Historic Inventions

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Historic Inventions" by Rupert Sargent Holland is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores significant inventions and the lives of their inventors, highlighting key figures such as Gutenberg, Palissy, and Galileo, and showcasing the impact of their innovations on society. The focus is on the stories behind these inventions, illustrating not only the inventions themselves but also the personal trials and achievements of their creators. At the start of the book, the narrative introduces John Gutenberg and the tumultuous civil landscape of 15th-century Germany, detailing his background as a lapidary and his early ideas about printing. Following a series of contemplative discussions with his wife, Anna, Gutenberg embarks on a quest to create a printing press, inspired by the efficiency of woodblock printing he observes. The opening segment captures his inventive spirit as he begins experimenting with blocks and letters, illustrating the evolution of his thoughts leading to the groundbreaking invention of movable type, setting the stage for the broader historical implications of his work in the printing industry. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Gutenberg and the printing press

Palissy and his enamel

Galileo and the telescope

Watt and the steam-engine

Arkwright and the spinning-jenny

Whitney and the cotton-gin

Fulton and the steamboat

Davy and the safety-lamp

Stephenson and the locomotive

Morse and the telegraph

Mccormick and the reaper

Howe and the sewing-machine

Bell and the telephone

Edison and the electric light

Marconi and the wireless telegraph

The Wrights and the airship.

Credits:

Produced by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 66.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2013-04-12