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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 490

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is no other resource.Even as the motor of the iron-clad, it is engaged in amission of peace; for, the more effective and formidablebecome the implements and engines of war, the greateris the tendency to peace. In fine, within the last fifty years there has been amore rapid development of the… … CHAPTEE XXVI. ELECTKICITY AND ITS APPLIANCES. THEEE is no possible utility in a popular work likethe present one to attempt any explanation as tothe nature of electricity. One of the essential reasonsfor not attempting it is that its nature is unknown. Itsphenomena may be; but nothing more.…

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