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THE TRIUMPH OF MAN IN SCIENCE AND INVENTION

by Ellison Hawks

Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.. 1st. 1929

Very good condition. Blue cloth, gilt titles & vignette. Colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 426 pages including index.

Front vertical edge of cover worn, corners worn. Title to spine rubbed. Covers lightly scuffed. Hand-made free front endpaper has come unstuck i.e. is loose. All plates present. A few foxspots. Text block untrimmed.

Stock no. 815997

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Contents

  • What Man Has Found Out About the Earth
  • What Man Has Found Out About Himself
  • Man Shelters from the Elements: The Story of the House
  • How Man Gets His Daily Bread
  • The Triumph of Spinning and Weaving
  • What the Telescope has Revealed
  • Measuring Time Through the Ages
  • The Triumph of Man on Land 1. Writing and Printing
  • The Triumph of Man on Land 2. Coal Gives us Light and Heat
  • The Triumph of Man on Land 3. The Importance of Iron and Steel
  • Means of Travel: On Land
  • Means of Travel: By Sea
  • The Triumph of Flight
  • The Conquest of Disease

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