# Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery

Author: Iles, George, 1852-1942 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29241

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Little+Masterpieces+of+Science%3A+Invention+and+Discovery+Iles&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

To a good many of us the inventor is the true hero for he multiplies the working value of life. He performs an old task with new economy, as when he devises a mowing-machine to oust the scythe; or he creates a service wholly new, as when he bids a landscape depict itself on a photographic plate. He, and his twin brother, the discoverer, have eyes to read a lesson that Nature has held for ages under the undiscerning gaze of other men. Where an ordinary observer sees, or thinks he sees, diversity, a Franklin detects identity, as in the famous experiment here recounted which proves lightning to be one and the same with a charge of the Leyden jar. Of a later day than Franklin, advantaged ther...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/little-masterpieces-of-science-invention-and-discovery-29241/chapters/11/index.md)