Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young
John Timbs's popular history of inventors and their machines, issued by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1860 for general readers young and old. Wood engravings mix half-length portraits of inventors, a man working a small hand press, hydrogen balloons above crowded fields, and diagrammatic cranes and cofferdams, all worked in dense parallel hatching useful for period technical vignettes.
