The Story of Great Inventions

The discoveries of Faraday prepared the way for the great inventions of the nineteenth century. By the middle of the century men knew how to control the wonderful power of elect...

We have seen that the latter half of the nineteenth century was a time of invention. It was a time when the great discoveries of many centuries bore fruit in great inventions. I...

Michael Faraday, a London newsboy, the son of a blacksmith, became the inventor of the dynamo, and prepared the way for the wonderful electrical inventions of the nineteenth cen...

For eighteen centuries after the time of Archimedes no inventions of importance were made. Men sought for truth where truth could not be found. They looked within their mouldy m...

If you had visited the coal-mines of England and Scotland three hundred years ago, you might have seen women bending under baskets of coal toiling up spiral stairways leading fr...

Archimedes, the first great inventor, lived in Syracuse more than two thousand years ago. Syracuse was a Greek city on the island of Sicily. The King of Syracuse, Hiero, took gr...

Air-ships.--The aeroplane.--How the Wright aeroplane is kept afloat.--Submarines.--Some spinning tops that are useful.--The monorail-car.--Liquid air and the greatest cold.--The...

Count Rumford.--Count Rumford's experiment with the cannon.--Davy.--Faraday's electrical discoveries.--Oersted and electromagnetism.--Ampère.--Arago.--Faraday's first electric m...

Galileo and the battle for truth.--The pendulum clock.--Galileo's experiment with falling shot.--The telescope.--Galileo's struggle.--Torricelli and the barometer.--Otto von Gue...

Electric batteries.--The dry battery.--The storage battery.--The dynamo.--Siemens' dynamo.--The drum armature.--Edison's compound-wound dynamo.--Electric power.--The first elect...

James Watt and the steam-engine.--The first steam-engine with a piston.--Newcomen's engine.--Watt's engine.--Horse-power of an engine.--The Leyden jar.--Conductors and insulator...