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Title: Stories of Inventors
The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers

Author: Russell Doubleday

Release Date: February 29, 2004 [EBook #11368]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MARCONI READING A MESSAGE]

STORIES OF INVENTORS

The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers.
True Incidents And Personal Experiences

By

RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY

1904

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author and publishers take pleasure in acknowledging the courtesy of

_The Scientific American_
_The Booklovers Magazine_
_The Holiday Magazine_, and
Messrs. Wood & Nathan Company

for the use of a number of illustrations in this book.

From _The Scientific American_, illustrations facing pages 16, 48,
78, 80, 88, 94, 118, 126, 142, and 162.

From _The Booklovers Magazine_, illustrations facing pages 184, 190,
194, and 196.

From _The Holiday Magazine_, illustrations facing pages 100 and 110.

CONTENTS

How Guglielmo Marconi Telegraphs Without Wires
Santos-Dumont and His Air-Ship
How a Fast Train Is Run
How Automobiles Work
The Fastest Steamboats
The Life-Savers and Their Apparatus
Moving Pictures--Some Strange Subjects and How They Were Taken
Bridge Builders and Some of Their Achievements
Submarines in War and Peace
Long-Distance Telephony--What Happens When You Talk into a
Telephone Receiver
A Machine That Thinks--A Type-Setting Machine That Makes
Mathematical Calculations
How Heat Produces Cold--Artificial Ice-Making

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Marconi Reading a Message _Frontispiece_

Marconi Station at Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The Wireless Telegraph Station at Glace Bay
Santos-Dumont Preparing for a Flight
Rounding the Eiffel Tower
The Motor and Basket of "Santos-Dumont No. 9"
Firing a Fast Locomotive
Track Tank
Railroad Semaphore Signals
Thirty Years' Advance in Locomotive Building
The "Lighthouse" of the