The Romance of Modern Invention
By
Archibald
Williams
The Sun-Motor used on the Pasadena Ostrich-farm, California. It works a pump capable of delivering 1,400 gallons per minute.
[See pp. 210, 211.]
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN INVENTION
CONTAINING INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS INNON-TECHNICAL LANGUAGE OF WIRELESSTELEGRAPHY, LIQUID AIR, MODERN ARTILLERY,SUBMARINES, DIRIGIBLE TORPEDOES,SOLAR MOTORS, AIRSHIPS, &c. &c.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED
38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET
1907
Preface
The object of this book is to set before young people in a bright andinteresting way, and without the use of technical language, accountsof some of the latest phases of modern invention; and also tointroduce them to recent discoveries of which the full development isyet to be witnessed.
The author gratefully acknowledges the help given him as regards bothliterary matter and illustrations by:—Mr. Cuthbert Hall (the MarconiWireless Telegraphy Co.); Mr. William Sugg; Mr. Hans Knudsen; Mr. F.C. B. Cole; Mr. E. J. Ryves; Mr. Anton Pollak; the Telautograph Co.;the Parsons Steam Turbine Co.; the Monotype Co.; the Biograph Co.; theLocomobile Co.; the Speedwell Motor Co.
September 1902.