The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical ConquestThompson, Holland
History
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
Thompson, Holland
Inventions -- History; Inventors -- United States
"A List of References on the Life and Inventions of Thomas A. Edison"
may be found in the Division of Bibliography, U. S. Library of Congress
(1916). See also F. L. Dyer and T. C. Martin, "Edison; His Life and
Inventions" (1910), and "Mr. Edison's Reminiscences of the First Central
Station" in "The Electrical Review", vol. XXXVIII. On other
special topics see: F. E. Leupp, "George Westinghouse, His Life and
Achievements" (1918); Elihu Thomson, "Induction of Electric Currents and
Induction Coils" (1891), "Journal of the Franklin Institute", August,
1891; and Alex Dow, "The Production of Electricity by Steam Power"
(1917).
CHAPTER X
Charles C. Turner, "The Romance of Aeronautics" (1912); "The Curtiss
Aviation Book", by Glenn H. Curtiss and Augustus Post (1912); Samuel
Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly, "Langley Memoir on Mechanical
Flight" (Smithsonian Institution, 1911); "Our Atlantic Attempt", by
H. G. Hawker and K. Mackenzie Grieve (1919); "Flying the Atlantic
in Sixteen Hours", by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1920); "Practical
Aeronautics", by Charles B. Hayward, with an Introduction by Orville
Wright (1912); "Aircraft; Its Development in War and Peace", by Evan J.
David (1919). Accounts of the flights across the Atlantic are given in
"The Aerial Year Book and Who's Who in the Air" (1920), and the story
of NC4 is told in "The Flight Across the Atlantic", issued by the
Department of Education, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation (1919).
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