Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era: A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progressBoyd, James P. (James Penny)
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Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era: A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
Boyd, James P. (James Penny)
Inventions; Progress
Puck 19
Old Franklin Electrical Machine 20
Leyden Jar 22
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia 23
Induction Coil 25
Magnetic Fields of Force 26
Daniell’s Cells 27
Morse Telegraph and Battery 27
Samuel Finley Breese Morse 28
Cyrus W. Field 28
Ocean Cable 29
Great Eastern laying an Ocean Cable 31
A String Telephone 32
Thomas Alva Edison. _Full page_ 32
A Graphophone 35
A Dynamo 37
The Golden Candlestick 39
An Ancient Lamp 39
A Tallow Dip 40
Modern Lamp 40
Electric Arc Light 43
Electric Locomotive. From _Electrical Age_ 45
Electric Railway—Third Rail System 47
Geissler’s Tubes 49
Sciagraph or Shadow Picture 50
An August Morning with Farragut 56
British Battleship Majestic 57
French Battleship Magenta 57
German Battleship Woerth 58
Italian Battleship Sardegna 59
Nelson’s Flagship Victory 60
Constitution (1812) under Sail. Permission of the artist.
_Full page_ 61
Side View of Constitution. _Full page_ 63
The U. S. Steamship Oregon. Copyright by W. H. Rau. _Full page_ 65
Action between Monitor and Merrimac 66
The Turbinia—Fastest Craft afloat. Permission of S. S. McClure
Co. 67
Engine of U. S. Steamship Powhatan, A. D. 1849. _Full page_ 68
Engine of U. S. Steamer Ericcson 69
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