| Stories of Inventors Contributor(s): Doubleday, Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798585781155 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.58 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How Guglielmo Marconi telegraphs without wires.-Santos-Dumont and his air-ship.-How a fast train is run.-How automobiles work.-The fastest steamboats. -The life-savers and their apparatus.-Moving pictures; some strange subjects and how they were taken.-Bridge builders and some of their achievements.-Submarines in war and peace.-Long-distance telephony; what happens when you talk into a telephone receiver.-A machine that thinks; a type-setting machine that makes mathematical calculations.-How heat produces cold; artificial ice-making. |
