The Wonders of Modern Invention
Subtitle: Containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of wireless telegraphy, liquid air, modern artillery, submarines,dirigible torpedoes, etc.
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co.
Published: 1914
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 181
Description: This is a scaled-down version of the author's more extensive work "The Romance of Modern Invention" intended for younger readers. Nevertheless it is a good adult read also and contains interesting black and white photographs and line drawings. The modern-day reader can recognize many of the inventions, even if the bizarre-sounding names are now unfamiliar.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I      Wireless Telegraphy; title: Chapter II     High-speed Telegraphy; title: Chapter III    The Telephone - Wireless Telephony; title: Chapter IV    The Phonograph - The Photographophone - The Telephonograph; title: Chapter V     The Telewriter; title: Chapter VI    Modern Artillery - Rifles - Machine Guns - Heavy Ordnance - Explosives - In the Gun; title: Factory; title: Chapter VII   Dirigible  Torpedoes; title: Chapter VIII  Submarine Boats