Inventors at Work, with Chapters on DiscoveryIles, George
History
Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery
Iles, George
Inventions -- History; Inventors
R. S. WOODWARD _facing_ 276
Perforated sails for ships 292
Edison phonograph 312
TELEGRAPHONE 314 _and facing_ 314
GRAY TELAUTOGRAPH 315 _and facing_ 318
Hussey’s mower or reaper 321
Mergenthaler linotype, justifying wedges 323
Schuckers’ double-wedge justifier 324
Two wedges partly in contact, and fully in contact 325
Polarized light shows strains in glass 327
Stop-motion 330
Dexter feeding mechanism 331
Schumann’s “Traumerei” in musical score and on Pianola roll 334
Mechanism of Pianola 335
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE 336 _and facing_ 336
Blenkinsop’s locomotive, 1811 345
Notes on loose cards in alphabetical order 350
Sectional bookcase, desk and drawers 351
Burke telegraphic code 353
Burke simplified telegraphic signals 354
Pupin long-distance telephony 367
Water-gauge direct and reversed 370
THOMAS ALVA EDISON _facing_ 374
Cube-root extractor 376
Square-root extractor 377
Sturtevant ventilating and heating apparatus 380
Bicycle suspended from axle 382
Telephones receiving sound through a beam of light 395
Selenium cylinder with reflector 398
Perforated disc yielding sound from light 399
SIR HENRY BESSEMER _facing_ 402
First Bessemer converter and ladle 406
New Ingersoll coal cutter 418
Drill steels 418
SCULPTOR AT WORK WITH PNEUMATIC CHISEL _facing_ 418
Haeseler air-hammer 419
Rock drill used as hammer 420
Little Giant wood-boring machine 420
Water lifted by compressed air 421
Harris system of pumping by compressed air 422
Hardie nozzle for painting by compressed air 423
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