A History of wonderful inventions
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Inventions; Juvenile literature; Inventors; Navigation; Printing; Weather forecasting; Microscopes; Steam-engines
Notes: Some illustrations are hand-colored.

Illustrations engraved and signed by H. Vizetelly.

"Illustrated with numerous engravings on wood."

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1]. The mariner's compass. Lighthouses. Gunpowder and gun-cotton. Clocks. Printing. The thermometer. The barometer. The telescope. The microscope; title: [v. 2]. The steam engine. The cotton manufacture. Steam-navigation. The railway. Gas-light. The electric telegraph.