| Author | Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), b. 1872.
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| Title | Great inventions / by Charles Greeley Abbot.
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| Published | [New York : Smithsonian Institution Series, Inc.] 1932.
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| Description | 8 p. leaves., 383 p. : col. front., illus. (incl. map) 123 pl. (incl. ports.) on 67 leaves., diagrs. ; 24 cm.
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| Series | Smithsonian scientific series, v. 12
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| General Note | "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.
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| Subjects | Inventions.
Technology.
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| LC Card Number | 33-2340 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: Q 11 S665 v.12
mq34277: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 27131] |
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