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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), 1872-1973.
Series:
Smithsonian scientific series ; v. 12.
Smithsonian scientific series ; v. 12
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Inventions.
Physical Description:
383 pages, 123 plates (including portraits) on 67 leaves : color folded illustrations (including map), illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
[New York] : [Smithsonian institution series], [1934]
Notes:
"Primitive inventions ... have already been covered in volume 7 of this series ... My purpose was rather to select and explain the operation in their simpler forms of a few inventions, conceived mainly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Pref.
Other Format:
Online version: Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), 1872-1973. Great inventions.
OCLC:
2861289

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