Invention and Discovery

A fascinating collection of scientific stories and inventions are included.

Some of what is included:

Banks', Sir Joseph, Balance 37
Benefit of a Wife to an Author 40
Black, Dr., The Death of 133
Brindley the Engineer 43
Brongniart's Early Life 33
Brougham's, Lord, Scientific Blunders 90
Buckingham Palace Gates 37
Burning Mirrors of Archimedes, The 140
Carnot when a Child 23
Catching Electric Eels 74
Character of Engineers in their Works 43
Clearness of the Sky at the Cape of Good Hope 88
Coal Gas in Balloons, Use of 21
Cocoa-Nut Crab, The 50
Coffee-Tree, Transportation of the 127
Columbus' own Ship-Journal 70
Crawshays of Merthyr Tydvil, The 15
Cuvier and Napoleon 21
Cuvier, Childhood of 25
Cuvier, Homage to 14
Cuvier in London 39
Davy, Sir Humphry, Death of 13
Davy, Sir Humphry, as an Angler 93
Deaf, The, How they may Hear 68
Decline of Science, The 52
Dee, Dr., The Necromancer 117
Descartes' "Wooden Daughter" 51
Descent in a Diving-Bell, A 92
Diamonds, Celebrated 114
Discoveries Anticipated 54
Diving-Bell, First Use of the 103
Drummond Light, The 62
Drying Wood for Violins 69
Drymaking in Holland, A 137
Early Incitements (Humboldt's) to Study of Nature 72
Earthquakes, in Chile 38
Earthquakes, How to Measure 62
Electricity, The Velocity of 155