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Kaufmann's sketch book of great inventors / written by Pittsburg boys and girls.
Library at the Katz Center - Archives Room T19 .K38 1909
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jayne, John Anderson, 1863-1917, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inventors.
- Penn Provenance:
- Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- Thirty-two pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Pittsburgh] : [Kaufmann's Department Store], [1909]
- Contents:
- Archimedes / by Jane Love McDonald
- Berthold Schwarz / by Frederick Thomas
- Johannes Gutenburg / by Belle McDonald
- Galileo / by Margaret Archibald
- Francis Laner / by Harry McKee
- John Harrison / by Walter Brown
- Sir Richard Arkwright / by Elizabeth King
- Luigi Galvani / by John Dolan
- Sir William Herschel / by Verna M. Irons
- Henry Greathead / by George Williams
- Robert Fulton / by L. Cyril Bearer
- Eli Whitney / by Harry Seemiller
- Aloys Senefelder / by Timothy Daugherty
- George Stephenson / by Paul C. Jennings
- Louis Jaques Mande Daguerre / by Mary E. McCombs
- Samuel F.B. Morse / by Mildren M. Breen
- Charles Goodyear / by Edward W. Schramm
- Sir Charles Wheatstone / by Frank Sinclair
- John Ericsson / by Howard Gibbs
- Cyrus Hall McCormick / by George L. White
- Henry Bessemer / by Paul F. Eichenlaub
- Richard Gordon Gatling / by Alvera Harriet Rau
- Elias Howe / by Helen Frances Hillman
- Alfred Bernard Nobel / by Willie Davis
- Conrad Wilhelm Rœntgen / by Austin Boley
- George Westinghouse / by Ada Shenkel
- Thomas Alva Edison / by Edna Hasemann
- Ottmar Mergenthaler / by Eleanore Mierzwa
- Alexander Bell / by Julia Sibilia
- Elihu Thomson / by David T. Lentz
- Guglielmo Marconi / Della Alston
- Wright Brothers / by Walter Miller.
- Notes:
- "A very large number of essays about great Inventors were received by us in May, and the thirty-two essays that appear on the following pages were selected as the best by the Rev. John Anderson Jayne, of Pittsburg, who consented to act as editor ..."--Page [2] of cover.
- Cover title.
- Publication date from illustrations signed and dated "F.E. Johnston '09" [i.e. 1909] in text.
- Local Notes:
- Kaplan Collection copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.
- OCLC:
- 28869488
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