DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Written by Edward Cressy
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
in 1914
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- INVENTIONS
- WATERWHEELS
- ELECTRICITY
- STEELMAKING
- ENGINEERING
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Front cover
Contents
- The revival of water power
- Coal, gas, and petroleum
- Steam power
- Gas, Petrol, and oil engines
- Generation and transmission of electricity
- Electric lighting and heating
- Speed and economy in factory and workshop
- Foundry and forge
- The electric furnace and its applications
- The artificial production of cold and its applications
- Soil and crops
- Railways
- Electric traction
- Motor-cars
- Modern ships
- The conquest of the air
- Wireless telegraphy
- Ships of war and their weapons
- Some applications of photography
- Radium, electricity, and matter