FROM THE MOVING TRAIN TO THE SINGLE WIRE ; INTERIOR OF A CAR ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD SHOWING THE METHOD OF OPERATING THE TRAIN TELEGRAPHDIAGRAM SHOWING THE METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING FROM A MOVING TRAIN BY INDUCTION; MORSE IN HIS STUDY; THE SIPHON RECORDER FOR RECEIVING CABLE MESSAGES-OFFICE OF THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY, 1 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK; No. 5 WEST TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK, WHERE MORSE LIVED FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED; CALENDERS HEATED INTERNALLY BY STEAM, FOR SPREADING INDIA RUBBER INTO SHEETS OR UPON CLOTH, CALLED THE "CHAFFE MACHINE"" ; CHARLES GOODYEAR'S EXHIBITION OF HARD INDIA-RUBBER GOODS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM, ENGLANDCOUNCIL MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION, 1851,; GRANDE MEDAILLE D' HONNEUR, EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1855,; JOHN ERICSSON'S BIRTH PLACE AND MONUMENT; THE NOVELTY LOCOMOTIVE, BUILT BY ERICSSON TO COMPETE WITH STEPHENSON'S ROCKET, 1829,; ERICSSON ON HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND, AGED TWENTY-THREE; MRS. JOHN ERICSSON, NÉE AMELIA BYAM; EXTERIOR VIEW OF ERICSSON'S HOUSE, No. 36 BEACH STREET, NEW YORK, 1890,; SOLAR-ENGINE ADAPTED TO THE USE OF HOTAIR; SECTIONAL VIEW OF MONITOR THROUGH TURRET AND PILOT-HOUSE ; THE ORIGINAL MONITOR
• Titolo autorizzato: Men of achievement
• ISBN: 1-58218-238-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811288903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II