The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 26
was before it. It is a long way from the harpoon wrought from thehorn of a stag to the harpoon-gun now in use; long wasthe route, and numerous and vexatious the delays; but^as we shall see, the route has been traveled; the cen-turies have all been bridged and crossed; aU the centurieswhich lie… … ADVENT OF INVENTION. Z6 chipped flint, or palaeolithic age; that is to say, it is notthe fact that simultaneously among all the tribes, allover the earth, men used roughly-fashioned flints forimplements of the war or the chase. On the contrary,this palaeolithic period is still in existence. It v^as…
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