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: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Inventions; Juvenile literature; Inventors; Navigation; Printing; Weather forecasting; Microscopes; Steam-engines
Notes: "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.