Our Wonderful Progress: The World's Triumphant Knowledge and Works
Subtitle: A Vast Treasury and Compendium of the Achievements of Man and the Works of Nature
By: Edited by Trumbull White
Publisher: Allied Printing Trades Council
Published: 1902
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng; fre
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 768
Copyright date: 1902
Table of contents: label: Dedication
title: 7; label: Preface
title: 9; label: Introduction
title: 21; title: Book I. The Industrial Age.; label: Wireless Telegraphy, a Triumph of Modern Discovery
title: 33; label: The Railway, the World's Greatest Industry
title: 41; label: Great Railway Consolidations
title: 49; label: The Greatest Freight Transfer Yards in the World
title: 53; label: The American Industrial Invasion of Europe
title: 57; label: Ocean Traffic Its Stupendous Growth
title: 63; label: Shipping on the Great Lakes
title: 67; label: The Great Industries of the Seas and Lakes
title: 73; label: Progress in Methods of Naval Warfare
title: 81; label: Maximite, the New Explosive
title: 86; label: Naval Battles in the Future
title: 89; label: The Submarine Vessel
title: 91; label: Floating Docks for Men-of-War
title: 93; label: The First Cable Across the Pacific Ocean
title: 95; label: Unique Novelty in Hotel Construction
title: 98; label: Iron and Steel Industries
title: 101; label: Coal Mining and Coke Making
title: 109; label: Zinc and Other Products of the Mines
title: 119; label: The City "Sky-Scraper"
title: 121; label: Great Offices for Great Businesses
title: 129; label: Phases of Street Life in a Great City
title: 131; label: The Chicago Stock Yards The World's Meat-Market
title: 134; label: Great Packing-Houses of Chicago
title: 137; label: How a Great City Is Fed
title: 145; label: Tapioca and Cassava from the Manioc
title: 148; label: Lumbering in American Forests
title: 151; label: Textile Fabrics in America
title: 157; label: Paper, its History, and How It Is Made
title: 161; label: How a Great Newspaper Is Made
title: 167; label: How Books and Magazines Are Illustrated
title: 172; label: Locomotives and Their Construction
title: 175; label: Power, Its Development and Transmission
title: 179; label: Up-to-Date Methods in Farming
title: 184; label: Glass and Its Uses
title: 187; label: The Work of the Potter
title: 189; label: How Pianos Have Multiplied
title: 190; label: The World's Big Canals
title: 194; label: Financial Methods of Today
title: 201; label: Where Our Money Is Made
title: 205; label: Eight Million Dollars in One Check
title: 207; label: Orange Groves and Their Products
title: 209; label: Olive Orchards and the Olive Industry
title: 213; label: Coffee, Tea and Chocolate
title: 215; label: Beet Sugar and Cane Sugar
title: 220; label: Opium and Its Production
title: 226; label: Tobacco Raising and Cigar Making
title: 228; label: How Trunks Are Made
title: 235; label: Salt and Its Production
title: 239; label: Flour and Flour Mills
title: 244; label: Ice, Artificial and Natural
title: 248; label: Ivory, How Obtained and Used
title: 251; label: Ostrich Farms in Africa and California
title: 255; title: Book II. The World's Science and Invention.; label: Air-Ships a Success
title: 257; title: Triumphs of Photography 260; label: The Automobile and Its Development
title: 264; label: The Roentgen or "X" Rays
title: 267; label: Modern Developments of Electricity
title: 270; label: Basket Making by Machinery
title: 275; label: Liquid Air
title: 277; label: Luxfer Prisms as Light Transmitters
title: 279; label: The Weather Bureau and Its Work
title: 281; label: Moving Pictures and How They Are Made
title: 285; label: The Phonograph and Its Uses
title: 287; label: Compressed Air and Pneumatic Tubes
title: 288; label: Great and Famous Telescopes
title: 290; label: Size of Greatest Telescopes in the World
title: 292; label: Telephones, Their Mechanism and Development
title: 292; label: Telephoning Without Wire
title: 297; label: Perpetual Motion Machines
title: 302; label: Clocks Which Furnish Light
title: 303; label: Acetylene Gas
title: 305; label: Finding Value in Cornstalks
title: 306; label: Saving Gold from Soot
title: 308; label: The Mariner's Compass
title: 309; label: The Nautical Almanac and Its Importance
title: 312; label: Thermometers and the Measures of Temperature
title: 315; label: Rouen's Air Ferry, Oddest of Bridges
title: 318; title: Book III. Noteworthy Facts Of All Nations.; label: Settlements and Migrations of Nationalities in the United States
title: 321; label: Greatest Facts in the History of the United States
title: 323; label: How Immigrants Come to America
title: 325; label: Immigration Statistics
title: 328; label: Our American Archives and National Institutions
title: 328; label: Population Areas of the United States
title: 329; label: Facts About Our Postal Service
title: 331; label: Peary and the North Pole
title: 334; label: The Region of the Yukon
title: 337; label: Great Fur-Trading Companies of Canada
title: 338; label: The Walled City of the North
title: 340; label: Pilgrims and Shrines in Canada
title: 341; label: North American Totemism
title: 343; label: Bermuda, the Island of Lilies and Onions
title: 345; label: Negro Life in the Bahamas
title: 346; label: Cuba's First President
title: 348; label: Santo Domingo The Bones of Columbus
title: 351; label: Voodoo Worship in Haiti
title: 353; label: The Cocoanut and Its Uses
title: 354; label: Porto Rico and Its Characteristics
title: 355; label: Saint Helena The Island of Exiles
title: 357; label: Danish West Indies
title: 357; label: Where Mexican Rulers Dwell
title: 358; label: Mines of Riches in Mexico
title: 359; label: Pulque, the National Drink of Mexico
title: 361; label: Mysterious Copan, a City of the Dead in Honduras
title: 363; label: Quito, the Strangest City in the World
title: 364; label: Lima, the City of Mud
title: 366; label: Bolivia, the Backward Republic
title: 367; label: Climbing the Highest American Mountain
title: 368; label: Prosperity in the Argentine Republic
title: 369; label: Paraguay and Its History of Violence
title: 371; label: India Rubber in the Brazilian Forests
title: 371; label: London, the World's Metropolis
title: 373; label: The Tower of London
title: 376; label: Interesting Facts Concerning Great Britain
title: 378; label: The Cathedrals of England
title: 379; label: Welsh Eisteddfods, Bards and Druids
title: 380; label: The Round Towers of Ireland
title: 381; label: Castles of France
title: 383; label: Catacombs of Paris
title: 385; label: Fontainebleau
title: 387; label: Belgium's Great Trade
title: 389; label: Holland's Abandoned Cities
title: 389; label: Martin Luther's Prison, Wartburg Castle
title: 391; label: The Kremlin of Moscow
title: 394; label: Hungarian Gipsies
title: 397; label: The Referendum of Switzerland
title: 399; label: Geneva and Its Lake
title: 400; label: The Vatican
title: 401; label: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
title: 402; label: Cork in Portugal and Spain
title: 403; label: Gibraltar
title: 404; label: The Island of Crete
title: 406; label: The Strange Sea Mills of Cephalonia, in Greece
title: 406; label: Life in a Turkish Harem
title: 409; label: Egypt as It Is Today
title: 411; label: Recent Discoveries in Egyptian Antiquities
title: 413; label: The Great Pyramids of Egypt
title: 415; label: The Troglodytes of Africa
title: 417; label: Liberia, the American Colony in Africa
title: 418; label: Pygmies in Central Africa
title: 419; label: Who Are the Boers?
title: 421; label: The Diamond Mines of Kimberley
title: 423; label: Abyssinia and Its Ancient Christian Faith
title: 426; label: The Railway Race for the Indian Ocean
title: 428; label: Dancing and Howling Dervishes
title: 430; label: Pilgrims to Mecca
title: 433; label: Mountains and Oil Wells of the Caucasus
title: 436; label: Afghanistan, the "Buffer Nation"
title: 437; label: Bokhara and Central Asia
title: 439; label: Tibet, the Hermit Nation
title: 439; label: The Yogi of India
title: 440; label: The Island Temples of India
title: 441; label: Siam and Its Strange People
title: 444; label: Chinese Food and Cookery
title: 447; label: Chinese Beggars
title: 451; label: Russia's Port on the Pacific
title: 453; label: Korea and Its Awakening
title: 455; label: The Temples of Nikko, Japan
title: 457; label: Secret Societies in the Philippines
title: 459; label: Borneo and Its White Rajah
title: 460; label: Three Centuries of War in the East Indies
title: 461; label: The United States of Australia
title: 463; label: New Zealand, the Land of Liberal Laws
title: 465; label: Tutuila, Our Samoan Island
title: 467; label: Hawaii, the "Paradise of the Pacific"
title: 468; label: The Leper Island of Molokai
title: 469; label: Robinson Crusoe's Island, Juan Fernandez
title: 470; label: In the Falkland Islands
title: 472; label: Easter Island and Its Strange Ruins
title: 472; label: The Mutineers of the "Bounty"
title: 473; label: French Islands in the Pacific Ocean
title: 474; label: Fiji and Its People
title: 476; label: The Island of Guam
title: 477; label: Tasmania, Past and Present
title: 478; title: Book IV. Amazing Wonders of Nature.; label: Greenland and Its Glaciers
title: 481; label: Iceland and Its Geysers
title: 481; label: The Great Lava Desert of Iceland
title: 483; label: The Gulf Stream
title: 483; label: The Maelstrom
title: 484; label: The Spectre of the Brocken
title: 485; label: Famous Fountains of Palestine
title: 486; label: Saghalien, a Paradox of Climate
title: 487; label: The Arabian Desert
title: 488; label: The Great Trees of California
title: 489; label: How Glaciers and Icebergs are Made
title: 491; label: Trinidad and Its Bituminous Lake
title: 495; label: Death Valley
title: 496; label: Borax and Its Production
title: 499; label: The Grand Canyon of Arizona
title: 502; label: The Dakota "Bad Lands"
title: 507; label: Crater Lake, an Oregon Wonder
title: 509; label: Cause of Earthquakes and Volcanoes
title: 511; label: Famous Volcanic and Earthquake Disasters
title: 515; label: Around the South Pole
title: 519; label: Mines of Ice in Arizona
title: 521; label: Little Planets in Our Solar System
title: 522; label: Great Caves of the World
title: 524; label: The Land of the Midnight Sun
title: 527; label: Niagara Falls
title: 539; label: Wonders of the Deep Sea
title: 532; label: Extinct Monsters
title: 535; label: Man and Nature Before the Deluge
title: 541; title: Book V. Things We All Should Know.; label: Civil Service and Its Laws
title: 545; label: Compulsory Education
title: 548; label: Child Labor Laws
title: 549; label: Standard Time Over the World
title: 549; label: Public Libraries, Their Growth and Administration
title: 551; label: American Colleges and Their Growth
title: 553; label: American College Sports
title: 556; label: Ocean, Lake and Mountain Resorts
title: 559; label: Winter Sports in Northern Cities
title: 559; label: Horse Racing the World Over
title: 563; label: Armies and Wars of the World Today
title: 565; label: The German Emperor's American Yacht
title: 568; label: The Second and Greater Brooklyn Bridge
title: 569; label: How Maps and Globes Are Made
title: 570; label: Watches and Clocks
title: 573; label: Mirrors and Their Manufacture
title: 570; label: Art Work in Brass
title: 578; label: Bells and How They Are Made
title: 580; label: How Artesian Wells Are Bored
title: 583; label: Discoveries in Medicine and the Prolongation of Life
title: 585; label: Special Cults and Cures
title: 587; label: Systems of Medical Treatment
title: 588; label: Elements of Physical Health
title: 589; label: The Pulse in Health
title: 590; label: Contagious and Eruptive Diseases
title: 590; label: First Aid to the Injured
title: 591; label: Antidotes for Poisons
title: 591; label: Special Poisons and Antidotes
title: 592; label: Rules in Case of Fire
title: 592; label: Accidents in the United States
title: 593; label: Life and Death Rates
title: 593; label: Cremation
title: 593; label: Legal Facts and Forms
title: 594; label: Single Tax, Its Meaning and Its Theories
title: 598; label: How Fires Are Extinguished
title: 599; label: Asbestos Cloth That Will Not Bum
title: 601; label: Mineral Wool and Its Uses
title: 604; label: How Artificial Silk Is Made
title: 606; label: Buttons, Their Invention and Manufacture
title: 607; label: In a Type Foundry
title: 610; label: Binding Twine Made from Manila Hemp
title: 614; label: How Varnish Is Made
title: 616; label: Beeswax and How It Is Prepared
title: 619; label: Tar and Its Uses in the Sciences
title: 620; label: Turpentine and Resin
title: 623; label: Dyes from Coal
title: 625; label: Carbon Black and Its Uses
title: 627; label: Pearls from American Rivers
title: 628; label: Precious Stones, Real and Artificial
title: 632; label: Value of Diamonds
title: 637; label: How Sheet Music Is Printed
title: 638; label: Ropes and Rope-Making
title: 641; label: Shoddy What It Is and How Made
title: 643; label: Broom-Corn and Broom Making
title: 646; label: Wire and Its Manifold Uses
title: 649; label: Fireworks and Their Manufacture
title: 651; label: Match Making in Various Countries
title: 654; label: Veneers for Fine Furniture
title: 657; label: Graphite and Lead Pencils
title: 659; label: How Rubber Goods Are Made
title: 663; label: Barrels and Kegs
title: 666; label: Seeds and How to Test Them
title: 669; label: Eggs and How They Are Inspected
title: 672; label: Mince Meat Made by Machinery
title: 674; label: Butterine and Oleomargarine
title: 676; label: Peanuts and Their Uses
title: 679; label: In a Macaroni Factory
title: 681; label: Vinegar and Its Manufacture
title: 683; label: How Fruit Flavoring Extracts Are Made
title: 685; label: Extract of Beef and Its Preparation
title: 688; label: Pepsin and Its Production
title: 690; label: Starch and How It Is Made
title: 691; label: Glucose and How It Is Made
title: 693; label: Rock Candy and How It Is Made
title: 696; label: Common Food Adulterations
title: 698; label: Baking Powder, Pure and Adulterated
title: 700; label: Adulteration in Alcoholic Liquors
title: 703; label: Toilet Preparations from the Tropics
title: 706; label: American Progress in Twenty Years
title: 707; label: The Principal Planets
title: 709; label: Strength of Various Substances
title: 710; label: The Average Velocities of Various Bodies
title: 710; label: How to Mix Paint for Tints
title: 710; label: United States Postal Regulations
title: 711; label: Center of Population in the United States
title: 712; label: Public Lands in the United States
title: 712; label: National Park Reserves in the United States
title: 712; label: Grain Production of United States
title: 713; label: Number of Farm Animals in the United States
title: 713; label: Number of Farm Animals in the Various States
title: 713; label: Hogs Packed and Marketed
title: 714; label: World's Production of Wheat
title: 714; title: World's Production of Wool 714; label: Cane and Beet Sugar of the World
title: 715; label: Pounds Per Bushel
title: 715; label: Comparative Yield of Various Vegetables
title: 715; label: Ages to Which Animals Live
title: 715; label: Value of Foreign Coins
title: 716; label: Average of Wealth for Each Inhabitant
title: 716; label: Consumption of Liquor Throughout the World
title: 716; label: Anniversaries, Historical
title: 717; label: Table of Memorable Dates
title: 717; label: Marriage Anniversaries
title: 718; label: The States and the Union
title: 719; label: The Electoral Vote in 1904
title: 719; label: The Civil War of 1861-65
title: 719; label: Wars of the United States
title: 720; label: Number of Pensioners and Amount of Pensions
title: 720; label: Military Resources of Europe
title: 721; label: Great Libraries of the World
title: 721; label: Illiteracy Statistics
title: 721; label: Heights' of Waterfalls
title: 721; label: Religions and Denominations of the World
title: 722; label: Largest Cities of the Earth
title: 724; label: The World's Highest Mountains
title: 726; title: Heights of Tallest Monuments, Towers and Steeples 726; title: Lengths of the World's Principal Rivers 726; title: Area and Depth of the Oceans 727; title: Races of Mankind 728; title: Gazetteer of the World 729; label: Index
title: 753