Inventions · In English · 1903
Boys' Second Book of Inventions
Early wireless, flying machines and motor cars, told through the stories of the people who built them, as seen around 1903.
10 chapters · about 3 h of reading
Opening the book
How the book begins
Severo's Balloon, the "Pax," which on its First Ascent at a Height of about 2,000 feet, Burst and Exploded, Sending to a Terrible Death both M. Severo and his Assistant 33
This and the pictures following on pages 89, 101, 111, are from Japanese photographs reproduced in "The Great Earthquake in Japan, 1891," by John Milne and W. K. Burton.
The kinks are caused by seismic disturbances, and they show how much distortion a cable can suffer and still remain in good electrical condition, as this was found to be.
Contents
- 01Opening
- 02Chapter I. The Miracle of Radium
- 03Chapter II. Flying Machines[a]
- 04Chapter III. The Earthquake Measurer
- 05Chapter IV. Electrical Furnaces
- 06Chapter V. Harnessing the Sun
- 07Chapter VI. The Inventor and the Food Problem
- 08Chapter VII. Marconi and his Great Achievements
- 09Chapter VIII. Sea-Builders
- 10Chapter IX. The Newest Electric Light
About this edition
Public domain: the author died in 1946, more than seventy years ago, and the book was first published in 1903. It is free to read, copy and share in the EU, Russia and the United States.
We removed the source's wrapper, rejoined the lines and split the book into chapters. The words are the author's.