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MEN OF INVENTION 



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PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings of English Ship-building. 

 FRANCIS P. SMITH, Introducer of the Screw Propeller. 

 JOHN HARRISON, Inventor of the Marine Chronometer. 

 JOHN LOMBE, Introducer of the Silk Industry. 

 WILLIAM MURDOCK : His Life and Inventions. 

 FREDKRICK KOENIG, Inventor of the Steam Printing Machine. 

 THE TIMES : Inventor of the Walter Press. 

 WILLIAM CLOWES : Book-Printing by Steam. 

 CHARLES BIANCONI : Self-help in Ireland. 

 INDUSTRY IN IRELAND : Connaught to Belfast. 

 SHIP-BUILDING IN BELFAST: Autobiography of Harland. 

 ASTRONOMERS AND STUDENTS in Humble Life. 



" Dr. Smiles has probably done more, by his many interesting books, to uphold 

 the dignity and power of labour than any other writer. He is the prose laureate of 

 Industry, and its captains have found in him one who is not only enthusiastic 

 himself, but who is also capable of infusing others with a like enthusiasm. . . . 

 We have no doubt that these latest chapters in the history of industry and 

 scientific investigation will be quite as popular as their predecessors." The Times. 



"Dr. Smiles has here added another to his valuable volumes on Industrial 

 Biography, and one which is quite worthy of its place. In this instance, he has in 

 many cases had to do with men who did not, in the worldly sense, succeed ; and 

 who had to endure hardness in the cause of the common good. . . . The book is a 

 rich storehouse of facts, condensed to the utmost, and all presented with that rare 

 and unaffected simplicity of style which has done so much to give Dr. Smiles the 

 high place he holds in literature." British Quarterly Review. 



"Another volume of Industrial Biography by Dr. Samuel Smiles will meet with 

 a general welcome. One of the best chapters is devoted to Astronomers and 

 Students in humble life. . . . The book is throughout most readable and instruc- 

 tive." Contemporary Review. 



"The new work, entitled 'Men of Invention and Industry,' contains an 

 excellent account of the chequered career and hard fate of Koenig." Nineteenth 

 Century. 



" Stories of the heroes of Industry, such as those which Dr. Siniles delights to 

 tell, are contributions of some value to the best kind of educational literature. In 

 the present volume Dr. Smiles takes a wide industrial range, illustrating each trade 

 of which he treats by biography or autobiography." Athenceum. 



"Generally speaking, a succes d'estime is all that is accorded to solid and improv- 

 ing books, while popular enthusiasm is aroused only by works of fiction. But Dr. 

 Smiles forms an exception to this rule. His books are read as easily as novels, nor 

 is it difficult to tell why. Mankind loves a story, and Dr. Smiles masks his 

 batteries behind a series of well-told tales, in which the moral is never obtruded, 

 but, as it were, held in solution, and swallowed unconsciously. His heroes, too, have 

 the very qualities which win the esteem and excite the emulation of Englishmen ; 

 they are uniformly brave, honest, laborious, and persevering ; and the teaching of 

 their lives is, that without these moral qualities, no mere mental superiority avails. 

 The author's reflections and generalisations are few and short; but so wise, so in- 

 controvertible, as to strike home and be remembered. Add to all this a direct, 

 telling style, entirely free from affectation, and the triumphant success of 'Self- 

 help,' 'Lives of the Engineers,' etc., is explained. The volume, entitled 'Men of 

 Invention and Industry,' is in every way worthy of its predecessors." Economist. 



" 'Men of Invention and Industry' is, in our judgment, one of the best prize 

 books of the season. It is every whit as interesting as ' Lives of the Engineers ' 

 and ' Industrial Biography,' and higher praise we cannot award it. Most of the 

 names, Phineas Pett, Francis Pettit Smith, John Lombe, William Murdock, 

 Frederick Koenig, Charles Bianconi, will be new to most readers. Tulit alter 

 honores would be an appropriate motto for the book." Journal of Education. 



