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The Age of Invention; A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest

By Holland Thompson (Chronicles of America #37)

2019-02-28 00:24:06

For the beginnings of the enslavement of steam, that mighty giant whose work has changed the world we live in, we must return to the times of Benjamin Franklin. James Watt, the accredited father of the modern steam engine, was a contemporary of Frank ... Read more
For the beginnings of the enslavement of steam, that mighty giant whose work has changed the world we live in, we must return to the times of Benjamin Franklin. James Watt, the accredited father of the modern steam engine, was a contemporary of Franklin, and his engine was twenty-one years old when Franklin died. The discovery that steam could be harnessed and made to work is not, of course, credited to James Watt. The precise origin of that discovery is unknown. Less

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File size140.765 KB
Print pages332
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-07-28
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781438527246
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Holland Thompson
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Holland McTyeire Thompson (July 30, 1873 – October 21, 1940), was an American historian who wrote about the New South. Thompson was born in Randolph County, North Carolina. He graduated from the Uni...

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