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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowper, Professor, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical sciences--Juvenile fiction.
- Physical sciences.
- Inventions--Juvenile fiction.
- Inventions.
- Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frederick Warne and Company ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Company, [1873?]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- John Rayner
- The first railway train
- The thermometer
- The windmill
- The broken pump
- Nothing wasted
- The barometer
- The lock
- The seconds clock
- The eight-day clock
- The electric telegraph
- Making telegraphs
- Apparent course of the sun.
- Notes:
- Date of publication from inscription.
- Frontispiece printed in colors.
- Factual information in a fictional framework.
- Publisher's advertisements follow text.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 905331220
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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