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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 69

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s of his little fleet against theimmovable shores of a new world. Gunpowder was inuse—the mariners compass was a fact. The curtainwhich had fallen on the nations when the barbariansswarmed over the sacred city again rose on a newact in the drama of Human Progress. Invention, whichhad been… … CHAPTEE Y GUNPOWDEE; OR, THE NEW BIETH OF INVENTION. THE world has never done justice to the part whichgunpowder has played in the awakening and theestablishing of our modern civilization. Perhaps hadnot this explosive made its appearance, at this verymoment, when steamers are ploughing across the…

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