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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

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en made thatsynthetical chemistry would in the nearfuture produce the food of man, andthus relegate agriculture to the domainof the useless or forgotten arts, is, how-ever, wholly without scientific founda-tion. The function of the farmer willnot be usurped by the chemist. Thefuture will see the… … SIR HENRY BESSEMER. VI. METALLURGICAL CHEMISTRY. This is the oldest branch of chemicalscience, and naturally the one whichwas furthest advanced at the beginning of the century. Nevertheless, theadvances which the past one hundred years have seen in this science aremost surprising. Gold and silver…

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