Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Anonymous

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       LONDON AS A PORT.

       FOURDRINIER'S PAPER-MAKING MACHINERY.

       THE COCOA-NUT CRAB.

       DESCARTES' WOODEN DAUGHTER.

       ASTRONOMICAL SHOEMAKER.

       DECLINE OF SCIENCE.

       VARIABLE CLIMATE OF TEBREEZ.

       STRYCHNINE A REMEDY FOR PARALYSIS.

       RAPID MANUFACTURE.

       DISCOVERIES ANTICIPATED.

       THE FIRST USE OF JESUIT'S BARK.

       NICE ROBBERY.

       FEMALE MATHEMATICIAN.

       FOURIER'S INDEPENDENCE.

       MECHANICAL TRIUMPHS.

       THE ELGIN MARBLES.

       RALEIGH A CHEMIST.

       MR. BABBAGE'S CALCULATING MACHINE.

       HERSCHEL'S LOVE OF MUSIC.

       POWER OF THE LEVER.

       AN ELECTRIFYING MACHINE IN PERSIA.

       HOW TO MEASURE THE SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE.

       THE DRUMMOND LIGHT.

       ST. PIERRE'S "PAUL AND VIRGINIA."

       MYTHOLOGY OF SCIENCE.

       EL DORADO OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

       AMBER, A SOURCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

       ANTIQUITY OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.

       HOW THE DEAF MAY HEAR.

       DRYING WOOD FOR VIOLINS.

       COLUMBUS'S OWN SHIP JOURNAL.

       EARLY INCITEMENTS TO A SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF NATURE.

       THE RIGHTS OF WHITEBAIT.

       CATCHING ELECTRIC EELS.

       SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL'S FIRST TELESCOPE.

       WONDERS OF AUSTRALIA.

       VICISSITUDES OF MINING.

       TROPICAL DELIGHTS.

       INVENTION OF THE DIVING-BELL.

       EXPERIMENTS WITH AN ELECTRIC EEL.

       TALENT AND OPPORTUNITY.

       TRAVELLING IN THE HIMALEH MOUNTAINS.

       GOLD IN SIBERIA.

       COMBINATIONS OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE.

       "THE MEANS TO THE END."

       INDIA RUBBER, A CENTURY AND A HALF SINCE.

       BALLOON VOYAGE FROM LONDON TO NASSAU.

       ANTIQUITY OF REFINED SUGAR.

       CLEARNESS OF THE SKY AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

       INTRODUCTION OF THE POTATO.

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