| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Great facts: a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century
| | | | Creator: | Bakewell, Frederick Collier. | | | | Publication: | D. Appleton and Company, New York,1860. | | | | Call #: | T19 B168 | | | | Extent: | xii, 307 p. : incl. front., illus., diagrs. ; 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Discoveries and inventions: a lecture
| | | | Creator: | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 | | | | | Howell, John. | | | | Publication: | J. Howell, San Francisco,1915. | | | | Notes: | "This lecture is not included with any collection of Lincoln's addresses. It appeared in print for the first time in Sunset magazine, in 1909." (Prefatory note) Reproduced from the original ms. owned by Hon. Henry A. Melvin, of Oakland, Cal. The text of another different lecture on "Discoveries, inventions and improvements" is printed from a ms. owned by Charles F. Gunther, of Chicago, in Lincoln's Complete works, edited by Nicolay and Hay, 1894, v. 1, p. 522-528. "Of this book 250 copies were printed on Fabriano Italian hand-made paper, and 1000 copies on American drawing paper. The frontispiece is by Ray F. Coyle. Printed by the Blair-Murdock company, San Francisco, under the direction of John Henry Nash,in the month of October, 1915." In slide case. | | | | Call #: | E457.95 1860 | | | | Extent: | [21] p. port. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Historic inventions
| | | | Creator: | Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952 | | | | Publication: | G. W. Jacobs & company, Philadelphia,[1911] | | | | Call #: | B 8855 | | | | Extent: | 295 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century: the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
| | | | Creator: | Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 | | | | Publication: | A. J. Holman & Co, Philadelphia, Pa,[1899] | | | | Call #: | D359.7 B789 | | | | Extent: | 1 p. Á., xviii, [19]-720 p. front., illus., plates, ports. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Progress | Inventions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Great inventions
| | | | Creator: | Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), b. 1872 | | | | Publication: | Smithsonian Institution Series, Inc.], New York,1932. | | | | Notes: | "Primitive inventions have already been covered in volume 7 of this series. My purpose was rather to select and explain the operation in their simpler forms of a few inventions, conceived mainly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." - Pref. On cover: Patrons edition. Errata slip mounted on p. 228. | | | | Call #: | Q11 S665 v.12 | | | | Extent: | 8 p. leaves., 383 p. : col. front., illus. (incl. map) 123 pl. (incl. ports.) on 67 leaves., diagrs. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions | Technology
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Stories of inventors: the adventures of inventors and engineers. True incidents and personal experiences
| | | | Creator: | Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949 | | | | Publication: | Doubleday, Page & co, New York,1904. | | | | Call #: | B 5435 | | | | Extent: | 221 p. illus. 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions | Inventors
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | Consecrated ingenuity: the Shakers and their inventions
| | | | Creator: | Williams, John S. | | | | | Shaker Museum Foundation, Old Chatham, New York | | | | Publication: | Shaker Museum Foundation, Old Chatham, New York,1957. | | | | Notes: | Cover title. Bibliography: p. [10] | | | | Call #: | BX9789 I6W7 | | | | Extent: | [10] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Shakers | Inventions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 12 | Title: | Improved Shaker washing machine: designed particularly for hospitals, hotels, laundries, &c. manufactured and for sale by the United Society of Shakers, at Shaker Village, N.H. Also, a newly constructed mangle, operated by a screw
| | | | Creator: | Shakers | | | | Publication: | Charles C. Pearson & Co, Concord, N.H,1876. | | | | Notes: | Cover title. | | | | Call #: | BX9785 W3I3 1876 | | | | Extent: | 22, [1] p. diag. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions | Washing machines
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 14 | Title: | The marvels of war inventions: descriptions of weapons of war and how they were invented
| | | | Creator: | Corbin, Thomas W. | | | | Publication: | Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, London,1919. | | | | Notes: | "The contents of this volume are drawn from Mr. T. W. Corbin's larger book 'The romance of war inventions.'"- Publisher's note. | | | | Call #: | T20 C63 | | | | Extent: | 2 p.l., 13-251, [1] p. : front., 7 plates. ; 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions | Military art and science | Naval art and science
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 15 | Title: | Fifty years of Popular mechanics, 1902-1952
| | | | Alt. Title: | Popular mechanics (Chicago, Ill. : 1902)
| | | | Creator: | Throm, Edward L. (Edward Louis), 1911- | | | | Publication: | Simon and Schuster, New York,[1952] | | | | Notes: | "An album of American progress containing the most fascinating articles, predictions, pictures, and inventions that have appeared since the first issue of Popular mechanics"--Title page. | | | | Call #: | T1 .P833 1952 | | | | Extent: | 308 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm | | | | Subjects: | Popular mechanics (Chicago, Ill. : 1902) | Technology | Inventions
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 16 | Title: | The register of arts: or, A compendious view of some of the most useful modern discoveries and inventions
| | | | Creator: | Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837 | | | | Publication: | Published by C. and A. Conrad, and Co, Conrad Lucas & Co, Somerville and Conrad, Bonsal Conrad & Co, No. 30 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Market Street, Baltimore, Petersburg, Norfolk,1808. | | | | Call #: | T47 F415 | | | | Extent: | xi, 404 p. ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Technology | Industrial arts | Inventions | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 18 | Title: | The wonders of modern mechanism: a resume of progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science at the dawn of the twentieth century
| | | | Creator: | Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- | | | | Publication: | J.B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia,1900. | | | | Call #: | T19 .C663 1900 | | | | Extent: | 434 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, diagrams, plates ; 20 cm | | | | Subjects: | Inventions | Discoveries in science | Mechanical engineering | Machinery
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