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Title: Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Robert Routledge

Release date: April 2, 2017 [eBook #54475]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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PLATE I.

THE GREAT WHEEL IN ACTION.

DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed
Under the tumbling mountain’s breast,
In the safe herbal of the coal?
But when the quarried means were piled,
All is waste and worthless, till
Arrives the wise selecting Will,
And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
Draws the threads of fair and fit.
Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,
The shop of toil, the hall of arts;
Then flew the sail across the seas
To feed the North from tropic trees;
The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,
Where they were bid the rivers ran;
New slaves fulfilled the poet’s dream,
Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam.
Emerson.

DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY

BY
ROBERT ROUTLEDGE, B.Sc.,
SOMETIME ASSISTANT EXAMINER IN CHEMISTRY AND IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
THIRTEENTH EDITION
Revised and Partly Re-written, with Additions
CONTAINING FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
1900