[Gutenberg 43965] • Invention: The Master-key to Progress

Subject: Inventions History

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Invention in Primeval Times 1

II. Invention in the Orient 24

III. Invention in Greece 51

IV. Invention in Rome: Its Rise and Fall 81

V. Invention of the Gun and of Printing 101

VI. Columbus, Copernicus, Galileo and Others 125

VII. The Rise of Electricity, Steam and Chemistry 148

VIII. The Age of Steam, Napoleon and Nelson 179

IX. Inventions in Steam, Electricity, and Chemistry Create a Dangerous Era 203

X. Certain Important Creations of Invention, and Their Beneficent Influence 231

XI. Invention and Growth of Liberal Government and American Civil War 255

XII. Invention of the Modern Military Machine, Telephone, Phonograph and Preventive Medicine 279

XIII. The Conquest of the Ether—Moving Pictures—Rise of Japan and the United States 301

XIV. The Fruition of Invention 322

XV. The Machine of Civilization, and the Dangerous Ignorance Concerning it, Shown by Statesmen 333

XVI. The Future 341