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How It Works

by Archibald Williams

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  1. 1Author’s Note
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — The Steam-Engine
  4. 4Chapter II — The Conversion of Heat Energy Into Mechanical Motion
  5. 5Chapter III — The Steam Turbine
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Internal-Combustion Engine
  7. 7Chapter V — Electrical Apparatus
  8. 8Chapter VI — The Electric Telegraph
  9. 9Chapter VII — Wireless Telegraphy
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Telephone
  11. 11Chapter IX — Dynamos and Electric Motors
  12. 12Chapter X — Railway Brakes
  13. 13Chapter XI — Railway Signalling
  14. 14Chapter XII — Optics
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The Microscope, the Telescope, and the Magic-Lantern
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Sound and Musical Instruments
  17. 17Chapter XV — Wind Instruments
  18. 18Chapter XVI — Talking-Machines
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Why the Wind Blows
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Hydraulic Machinery
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Heating and Lighting
  22. 22Chapter XX — Various Mechanisms

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