Modern triumphs
By: selected & arranged by Eva March Tappan
Series: The children's hour -- v. 14; Children's hour (Houghton, Mifflin and Company) -- v. 14
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Technology; Juvenile literature; Civil engineering; Technologie; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Notes: Illustrated lining-papers.
Table of contents: title: The March To The North Pole / Robert E. Peary; title: One Hundred And Fifty-Five Million Dollars To Enter New York / H.A. Buck; title: Difficult Engineering In The New York Subway / Frank W. Skinner; title: "It Had To Be Done" / Carlyle Ellis; title: Building American Bridges In Mid-Africa / A.B. Lueder; title: The Greatest Stell Arch In The World / A. Russell Bond; title: Fets Of Modern Railroad Engineering / Henry Harrison Lewis; title: A Railway Over The Sea / Frederick A. Talbot; title: The Greatest Railroad Terminal In The World / Edward Hungerford; title: The Great Mississippi Dam / Harry Bristol Kirkland; title: The Highest Dam In The World / George Frederic Stratton; title: Niagara Under Yoke / J. Macdonald Oxley; title: When The Panama Canal Was A-Building / Alfred B. Hall; title: The Heroes Of The Gunnison Tunnel / A.W. Rolker in collaboration with Day Allen Willey; title: The Rescue Of The Titanic Survivors By The Carpathia, April 15, 1912 / Captain Arthur H. Rostrom; title: A Newspaper Feat / Alexander McD. Stoddard; title: The Mechanism Of The Submarine / Fredrick A. Talbot; title: How The Submarine F-4 Was Lifted / Lieut.-Com. Julius Augustus Furer; title: The building Of a Skyscraper / Francis Arnold Collins; title: The Making Of Automobiles / Herbert Ladd Towle; title: About Zeppelins / T.R. MacMechen and Carl Deinstbach; title: The Wrights And The Airship / Rupert S. Holland; title: What Every One Should Know About the Aëroplane / Montague Palmer; title: How The Atlantic Cable Was Laid / Cyrus W. Field; title: The Birth And Babyhood Of The Telephone / Thomas A. Watson; title: Making A World's Record In A Crisis / H.V. Bicknell; title: Throwing The Voice Across The Continent / Walter S. Hiatt; title: Talking 4900 Miles By Wireless / From "Telephone Topics"; title: Telegraphing Without Wires / Russell Doubleday; title: Edison And The Electric Light / Rupert S. Holland; title: On The Trail Of The Red Letter / Harold J. Howland; title: Peopling A Territory In Two Houses / Cy Warman; title: Building Towns To Order / Henry Harrison Lewis; title: The Department Store At Close Range / Hartley Davis; title: Scientific Managment / Cleveland Moffett; title: Adrift On An Ice-Pan / Wilfred Thomason Grenfall; title: The Red Cross Society / Alice Perkins Coville; title: The Red Cross At The Johnstown Flood / Clara Barton; title: The Red Cross In The Balkan War; title: E.J. Ramsbotham.