{"product_id":"2940013145627","title":"Inventions in the Century","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Inventions and Discoveries.--Distinctions and Contrast.--The\u003cbr\u003e One, Useful Contrivances of Man; the Other, New Things Found\u003cbr\u003e in Nature.--Galileo and the Telescope.--Newton and the Law of\u003cbr\u003e Gravitation.--Often United as Soul and Body.--Inventions and\u003cbr\u003e Discoveries do not Precede or Succeed in Order.--Inventions--\u003cbr\u003e Alphabetical Writing; Arabic Notation; The Mariner's Compass;\u003cbr\u003e The Telescope; The Steam Engine.--Discoveries;--Attraction of\u003cbr\u003e Gravitation; Planetary Motions; Circulation of Blood; Velocity\u003cbr\u003e of Light.--Nineteenth Century Inventions and Discoveries.--\u003cbr\u003e Further Definitions.--Law of Development.--Contrivances, not\u003cbr\u003e Creations.--Man Always an Inventor.--Prof. Langley on Slow\u003cbr\u003e Growth of Inventions.--Inventions of this Century Outgrowth of\u003cbr\u003e Past Ones.--Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern\u003cbr\u003e Plough.--Hero of Alexandria and James Watt.--David's Harp and\u003cbr\u003e the Grand Piano.--Electrical Science in 1600 and the Present\u003cbr\u003e Day.--Evolution and Interrelation of the Arts.--Age of Machine\u003cbr\u003e Inventions.--Its Beginning.--The Inducements to Invention.--\u003cbr\u003e Necessity not Always the Mother.--Wants of Various Kinds.--\u003cbr\u003e Accident.--Governmental Protection the Greatest Incentive.--\u003cbr\u003e Origin and Growth of Patent Laws.--Influence of Personal,\u003cbr\u003e Political and Intellectual Freedom and Education.--Arts of\u003cbr\u003e Civilization Due to the Inventor.--Macaulay's Estimate.--\u003cbr\u003e Will Inventions Continue to Increase or Decrease.--Effect of\u003cbr\u003e Economic, Industrial and Social Life upon Inventions.--What\u003cbr\u003e Inventions have Done for Humanity.--Thread of the Centuries.--\u003cbr\u003e The Roll of Inventions too Vast for Enumeration.                      1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAGRICULTURE AND ITS IMPLEMENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Egyptians the Earliest and Greatest Agriculturists.--\u003cbr\u003e Rome and Farming.--Cato, Varro, Virgil.--Columella.--Pliny.--\u003cbr\u003e Palladius.--The Decline of Agriculture.--Northern Barbarism.--\u003cbr\u003e Lowest Ebb in the Middle Ages.--Revival in the Fifteenth and\u003cbr\u003e Sixteenth Centuries.--With Invention of Printing.--Publications\u003cbr\u003e then, Concerning.--Growth in Seventeenth and Eighteenth\u003cbr\u003e Centuries.--Jethro Tull.--Arthur Young.--Washington.--\u003cbr\u003e Jefferson.--The Art Scientifically Commenced with Sir Humphry\u003cbr\u003e Davy's Lectures on Soils and Plants, 1802-1812.--Societies.--\u003cbr\u003e \"Book Farming\" and Prejudice of Farmers.--A Revisit of Ruth\u003cbr\u003e and Cincinnatus at Beginning of Nineteenth Century.--Their\u003cbr\u003e Implements still the Common Ones in Use.--The Plough and its\u003cbr\u003e History.--Its Essential Parts and their Evolution to Modern\u003cbr\u003e Forms.--Originated in Holland.--Growth in England and\u003cbr\u003e America.--Small, Jefferson, Newbold.--Lord Kames' Complaint.--\u003cbr\u003e The American Plough.--Cutting Disks.--Steam Ploughs: Implements\u003cbr\u003e for Preparing the Soil for Planting.--Various Forms of Harrows.      13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Sowing of Grain.--The Sower of the Parables.--His Art and\u003cbr\u003e its Defects Lasted until Nineteenth Century.--The Problems to\u003cbr\u003e be Solved.--Assyrian and Chinese Seeding Implements.--India.--\u003cbr\u003e Italy First to Introduce a Grain Sowing Machine, Seventeenth\u003cbr\u003e Century.--Zanon's Work on Agriculture, 1764.--Austria and\u003cbr\u003e England.--A Spaniard's Invention.--Don Lescatello.--The Drill\u003cbr\u003e of Jethro Tull.--A Clergyman, Cooke's Machine.--Washington\u003cbr\u003e and Others.--Modern Improvements in Seeders and their Operation\u003cbr\u003e and Functions.--Force Feed and Gravity Feed.--Graduated Flow.--\u003cbr\u003e Divided Feeds for Separate Grains and Fertilizing Material.--\u003cbr\u003e Garden Ploughs and Seeders.--Gangs of Heavy Ones.--Operated by\u003cbr\u003e Steam.--Corn Planters.--Walking and Riding.--Objects of Proper\u003cbr\u003e Planting.--How Accomplished by Machinery.--Variety of\u003cbr\u003e Machines.--Potatoes and the Finest Seeds.--Transplanters.--\u003cbr\u003e Cultivators.--Their Purposes and Varieties.--Primitive and\u003cbr\u003e Modern Toilers.--Millet.--Tillers of the Soil no Longer\u003cbr\u003e \"Brothers of the Ox.\"                                                23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAGRICULTURAL INVENTIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Harvesting in Ancient Times.--The Sickle.--Pliny's Machine.--\u003cbr\u003e Now the Clover Header.--Palladius' Description.--Improved in\u003cbr\u003e 1786.--Scotchman's Grain Cradle in 1794.--The Seven Ancient\u003cbr\u003e Wonders and the Seven Modern Wonders.--The Modern Harvester\u003cbr\u003e and the Cotton Gin.--Requirements of the Harvester.--Boyce.--\u003cbr\u003e Meares.--Plucknett.--Gladstone and the First Front Draft\u003cbr\u003e Machine, 1806.--Salonen introduced Vibrating Knives over\u003cbr\u003e Stationary Blades, 1807.--Ogle and Reciprocating Knife Bar,\u003cbr\u003e 1822.--Rev. Patrick Bell, 1823, Cuts an Acre of Grain in an\u003cbr\u003e Hour.--Mowers and Reapers in America in 1820.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121010753776,"sku":"2940013145627","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013145627_p0.jpg?v=1763577409","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013145627","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}