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A collection of essays on various inventions and scientific discoveries, this volume of Little Masterpieces of Science from 1902 includes topics such as the discovery of electricity, the invention of the telegraph, the telephone, Roentgen rays, and other advances. - Summary by J. M. Smallheer
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
04:16 - Chapter 2
Franklin Identifies Lightning with Electricity
07:11 - Chapter 3
Faraday's Discoveries Leading Up to the Electric Dynamo and Motor
26:55 - Chapter 4
Professor Joseph Henry's Invention of the Electric Telegraphc
13:57 - Chapter 5
The First Atlantic Cables
20:12 - Chapter 6
Bell's Telephonic Researches
36:55 - Chapter 7
Photographing the Unseen: The Roentgen Ray
30:36 - Chapter 8
The Wireless Telegraph
27:13 - Chapter 9
Electricity, What Its Mastery Means: With a Review and a Propect
51:54 - Chapter 10
Count Rumford Identifies Heat with Motion
13:07 - Chapter 11
Victory of the "Rocket" Locomotive
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