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- the Romance of Industry and Invention
- ROBERT COCHRANE
- PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1897
- PREFACE.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CONTENTS.
- ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY AND INVENTION.
- CHAPTER I. IRON AND STEEL.
- BESSEMER STEEL.
- SIR HENRY BESSEMER.
- SIR CHARLES WILLIAM SIEMENS AND THE SIEMENS PROCESS.
- KRUPP'S IRON AND STEEL WORKS AT ESSEN.
- SIR HENRY BESSEMER.
- SIR CHARLES WILLIAM SIEMENS AND THE SIEMENS PROCESS.
- KRUPP'S IRON AND STEEL WORKS AT ESSEN.
- BESSEMER STEEL.
- CHAPTER II. POTTERY AND PORCELAIN.
- WORCESTER PORCELAIN.
- CHAPTER III. THE SEWING-MACHINE.
- CHAPTER IV. WOOL AND COTTON.
- WOOL.
- COTTON.
- COTTON.
- WOOL.
- CHAPTER V. GOLD AND DIAMONDS.
- NUGGETS.
- METHODS OF MINING.
- TREATMENT OF ORE AND GOLD IN THE TRANSVAAL.
- STORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD-FIELDS.
- JOHANNESBURG—THE GOLDEN.
- GOLD-FIELDS OF COOLGARDIE.
- DIAMONDS.
- THE HON. CECIL J. RHODES, THE DIAMOND KING.
- METHODS OF MINING.
- TREATMENT OF ORE AND GOLD IN THE TRANSVAAL.
- STORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD-FIELDS.
- JOHANNESBURG—THE GOLDEN.
- GOLD-FIELDS OF COOLGARDIE.
- DIAMONDS.
- THE HON. CECIL J. RHODES, THE DIAMOND KING.
- NUGGETS.
- CHAPTER VI. BIG GUNS, SMALL-ARMS, AND AMMUNITION.
- WOOLWICH ARSENAL.
- THE ENFIELD SMALL-ARMS FACTORY.
- LORD ARMSTRONG AND THE ELSWICK WORKS.
- TESTING GUNS AT SHOEBURYNESS.
- HIRAM S. MAXIM AND THE MAXIM MACHINE GUN.
- IRONCLADS.
- SUBMARINE BOATS.
- THE ENFIELD SMALL-ARMS FACTORY.
- LORD ARMSTRONG AND THE ELSWICK WORKS.
- TESTING GUNS AT SHOEBURYNESS.
- HIRAM S. MAXIM AND THE MAXIM MACHINE GUN.
- IRONCLADS.
- SUBMARINE BOATS.
- WOOLWICH ARSENAL.
- CHAPTER VII. EVOLUTION OF THE CYCLE.
- CYCLING.
- CHAPTER VIII. STEAMERS AND SAILING-SHIPS.
- THE CARRYING-TRADE OF THE WORLD.
- THE FIRST STEAMER TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC.
- THE NEW CUNARDERS.
- SAILING-SHIPS.
- THE FIRST STEAMER TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC.
- THE NEW CUNARDERS.
- SAILING-SHIPS.
- THE CARRYING-TRADE OF THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER IX. POST-OFFICE—TELEGRAPH—TELEPHONE—PHONOGRAPH.
- THE STORY OF ROWLAND HILL AND PENNY POSTAGE.
- A VISIT TO THE POST-OFFICE.
- THE POST-OFFICE ON WHEELS.
- EARLY TELEGRAPHS.
- THE TELEGRAPH OF TO-DAY.
- ATLANTIC CABLES.
- THE STATE AND THE TELEGRAPHS.
- THE TELEPHONE.
- THOMAS ALVA EDISON AND THE PHONOGRAPH.
- THE END.
- A VISIT TO THE POST-OFFICE.
- THE POST-OFFICE ON WHEELS.
- EARLY TELEGRAPHS.
- THE TELEGRAPH OF TO-DAY.
- ATLANTIC CABLES.
- THE STATE AND THE TELEGRAPHS.
- THE TELEPHONE.
- THOMAS ALVA EDISON AND THE PHONOGRAPH.
- THE END.
- BOOKS COMPILED BY
- THE STORY OF ROWLAND HILL AND PENNY POSTAGE.
- ROBERT COCHRANE
- London and Edinburgh.
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