The Story of Great InventionsBurns, Elmer Ellsworth
History
The Story of Great Inventions
Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
Inventions -- History
49--A SERIES-WOUND DYNAMO
50--A SHUNT-WOUND DYNAMO
51--A COMPOUND-WOUND DYNAMO
52--ONE OF EDISON'S FIRST DYNAMOS
53--A DYNAMO MOUNTED ON THE TRUCK OF A RAILWAY CAR
54--FIRST ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
55--FIRST EDISON ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
56--EDISON'S FIRST PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE
57--FIRST COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC RAILWAY
58--EDISON, AMERICA'S GREATEST INVENTOR, AT WORK IN HIS
LABORATORY
59--EDISON'S FAMOUS HORSESHOE PAPER-FILAMENT LAMP OF
60--FIRST COMMERCIAL EDISON ELECTRIC-LIGHTING PLANT; INSTALLED
ON THE STEAMSHIP "COLUMBIA" IN MAY,
61--A TELEGRAPH SOUNDER
62--MORSE'S FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT
63--A TELEGRAPHIC CIRCUIT WITH RELAY AND SOUNDER
64--A SIMPLE TELEGRAPHIC CIRCUIT
65--FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT USED FOR COMMERCIAL WORK
66--HOW TWO MESSAGES ARE SENT OVER ONE WIRE AT THE SAME TIME
67--HOW TWO MESSAGES ARE SENT OVER ONE WIRE AT THE SAME TIME.
BRIDGE METHOD
68--FIRST BELL TELEPHONE RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER
69--A TELEPHONE RECEIVER
70--TWO RECEIVERS USED AS A COMPLETE TELEPHONE
71--CARBON-DUST TRANSMITTER
72--THE PHONAUTOGRAPH, A FORERUNNER OF THE PHONOGRAPH
73--EDISON'S FIRST PHONOGRAPH AND A MODERN INSTRUMENT
74 to--THE FOUR-CYCLE GAS-ENGINE
78--TWO-CYCLE GAS-ENGINE. CRANK AND CONNECTING-ROD ARE ENCLOSED
WITH THE PISTON
79--SELDEN "EXPLOSION BUGGY," FORERUNNER OF THE MODERN
AUTOMOBILE
80--SOME EARLY LOCOMOTIVES
81--HOW A LOCOMOTIVE WORKS
82--HERO'S ENGINE
83--AN UNDERSHOT WATER-WHEEL WITH CURVED BLADES
84--AN OVERSHOT WATER-WHEEL
85--DE LAVAL STEAM-TURBINE
86--A MODERN STEAM-TURBINE WITH TOP CASING RAISED SHOWING BLADES
87--DIAGRAM OF TURBINE SHOWN IN FIG.
88--A STEAM-TURBINE THAT RUNS A DYNAMO GENERATING 14,000
ELECTRICAL HORSE-POWER
89--BRITISH ARMY AIR-SHIP "NULLI SECUNDUS" READY FOR FLIGHT
90--BASKET, MOTOR, AND PROPELLER OF THE BRITISH ARMY AIR-SHIP
"NULLI SECUNDUS"
91--A ZEPPELIN AIR-SHIP
92--COUNT ZEPPELIN'S "DEUTSCHLAND," THE FIRST AIR-SHIP IN
REGULAR PASSENGER SERVICE
93--THE BALDWIN AIR-SHIP USED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY
94--IN FULL FLIGHT
95--WRIGHT AIR-SHIP IN FLIGHT
96--HOW THE WRIGHT AIR-SHIP IS KEPT AFLOAT
97--THE SEAT AND MOTOR OF THE WRIGHT AEROPLANE
98--THE BLÉRIOT MONOPLANE
99--THE "PLUNGER"
100--U. S. SUBMARINE "SHARK" READY FOR A DIVE
101--FIRST SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTED IN THE UNITED STATES. IT WENT
TO THE BOTTOM WITH SEVEN MEN, WHO WERE DROWNED
102--HOW MEN IN A SUBMARINE SEE WHEN UNDER THE WATER
103--A TOP THAT SPINS ON A STRING
104--A CAR THAT RUNS ON ONE RAIL
105--MANUFACTURING DIAMONDS--FIRST OPERATION
106--MANUFACTURING DIAMONDS--SECOND OPERATION
107--MANUFACTURING DIAMONDS--THIRD OPERATION
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