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Table of Contents:

• The golden age of invention
• Part I. Blue ribbon projects. Chapter 1. Rudolf Diesel and the fire piston ; Chapter 2. Samuel Morse and the telegraph ; Chapter 3. Squire Whipple and the truss bridge ; Chapter 4. Lee de Forest and the amplifier ; Chapter 5. August Möbius and the Möbius strip
• Part II. Inspired by Hephaestus. Chapter 6. Hans Goldschmidt and the invention of thermite ; Chapter 7. The Brothers Lumiėre and the motion picture ; Chapter 8. Chester Rice and the loudspeaker ; Chapter 9. Joseph McKibben and the air muscle ; Chapter 10. Sir George Cayley and the glider
• Appendix: going further, deeper, and higher
• The inventor's workshop
• Ideas for further study.

Author/Creator:

Gurstelle, William , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Make: reMaking history [by Gurstelle, W.] > Volume 3, Makers of the modern world

Related Works:

Make (Sebastopol, Calif.)

Subjects:

Technology — History

Inventions — History

Inventors — History

Engineering — History

Industrial arts — History

Do-it-yourself work

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xix, 170 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

T15 .G873 2017

ISBNs:

9781680450729
1680450727

OCLC Numbers:

951763139