SCIENCE IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD 



IN the present volume we are concerned with the 

 application of relatively few and comparatively 

 simple principles of science to a great variety of 

 industries. So far as these industries can be grouped 

 it may be said that they have to do very largely with 

 the transmission of ideas. 



We shall hear the story of the development of the 

 telegraph, cable, and telephone, those weird, even if 

 familiar, mechanisms through which human ideas 

 are flashed instantaneously from one part of the globe 

 to another. 



We shall examine that even weirder mechanism, the 

 phonograph, which embalms, as it were, and reproduces 

 the very intonations of the human voice. 



We shall outline the story of bookmaking, from the 

 papyrus scroll of the Egyptian and the clay tablets 

 of the Babylonians to the astoundingly multiplied 

 output of the printing-press. 



We shall learn also the story of paper-making, of 

 the reproduction of illustrations, and of the making 

 of those strangely realistic sun pictures called photo- 

 graphs, which even now seem mysterious and wonder- 

 ful to the thoughtful mind despite their familiarity. 

 The presentation of these and sundry other aspects of 

 modem civilization, as influenced so enormously by 



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