Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 45733-h.htm or 45733-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45733/45733-h/45733-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45733/45733-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/famousmengreatev00morr Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). The oe-ligature has been rendered as separate characters ('oe'). Any text printed using small capitals was converted to all upper-case. The marginal descriptions, which were printed with a bold font, were moved to the head of the paragraph in which they appear and are enclosed by square brackets (example: [=A Bird's-Eye View=]). There are occasionally multiple such notes in a given paragraph. All appear here prior to that paragraph. Footnotes were relocated from the end of page to the end of the paragraph in which they appear. Please see the transcriber's note at the end of this text for a more complete account of any other textual issues and their resolution. [Illustration: THE MARVELOUS PROGRESS OF THE 19TH CENTURY The above symbolic picture, after the master painting of Paul Sinibaldi, explains the secret of the wonderful progress of the past 100 years. The genius of Industry stands in the centre. To her right sits Chemistry; to the left the geniuses of Electricity with the battery, the telephone, the electric light; there also are the geniuses of Navigation with the propeller, and of Literature and Art, all bringing their products to Industry who passes them through the hands of Labor in the foreground to be fashioned for the use of mankind.] The Achievements of One Hundred Years FAMOUS MEN AND GREAT EVENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Embracing Descriptions of the Decisive Battles of the Century and the Great Soldiers Who Fought Them; the Rise and Fall of Nations; the Changes in the Map of the World, and the Causes Which Contributed to Political and Social Revolutions; Discoverers and Discoveries; Explorers of the Tropics and Arctics; Inventors and Their Inventions; the Growth of Literature, Science and Art; the Progress of Religion, Morals and Benevolence in All Civilized Nations. by CHARLES MORRIS, LL. D. Author of "The Aryan Race," "Civilization, Its History, Etc.," "The Greater Republic," Etc. Embellished With Nearly 100 Full-Page Half-Tone Engravings, Illustrating the Greatest Events of the Century, and 100 Portraits of the Most Famous Men in the World.