Inventions in the centuryDoolittle, William H. (William Henry)
History
Inventions in the century
Doolittle, William H. (William Henry)
Inventions
Theories and Definitions.--Franklin’s and a Modern One.--
Varieties of the Force.--Generation.--Dynamic Energy.--
Discoveries before the Nineteenth Century.--Magnetism and
Electricity.--Fathers of the Science.--Doctor Gilbert.--Otto
von Guericke.--Sir Isaac Newton.--Gray.--Dufay.--Professor
Muschenbroeck.--Cuneus.--Charles Morrison.--Franklin and
Galvani.--Volta.--The Door to Nineteenth Century Inventions
then Opened.--Fabroni.--Sir Humphry Davy, Wollaston, Nicholson,
and Carlisle.--Ritter Followed--Electrolysis.--Faraday and its
Laws.--Davy and the Electric Light.--Batteries.--Daniell.--
Grove.--Bunsen.--Brilliant Discoveries from 1800 to 1820.--
Oersted, Schweigger.--Magnetising Helix.--Indicators.--Arago
and Davy.--Ampère’s Discoveries.--Sturgeon and the first
Electro-Magnet, 1825.--Telegraphy.--Gauss, Weber, Schilling.--
Professor Barlow’s Demonstration that Telegraphy was
Impracticable.--Joseph Henry.--Powerful Magnets.--Modern and
Ancient Telegraphy of Various Kinds.--The Third Decade.--George
Simon Ohm.--Steinheil.--Telegraph of Morse, Vail, Dana, Gale.--
Wheatstone.--U.S. Supreme Court on Morse System.--His Alphabet
and Submarine Telegraph.--Michael Faraday and Science of
Magnets.--Steam and Magneto-Dynamo Machines.--Chemical Affinity
and Electricity.--Helmholtz, Faraday, Henry, and Pixii.--
Ruhmkorff Coil.--Page.--Electrical Light.--Decomposition of
Water.--Professor Nollet.--First Practical Electric Light
Shone on the Sea, 1858.--Faraday and Holmes.--Lighthouse
Illumination.--Dr. W. Siemens.--Wilde’s Machine.--Other
Powerful Magnetic Machines.--Field Magnets.--Z. Gramme.--
The Various Ways and Means of Developing Electric Light.--
Geissler Tubes.--First House Lighted in America.--Moses
G. Farmer.--Jablochoff’s Candle.--French Regulators.--Outdoor
and Indoor Illumination.--Siemens, Farmer, Brush, Maxim,
Westinghouse, Edison, Swan, Lane--Fox and Others.--Arc Lamps
of Heffner von Alteneck.--Ocean Cables.--Cyrus W. Field.--John
Bright’s Expression.--Weak Currents.--Thomson’s Remedy.--Mirror
Galvanometer.--Centennial Exhibition and the Telephone.--
Alexander Graham Bell, 1875.--The Telephone and Helmholtz’
Theory of Tone.--Scott’s Phonautograph.--Page’s Production of
Galvanic Music and Researches of Reis.--Its Slow Growth.--The
Ideas of Faraday and Henry still the Basis of the Great
Machines.--“Lines of Force.”--Electric Railway.--Storage
Batteries.--Dynamos.--First Railway at Berlin, 1879.--Then
Saxony, Paris, London, New York.--Telpherage by Professor
Jenkin.--Problems Solved.--Electrical Magicians.--Edison and
Tesla.--Recent Improvements in Telegraphy.--The Talks Both Ways
at Same Time and Multiplied.--Printing Systems by Types and
Otherwise.--Electrical Elevators.--Microphone.--Ticks of a
Watch and the Tread of a Fly Recorded.--Musical Sounds from
Minerals and Other Substances.--Signalling and Other
Appliances.--The X Rays.--Wireless Telegraphy. 111
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