title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
A Backward Glance at Eighty
Recollections & comment | Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1841-1928 | en | | | | Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1841-1928; Law -- Political aspects -- California; Mines and mineral resources -- California; Business -- California; San Francisco (Calif.) | 2004-07-14 |
The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women | Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915 | en | | The veiled lady of Stamboul -- Loretta of the shipyard -- A coat of red lead -- Miss Murdock --"special" -- The beguiling of Peter Griggs -- Miss Jenning's companion -- Sam Joplin's epigastric nerve -- Miss Buffum's new boarder -- Captain Joe and the "Susie Ann" -- "Against orders" -- Muggles's supreme moment. | | | 2003-12-01 |
Men of Invention and Industry | Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 | en | | Phineas Pett : beginnings of English shipbuilding -- Francis Pettit Smith, practical introducer of the screw propeller -- John Harrison, inventor of the marine chronometer -- John Lombe, introducer of the silk industry into England -- William Murdock, his life and inventions -- Frederick Koenig, inventor of the steam-printing machine -- The Walters of the "Times" : invention of the Walter press -- William Clowes : book-printing by steam -- Charles Bianconi : a lesson of self-help in Ireland -- Industry in Ireland : through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast -- Ship-building in Belfast / by E.J. Harland, engineer and shipbuilder -- Astronomers and students in humble life : a new chapter in the "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties". | | Inventors -- Biography; Industrial arts -- Biography | 1996-11-01 |