THE AGE OF MACHINERY: THE FORCES OF NATURE TURNED TO THE SERVICE OF MAN
Written by Alexander R. Horne
Published by Blackie And Son Limited
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- INDUSTRY
- COAL
- STEELMAKING
- GAS
- STEAM ENGINES
- RAILWAYS
- ELECTRICITY
- CHILDRENS
THE AGE OF MACHINERY: THE FORCES OF NATURE TURNED TO THE SERVICE OF MAN
Written by Alexander R. Horne.
Stock no. 1819205
Hardback.
Small format.
Almost very good condition.
Some ordinary useful applications of the sciences explained in simple language for young people. Small format. Blue cloth boards, pale blue titles. B/w illustrations. 208 pages. Boards marked, spine and title to spine faded. Endpapers and text block heavily browned. Rear pastedown has a sticky label stuck to it and pencil scribble. Rust spot to gutter edge of prelims. A few grubby marks to contents but generally clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Coal: What it is and How it Burns
- The Manufacture of Coal Gas
- Oil and its Uses
- How Iron is Made
- The Making of Steel
- Other Useful Metals and Alloys
- Heat, and What it can Do
- About Gases
- Steam Boilers
- The Steam Engine
- The Steam Turbine
- How Gas Engines Work
- About Oil Engines
- How the Power of the Wind is Made Use of
- The Power of Flowing Water
- How Water is Pumped
- Some Uses of Water Power
- The Shaping of Iron
- Compressed Air
- Machines which make Ice
- Digging by Machinery
- The Locomotive
- How Railway Signals are Worked
- Railway Brakes
- The Motor Car
- About Flying Machines
- What is Electricity?
- How Electric Currents are Produced
- Magnets and their Uses
- Electric Tramways
- The Building and Launching of a Large Ship
- Our Navy - The Battleship
- Our Navy - Other Vessels
- The Making of Paper by the Aid of Machinery