太子爷小说网 > 英语电子书 > the age of invention >

第34节

the age of invention-第34节

小说: the age of invention 字数: 每页4000字

按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页,按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页,按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部!
————未阅读完?加入书签已便下次继续阅读!




CHAPTER VI

An account of an early 〃agent of communication〃 is given by W。 F。 Bailey; article on the 〃Pony Express〃 in 〃The Century Magazine〃; vol。 XXXIV (1898)。 For the story of the telegraph and its inventors; see: S。 I。 Prime; 〃Life of Samuel F。 B。 Morse〃 (1875); S。 F。 B。 Morse; 〃The Electro…Magnetic Telegraph〃 (1858) and 〃Examination of the Telegraphic Apparatus and the Process in Telegraphy〃 (1869); Guglielmo Marconi; 〃The Progress of Wireless Telegraphy〃 (1912) in the 〃Transactions of the New York Electrical Society〃; no。 15; and Ray Stannard Baker; 〃Marconi's Achievement〃 in McClure's Magazine; vol。 XVIII (1902)。 On the telephone; see Herbert N。 Casson; 〃History of the Telephone〃 (1910); and Alexander Graham Bell; 〃The Telephone〃 (1878)。 On the cable: Charles Bright; 〃The Story of the Atlantic Cable〃 (1903)。 For facts in the history of printing and descriptions of printing machines; see: Edmund G。 Gress; 〃American Handbook of Printing〃 (1907); Robert Hoe; 〃A Short History of the Printing Press and of the Improvements in Printing Machinery〃 (1902); and Otto Schoenrich; 〃Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler and History of the Linotype〃 (1898); written under Mr。 Mergenthaler's direction。 On the best…known New York newspapers; see: H。 Hapgood and A。 B。 Maurice; 〃The Great Newspapers of the United States; the New York Newspapers;〃 in 〃The Bookman〃; vols。 XIV and XV (1902)。 On the typewriter; see Charles Edward Weller; 〃The Early History of the Typewriter〃 (1918)。 On the camera; Paul Lewis Anderson; 〃The Story of Photography〃 (1918) in 〃The Mentor〃; vol。 vi; no。 19。; and on the motion picture; Colin N。 Bennett; 〃The Handbook of Kinematography〃; 〃The History; Theory and Practice of Motion Photography and Projection〃; London: 〃Kinematograph Weekly〃 (1911)。

CHAPTER VII

For information on the subject of rubber and the life of Charles Goodyear; see: H。 Wickham; 〃On the Plantation; Cultivation and Curing of Para Indian Rubber〃; London (1908); Francis Ernest Lloyd; 〃Guayule; a Rubber Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert〃; Washington (1911); Carnegie Institute publication no。 139; Charles Goodyear; 〃Gum Elastic and Its Varieties〃 (1853) ; James Parton; 〃Famous Americans of Recent Times〃 (1867); and 〃The Rubber Industry; Being the Official Report of the Proceedings of the International Rubber Congress〃 (London; 1911); edited by Joseph Torey and A。 Staines Manders。

CHAPTER VIII

J。 W。 Roe; 〃English and American Tool Builders〃 (1916); and J。 V。 Woodworth; 〃American Tool Making and Interchangeable Manufacturing〃 (1911); give general accounts of great American mechanics。

For an account of John Stevens and Robert L。 and E。 A。 Stevens; see George Iles; 〃Leading American Inventors〃 (1912); Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of John Stevens and His Sons〃 in 〃Eminent Engineers〃 (1905); and R。 H。 Thurston; 〃The Messrs。 Stevens; of Hoboken; as Engineers; Naval Architects and Philanthropists〃 (1874); 〃Journal of the Franklin Institute〃; October; 1874。 For Whitney's contribution to machine shop methods; see Olmsted's 〃Memoir〃 already cited and Roe and Woodworth; already cited。 For Blanchard; see Dwight Goddard; 〃A Short Story of Thomas Blanchard〃 in 〃Eminent Engineers〃 (1905); and for Samuel Colt; see his own 〃On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered…Breech Fire Arms; and Their Peculiarities〃 (1855); an excerpt from the 〃Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers〃; vol。 XI (1853); and Henry Barnard; 〃Armsmear; the Home; the Arm; and the Armory of Samuel Colt〃 (1866)。 

CHAPTER IX

〃The Story of Electricity〃 (1919) is a popular history edited by T。 C。 Martin and S。 L。 Coles。 A more specialized account of electrical inventions may be found in George Bartlett Prescott's 〃The Speaking Telephone; Electric Light; and Other Recent Electrical Inventions〃 (1879)。

For Joseph Henry's achievements; see his own 〃Contributions to Electricity and Galvanism〃 (1835…42) and 〃On the Application of the Principle of the Galvanic Multiplier to Electromagnetic Apparatus〃 (1831); and the accounts of others in Henry C。 Cameron's 〃Reminiscences of Joseph Henry〃 and W。 B。 Taylor's 〃Historical Sketch of Henry's Contribution to the Electro…Magnetic Telegraph〃 (1879); Smithsonian Report; 1878。

〃A List of References on the Life and Inventions of Thomas A。 Edison 〃 may be found in the Division of Bibliography; U。 S。 Library of Congress (1916)。 See also F。 L。 Dyer and T。 C。 Martin; 〃Edison; His Life and Inventions〃 (1910); and 〃Mr。 Edison's Reminiscences of the First Central Station〃 in 〃The Electrical Review〃; vol。 XXXVIII。 On other special topics see: F。 E。 Leupp; 〃George Westinghouse; His Life and Achievements〃 (1918); Elihu Thomson; 〃Induction of Electric Currents and Induction Coils〃 (1891); 〃Journal of the Franklin Institute〃; August; 1891; and Alex Dow; 〃The Production of Electricity by Steam Power〃 (1917)。

CHAPTER X

Charles C。 Turner; 〃The Romance of Aeronautics〃 (1912); 〃The Curtiss Aviation Book〃; by Glenn H。 Curtiss and Augustus Post (1912); Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M。 Manly; 〃Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight〃 (Smithsonian Institution; 1911); 〃Our Atlantic Attempt〃; by H。 G。 Hawker and K。 Mackenzie Grieve (1919); 〃Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours〃; by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1920); 〃Practical Aeronautics〃; by Charles B。 Hayward; with an Introduction by Orville Wright (1912); 〃Aircraft; Its Development in War and Peace〃; by Evan J。 David (1919)。 Accounts of the flights across the Atlantic are given in 〃The Aerial Year Book and Who's Who in the Air〃 (1920); and the story of NC4 is told in 〃The Flight Across the Atlantic〃; issued by the Department of Education; Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation (1919)。







End  

返回目录 上一页 回到顶部 0 0

你可能喜欢的