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Invention and Discovery

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Invention and Discovery — Curious Facts and Illustrative Sketches
  3. 3Construction of the Thames Tunnel
  4. 4Vast Spot on the Sun
  5. 5Death of Sir Humphry Davy
  6. 6Homage to Cuvier
  7. 7False Estimate of Railway Speed
  8. 8The Crawshays of Merthyr Tydvil
  9. 9Weighing Machine at the Bank of England
  10. 10Childhood of Pascal
  11. 11The Discoverer of Gutta Percha
  12. 12Sir Isaac Newton’s Magnet
  13. 13Coal Gas in Balloons
  14. 14Cuvier and Napoleon
  15. 15Last Moments of Leibnitz
  16. 16Franklin’s Discoveries
  17. 17Carnôt, When a Child
  18. 18Smeaton’s Independence
  19. 19Childhood of Cuvier
  20. 20Watt’s Discovery of the Composition of Water
  21. 21How Pascal Weighed the Atmosphere
  22. 22The Leaning Tower of Pisa
  23. 23Holding a “Craws’ Court”
  24. 24Alpine Perils
  25. 25Philosophical Enthusiasm
  26. 26“Shepherd to the King of England for Scotland”
  27. 27Travels of Volcanic Dust
  28. 28Early Life of Alexander Brongniart
  29. 29Smeaton’s Reproof of Gaming
  30. 30Invention of Gun-Cotton
  31. 31Sir Joseph Banks’s “Balance”
  32. 32Buckingham Palace Gates
  33. 33Earthquakes in Chile
  34. 34Cuvier in London
  35. 35The First Cup of Tea Drunk in England
  36. 36Benefit of a Wife to an Author
  37. 37The World in a Drop of Water
  38. 38Origin of Post-Paid Envelopes
  39. 39Character in Works
  40. 40Brindley, the Engineer
  41. 41Reason for Silence
  42. 42Ascent of the Jungfrau Alp
  43. 43The Steam-Gun in the Fifteenth Century
  44. 44Ancient Observatory in Persia
  45. 45London as a Port
  46. 46Fourdrinier’s Paper-Making Machinery
  47. 47The Cocoa-Nut Crab
  48. 48Descartes’ Wooden Daughter
  49. 49Astronomical Shoemaker
  50. 50Decline of Science
  51. 51Variable Climate of Tebreez
  52. 52Strychnine a Remedy for Paralysis
  53. 53Rapid Manufacture
  54. 54Discoveries Anticipated
  55. 55The First Use of Jesuit’s Bark
  56. 56Nice Robbery
  57. 57Female Mathematician
  58. 58Fourier’s Independence
  59. 59Mechanical Triumphs
  60. 60The Elgin Marbles
  61. 61Raleigh a Chemist
  62. 62Mr. Babbage’s Calculating Machine
  63. 63Herschel’s Love of Music
  64. 64Power of the Lever
  65. 65An Electrifying Machine in Persia
  66. 66How to Measure the Shock of an Earthquake
  67. 67The Drummond Light
  68. 68St. Pierre’s “Paul and Virginia”
  69. 69Mythology of Science
  70. 70El Dorado of Sir Walter Raleigh
  71. 71Amber, a Source of International Trade
  72. 72Antiquity of Lightning Conductors
  73. 73How the Deaf May Hear
  74. 74Drying Wood for Violins
  75. 75Columbus’s Own Ship Journal
  76. 76Early Incitements to a Scientific Study of Nature
  77. 77The Rights of Whitebait
  78. 78Catching Electric Eels
  79. 79Sir William Herschel’s First Telescope
  80. 80Wonders of Australia
  81. 81Vicissitudes of Mining
  82. 82Tropical Delights
  83. 83Invention of the Diving-Bell
  84. 84Experiments With an Electric Eel
  85. 85Talent and Opportunity
  86. 86Travelling in the Himaleh Mountains
  87. 87Gold in Siberia
  88. 88Combinations of the Kaleidoscope
  89. 89“The Means to the End”
  90. 90India Rubber, a Century and a Half Since
  91. 91Balloon Voyage From London to Nassau
  92. 92Antiquity of Refined Sugar
  93. 93Clearness of the Sky at the Cape of Good Hope
  94. 94Introduction of the Potato
  95. 95Faraday, as a Lecturer
  96. 96The Railway System Suggested
  97. 97Lord Brougham’s Blunders
  98. 98Who First Doubled the Cape of Good Hope?
  99. 99The First Kaleidoscope
  100. 100Ferguson and His Wife
  101. 101A Descent in a Diving-Bell
  102. 102Sir Humphry Davy an Angler
  103. 103Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  104. 104Tycho Brahe’s Credulity
  105. 105Invention of the Telescope, and Early Discoveries With It
  106. 106Identity of Black and Green Tea
  107. 107Protection by Rust
  108. 108The Lion Eaten as Food
  109. 109The Moon Seen Through Lord Rosse’s Telescope
  110. 110Longevity of the Beetle
  111. 111Total Eclipse of the Sun
  112. 112The Diving-Bell
  113. 113Rate of Balloon Travelling
  114. 114Safe Descent in a Parachute
  115. 115“Fossil Rain”
  116. 116Melting of a Watch by Lightning
  117. 117The Indian Jugglers’ Secret
  118. 118The Art of Stereotype
  119. 119“Raining Trees”
  120. 120The Invisible Dispatch
  121. 121Tame Hyæna
  122. 122Novel Travelling Carriage
  123. 123Enemies of the Ostrich
  124. 124Fire-Proof House on Putney Heath
  125. 125The Last of the Alchemists
  126. 126Celebrated Diamonds
  127. 127Dr. Dee, the Necromancer
  128. 128Voyage of Manufacture
  129. 129Sir David Brewster’s Kaleidoscope
  130. 130Lord Rosse’s Leviathan Telescope
  131. 131Origin of Reflecting Lighthouses
  132. 132Waste of Human Life
  133. 133Lifting Heavy Persons
  134. 134Origin of the Society of Arts
  135. 135Vast Mirrors
  136. 136Transportation of the Coffee-Tree
  137. 137Arkwright’s Spinning Frame
  138. 138Spinning Feats
  139. 139Marvels of the Alchemists
  140. 140Invention of the Hand Gear
  141. 141Poker Across the Fire
  142. 142The Artesian Well of Grenelle, at Paris
  143. 143“Wet the Ropes”
  144. 144The Death of Dr. Black
  145. 145Origin of the Telegraph
  146. 146Necessity the Mother of Invention
  147. 147A “Dry-Making” in Holland
  148. 148A Scientific Pilgrim
  149. 149The Burning Mirrors of Archimedes
  150. 150Magnetic Correspondence in the Seventeenth Century
  151. 151Navigation Before the Compass
  152. 152Semaphore V. Electric Telegraph
  153. 153A Wrench to Old St. Paul’s
  154. 154Snow Spectacles
  155. 155A Self-Taught Mechanist
  156. 156The Amsterdam Pile
  157. 157The Perils of Experiment
  158. 158The Siberian Mammoth Remains
  159. 159Velocity of Electricity
  160. 160Monochromatic Painting
  161. 161The Mariner’s Compass
  162. 162The Discovery of Lithography

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