Boys' Second Book of Inventions
Ray Stannard Baker
Boys' Second Book of Inventions
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BOYS' SECOND BOOK OF INVENTIONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I THE MIRACLE OF RADIUM Story of the Marvels and Dangers of the New Element Discovered by Professor and Madame Curie
CHAPTER II FLYING MACHINES [1] Santos-Dumont's Steerable Balloons
CHAPTER III THE EARTHQUAKE MEASURER Professor John Milne's Seismograph
CHAPTER IV ELECTRICAL FURNACES How the Hottest Heat is Produced—Making Diamonds
CHAPTER V HARNESSING THE SUN The Solar Motor
CHAPTER VI THE INVENTOR AND THE FOOD PROBLEM Fixing of Nitrogen—Experiments of Professor Nobbe
CHAPTER VII MARCONI AND HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS New Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy
CHAPTER VIII SEA-BUILDERS The Story of Lighthouse Building—Stone-tower Lighthouses, Iron Pile Lighthouses, and Steel Cylinder Lighthouses
CHAPTER IX THE NEWEST ELECTRIC LIGHT Peter Cooper Hewitt and His Three Great Inventions—The Mercury Arc Light—The New Electrical Converter—The Hewitt Interrupter
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