DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Written by Edward Cressy
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
in 1914
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- INVENTIONS
- WATERWHEELS
- ELECTRICITY
- STEELMAKING
- ENGINEERING
DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Written by Edward Cressy.
Stock no. 557833
1st.
1914.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Chapters on the revival or water power, economy in the use of fuel, modern steam engines, gas, oil, and petrol engines, and the generation and distribution of electricity. Followed by chapters on electric lighting and heating, new processes in the manufacture and treatment of steel, some typical modern devices in the engineering workshop and the factory, and the extraordinary number of manufacturing processes which have their birth in the electric furnaces. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Gilt illustration to front cover. Colour frontis. B/w photos and diagrams. xvi and 398 pages including index. Rear joint split. Corners worn. Boards rubbed and marked. Text block browned. Half-title page heavily browned and has a gift inscription ink from father to son dated 1915. Foxing throughout. Some pencil annotation.
Front cover
Contents
- The revival of water power
- Coal, gas, and petroleum
- Steam power
- Gas, Petrol, and oil engines
- Generation and transmission of electricity
- Electric lighting and heating
- Speed and economy in factory and workshop
- Foundry and forge
- The electric furnace and its applications
- The artificial production of cold and its applications
- Soil and crops
- Railways
- Electric traction
- Motor-cars
- Modern ships
- The conquest of the air
- Wireless telegraphy
- Ships of war and their weapons
- Some applications of photography
- Radium, electricity, and matter