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Stories of Inventors and Discoverers 

 in Science and the Useful Arts. 



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I TIMBS, F.S.A., 



AU1 :.GS KOT GENERALLY KSOWS," ETC. 



" Justice exacl whom we are most benefited should be most 



ired"."— S. John sos. 



CONTENTS— 68 

 Intentions of Archimedes. 

 Magnet and the Mariner's Co 

 Who invented Printing, and where? 

 Who invented Gunpowder? 

 The Barometer— Turricelli and Pascal. 

 The Air-pump and the Air-gun. 

 Living under Water— the Diving-bell. 

 Automata and Speaking Machines. 

 The Automaton Chess-player. 

 Navigation of the Air— the lialloon. 

 The True History of Friar Paeon. 

 The Discoveries of Leonardo da Vinci. 

 The Story of Paracelsus. 

 Napier's Secret Inventions. 

 Lord Bacon's " New Philosophy." 

 Inventions of Prince Rupert. 

 " Prince Rupert's Drops." 

 Sir Samuel Morland and his Inventions. 



The Marquis of Worcester's " Century 

 of Inventions." 



George Graham, and the Watch. 



Harrison, and the Longitude Watch. 



Harvey— Circulation of the Blood. 



Dr. Jenner, and Vaccination. 



Euler's Powers of Calculation. 



Bidder, and Mental Calculation. 



Calculating Machines. 



Galileo— Invention of the Telescope. 



Isaac Newton's Reflecting Telescope. 



Guinand's Glass for Telescopes. 



Sir W. Herschel, and his Telescopes. 



Lord Rosse's Reflecting Telescopes. 



The Invention of the Microscope. 



Sir David Brewster's Kaleidoscope. 



Magic Mirrors and Burning ! 



NAREATIVES : 

 .Story of Palissy, the Potter. 

 DOd, and his V. 

 att, and the Steam-en 



Tii.. ('ottos ManuvACTI I 



Hargreaves, and the Spinning Jenny. 

 Arkwright, and the Spinning Frame. 

 on, and the Spinning Mule, 

 i wright, and the Power-loom. 

 .-printing, and the Peels. 

 Cotton-spinning Machinery. 



Lombe, and the Silk-throwing Mill. 



William Lee, and the Stocking-frame. 

 d, and his Loom. 



Franklin— Lightning and Electricity. 



Chemistry of the Gases— Discovery of 

 ke-darop and Firedamp. 



Sir Humphry Davy, and theSafety-lamp. 



Carcel, and his Lamp. 



Gas-lighting Towns. 



James Brindley, and Canal Navigation. 



Smeaton— Lighthouses and Harbours. 



Inventions of Joseph Bramah. , 



Telford, and the Menai Bridge. 



John Kennie— Docks and Bridges. 



" The First Practical Steam-hoat." 



Sir Isambard M. Brunei— Block Ma- 

 chinery, and the Thames Tunnel. 



George Stephenson, and Railways. 



Robert Stephenson, and Railway Works. 



Isambard K. Brunei— Railway Works, 

 and Iron Shipbuilding. 



Photography and the Stereoscope. 



Caoutchouc, and its Manufactures. 



Gutta Percha, and its Manufactures, 

 ph— Atlantic Cable. 



CRITICAL OPINIONS. 



"A recent addition to at, solid, and useful volumes on which 



Mr Timbs's fame a , justly rests. This is an industrious and ju- 



dicious compilation, focusing the scattered fragments of information bearing on 

 the men and things of which it treats, not omitting the most recent contribu- 

 tions to the history of Discoverers and Inventors."— The Engineer. 



" An interesting and well-collected hook, ranging from Archimedes and 

 Roger Bacon to the Stephensons."— Aihanaum. 



" These stories, by Mr. Timbs, are as marvellous as the Arabian A<. tits 

 Entertainments, and are wrought into a volume of great interest and worth."— 

 Atlas. 



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