THE TRIUMPH OF MAN IN SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Written by Ellison Hawks
Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd.
in 1929
THE TRIUMPH OF MAN IN SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Written by Ellison Hawks.
Stock no. 815997
1st.
1929.
Hardback.
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.
Front cover
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