Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches. Anonymous

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ORIGIN OF THE TELEGRAPH.

       NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.

       A "DRY-MAKING" IN HOLLAND.

       A SCIENTIFIC PILGRIM.

       THE BURNING MIRRORS OF ARCHIMEDES.

       MAGNETIC CORRESPONDENCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

       NAVIGATION BEFORE THE COMPASS.

       SEMAPHORE v. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

       A WRENCH TO OLD ST. PAUL'S.

       SNOW SPECTACLES.

       A SELF-TAUGHT MECHANIST.

       THE AMSTERDAM PILE.

       THE PERILS OF EXPERIMENT.

       THE SIBERIAN MAMMOTH REMAINS.

       VELOCITY OF ELECTRICITY.

       MONOCHROMATIC PAINTING.

       THE MARINER'S COMPASS.

       THE DISCOVERY OF LITHOGRAPHY.

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Alchemists, The Last of the 110
Alpine Perils—Professor Forbes on 30
Amber an Article of International Trade 66
Amsterdam Pile, The 150
Antiquity of Lightning Conductors 67
Antiquity of Refined Sugar 87
Arkwright's Spinning Frame 128
Art of Stereotype, The 105
Artesian Well of Grenelle, The 132
Ascent of the Jungfrau Alp, by Forbes, &c. 44
Astronomical Shoemaker, An 51
Babbage's Calculating Machine 59
Balloon Travelling, Rate of 103
Balloon Voyage from London to Nassau 86
Banks', Sir Joseph, Balance 37
Benefit of a Wife to an Author 40
Black, Dr., The Death of 133
Brindley the Engineer 43
Brongniart's Early Life 33
Brougham's, Lord, Scientific Blunders 90
Buckingham Palace Gates 37
Burning Mirrors of Archimedes, The 140
Carnot when a Child 23
Catching Electric Eels 74

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