| | Book | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 3 | Title: | A history of wonderful inventions
| | | | Publication: | Harper & brothers, New York,1849. | | | | Call #: | B 6809 | | | | Extent: | 2 v. in 1. fronts., illus. (incl.ports.) diagr. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions
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| Book | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 6 | Title: | Inventive genius
| | | | Creator: | Time-Life Books | | | | Publication: | Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Va,[c1991] | | | | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-140) and index. | | | | Call #: | T39 I62 | | | | Extent: | 143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Inventions | Inventors -- Biography
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| Book | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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 | Save | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 19 | Title: | Dawson Kelly Family Papers Series II
| | | | Creator: | Kelly, Dawson Family | | | | Dates: | 1864-1995 | | | | Abstract: | The Dawson Kelly family was a Cleveland, Ohio, Irish American family descended from Daniel Kelly. Dawson's parents were William and Mary Dawson Kelly. His wife was Anna Melia, who immigrated to Cleveland from Ireland ca. 1912 with her sister, Mary Melia. The collection consists of baptismal data, certificate of naturalization, correspondence, essays, a family record, data regarding inventions by William A. Kelly, a magazine article on the Talty family, and newspaper clippings. Includes photocopy of "The history of the Patrick Dawson and the Daniel Kelly families of Cleveland, Ohio" by Dawson Kelly, 1967. | | | | Call #: | MS 4910 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Kelly family | Dawson family | Kelly, William A. | Kelly, Daniel -- Family | Dawson, Patrick -- Family | Talty family | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Inventions | Medical instruments and apparatus | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy
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