topics: |  technology | history-modern | 19th-c | reference

Lots of images, block printings from the 19th c. Stories relating to the
discoverines (e.g. ships of war).

CONTENTS:
Steam engines. Iron. Tools. Railways. Steam navigation. Ships of
war. Fire-arms. Torpedoes. Ship canals. Iron bridges. Printing
machines. Hydraulic power. Pneumatic dispatch. Rock boring. Light. The
spectroscope. Sight. Electricity.  The electric
telegraph. Lighthouses. Photography. Printing processes. Recording
instruments. Aquaria. Gold and diamonds. New metals. India-rubber and
gutta-percha. Anaesthetics. Explosives.  Mineral
combustibles. Coal-gas. Coal-tar colours. The greatest discovery of the age.