Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century
A popular survey of nineteenth-century inventions written by Frederick C. Bakewell and issued by D. Appleton in New York in 1860 for general readers following industrial progress. Wood-engraved diagrams show steam hammers, turbines, gearing and telegraph circuits in section and elevation, with hatched shading, lettered keys and flow arrows useful for technical-drawing motifs and machine silhouettes.
