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"Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 time went on 8 invention was not 7 work was not 6 _ is _ 6 inventors were not 6 time goes on 5 _ did _ 5 invention does not 5 inventor is not 5 machine was not 5 men had not 4 _ are _ 4 _ was not 4 air is so 4 invention has not 4 invention is not 4 invention was complete 4 man has ever 4 men are now 4 men did not 4 men were now 4 work is not 3 _ am _ 3 _ was _ 3 _ was again 3 current is first 3 current was not 3 engine was still 3 hand is worth 3 invention are infinite 3 invention worked perfectly 3 inventors are now 3 iron was formerly 3 iron were imperfectly 3 light is not 3 machine is not 3 machine is now 3 machine was first 3 machine was never 3 man did not 3 man is not 3 man was not 3 steam is not 3 water does not 3 work went on 2 _ did not 2 _ does not 2 _ had _ 2 _ have _ 2 _ see _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 invention is not so 2 men had not yet 2 work was not only 1 _ are not so 1 _ did not even 1 _ have no discretion 1 _ was not at 1 _ was not originally 1 _ was not well 1 air was not pure 1 current is no use 1 current is not as 1 current was not more 1 day are not very 1 day had no better 1 day is not far 1 day was not there 1 end is not yet 1 ends were not quite 1 engine had no springs 1 engine has not really 1 engine is no longer 1 engine is not really 1 engine was no longer 1 engine was not original 1 engine were not new 1 engines were not safe 1 gun was no better 1 hands are not clean 1 hands is not certain 1 invention had no special 1 invention has no bars 1 invention has not only 1 invention has not yet 1 invention is no easy 1 invention is not really 1 invention takes no consideration 1 invention was not equal 1 invention was not goodyear 1 inventions were not only 1 inventor found no provision 1 inventor has no special 1 inventor has not even 1 inventor is not even 1 inventor is not important 1 inventor is not precisely 1 inventor was not satisfied 1 inventors are no more 1 inventors is not important 1 inventors were not always A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 46644 author = Anonymous title = Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date = keywords = BOOKS; Dr.; Edition; England; Europe; Herschel; John; London; Lord; Mr.; NIMMO; Professor; Scotland; Sir; Society; author; great; iii; illustration; life; time; work; year summary = his eloquent work, _The Last Days of a Philosopher_, that Sir Humphry working power of the locomotive, and given us 60 miles an hour where we her attempts unavailing, she said to him, "Sir, you are a great man, and wonderful truth with which this little work paints the power of nature and the completion of so great and useful a work would have afforded the appearance of a great black ball in the heavens, with rays of light Another experiment took place on the 110th anniversary of the great fire Twenty thousand men worked upon it day and night; and it is stated that 11-1/2 feet of its surface.--_Year-Book of Facts_, 1843. great work was undertaken in the year 1586, and the day for raising the only about seventeen years of age when he completed this curious work, A Book for Fragments of Time on each Lord''s Day id = 4635 author = Appleton, Victor title = Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam date = keywords = Andy; Damon; Falcon; Foger; Koku; Mr.; Ned; Swift; Tom; Whitford summary = Smugglers using airships!" cried Tom. Tom Swift, Ned Newton and Koku, the giant, are busy trying to piece "Have you got all the pieces, Tom?" asked Ned, as he passed his chum Tom and Ned spent the rest of the day working over the motor, which not seen Tom coming, being so interested in looking at the airship, Tom and Ned gave the noiseless airship a test the next day. Then he saw Tom and Ned in the airship, which came gently to earth a The custom men, with Tom and Ned, went all over the house. "How did they come to use airships?" asked Tom. "Are you going, Tom?" asked Ned. Tom and Ned spent the day in going over the airship, making some Tom and the custom officer went in to look at the man, just as Ned "Yes, I think Ned is in one of them," said Tom. id = 21281 author = Baker, Henry E. (Henry Edwin) title = The Colored Inventor: A Record of Fifty Years date = keywords = Matzeliger; Mr.; Office; invention; patent summary = line of inventions also the colored race has made surprising and a list of nearly 400 patents representing the inventions of colored patent had ever been granted to a colored man." Of course this statement That this conclusion with reference to the colored man''s inventive In the world of invention the colored man has pursued the same line of other men, the colored man sought first to invent the thing that was gathered as representing patents granted to colored inventors, but so These 800 patents tell a wonderful story of the progress of the race in the inventors of our race we find that they have applied their inventive then that they were the invention of a colored man. of the Patent Office, and whose achievements in that line stand recorded twenty colored women have been granted patents for their inventions, and inventions and the dates and numbers of their patents, together with id = 44188 author = Baker, Ray Stannard title = Boys'' Second Book of Inventions date = keywords = Curie; Dumont; England; Hewitt; Japan; John; Lighthouse; Marconi; Milne; Mr.; Newfoundland; Professor; Santos; air; illustration summary = The practical mind at once sees radium in use as a new source of heat showing his men how to put up the great fan-like rudder of the ship next year, 1899, he built a new air-ship called Santos-Dumont II., and possibility of balloons, of motors, of light construction, of air [Illustration: The Work of the Great Earthquake of 1891 in Neo Valley, rush off to see Professor Milne every time there is news of a great conveyed as electricity over a copper wire, changed into heat and light by the electrical furnace, with its power of producing heat of untold method employed for coming at the heat of the electrical furnace, to the heavy work of men, producing the power which will help to turn And the time is coming--long-headed inventors saw it many years [Illustration: Machine for Burning the Air with Electric Arcs so as to Light--The New Electrical Converter--The Hewitt Interrupter_ id = 59679 author = Bartholomew, Stephen title = The Rumble and the Roar date = keywords = Joseph; Partch summary = When Joseph got to the office his ears were aching from the noise of Bob smiled and set the grey steel chassis on Partch''s desk, sat down in He liked Bob, but he had work to do. Yes, he decided, he was going to have to have a long talk with Dr. Coles that afternoon. Of what, after all, did Joseph Partch''s life consist? on the copter''s speakers loud enough to be heard over the engine noise Joseph Partch''s world was made up of sounds and noises, he decided. Partch got out of his chair and stared out the window again. And then he turned, and his eyes fell on Bob Wills'' machine. reduce the noise level of a rocket motor by 25 per cent, Wills had And the machine worked on ordinary house current, Bob had said. But what would Dr. Coles say about this, Partch wondered. And Joseph Partch was all alone, id = 59652 author = Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. title = Cronus of the D. F. C. date = keywords = Captain; Cronus; Stella summary = "Captain Marks is waiting for you," he said and jerked his head toward "Walker calls it Cronus--for the Greek God of Time. glances around the city on what looks like a large TV screen--random "Walker," the Old Man said, "this is Forsdon, our new detective." by Cronus was a shadow world and the only way you could tell male from "Plenty of time," the Captain said. "It''s an apartment or a hotel room," I said. I wanted an apartment living room with a corner location and a door "Stella Emerson," the superintendent said. "I''d like to know everything you can tell me about this Mike Gregory," of the door I said, "Stella, I like you." "One thing is interesting," the Captain said. "We''re going to change it this time," I said. "All right, Gregory," I said. "I''ll tell him," the Captain said. "Cronus changed mine," I said, still looking at Stella. id = 45269 author = Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell) title = Inventions of the Great War date = keywords = Allies; French; Germans; Underwood; Zeppelin; american; british; courtesy; fire; gas; gun; illustration; machine; scientific; shell; submarine summary = their principal use was to carry shell to the guns which were located If the long-range German gun was fired at that earth, the shell of long-range guns meet with less and less resistance The big 16-inch guns that protect our coasts fire a shell that weighs the German long-range gun was of but 8.2-inch caliber. It is likely that the long-range German gun was But although we built no such gun, after the Germans began shelling ago the British built three battle-ships, each fitted with two guns days, these gas shell were usually not fired by the Germans on lines The scouting-airplane carried a machine-gun, not for attack, but for U-boats, and even heavy guns with which they could fire shell. And so the machine-guns carried by airplanes were provided for a Zeppelin to use machine-guns against an airplane because the pursuing U-boat would stand off out of range of the ship''s guns and id = 37609 author = Burns, Elmer Ellsworth title = The Story of Great Inventions date = keywords = Edison; England; FIG; Faraday; France; Germany; States; United; battery; current; electric; illustration summary = Starting and stopping the battery current in the primary coil causes a whirling of the disk in the magnetic field caused an electric current. A coil of wire with an electric current flowing through producing an electric current was the "voltaic battery," so called in For the purpose of lighting and power the electric battery proved too experiments a current was induced in a coil of wire by moving a magnet The dynamo furnishes current for the electric lights in the car. armature is turned by a steam-engine or some other power, a current is An arc light is produced by an electric current flowing across a gap electric current to furnish a large number of small lights. An electric current travels over the telephone wire. flowing over the line-wire, and the changes in the electric current Motion of magnet produced by an electric current--M. id = 45139 author = Clark, Samuel Evans title = Learn to Invent, First Steps for Beginners Young and Old Practical Instuction, Valuable Suggestions to Learn to Invent date = keywords = end; good; idea; like; patent; time; work summary = and unlimited field for study, that people may learn to invent. inventor, take up his invention and study the original lines of his like a great cloud of fringe on the science of invention, I think it Many times a good idea is poorly carried out, invention he would get a patent; if another man made an improvement oiled paper end might be worked on under the wrapper to help the matter. Next to the simple or single idea patents: I think the improvements As a matter of fact, you can''t patent an idea. Many people will say to those who invent, "How did you come to think of your mind engrossed with an idea of an invention or an improvement on I advise all who have any idea of inventing to practice drawing. ideas are good things. come under the head of copyright are, I think, a good field to work id = 32229 author = Clarke, Jay title = High Man date = keywords = Anne; Professor summary = DRAW ON MY ACCOUNT AT BANK STOP ANNE his continued researches, he came to New York, which, as you know, is here to work on an anti-gravity belt, his lifelong project. You may wonder, reasonably enough, what Professor Burdinghaugh has to do "My boy," he said to me later, as he strapped a bulky belt around my anti-gravity belt?" he confided. The sound of Professor Burdinghaugh''s voice brought an abrupt end to "Professor," I asked hesitantly, "how do I turn off the belt?" just before I entered a cloud, I saw the Professor standing far below, Professor had said the belt was powered by batteries. say, I immediately tried to locate Professor Burdinghaugh, but have been An anti-gravity belt! Besides, I happen to have met your Professor Phelps-Smythe Burdinghaugh anti-gravity belt and seemed rather amused at the idea. the way you maligned the Professor, trying to make me think _he_ was fact--the anti-gravity belt. id = 34459 author = Corbin, Thomas W. title = The Romance of War Inventions A Description of Warships, Guns, Tanks, Rifles, Bombs, and Other Instruments and Munitions of Warfare, How They Were Invented & How They Are Employed date = keywords = 8vo; B.A.; Crown; HEROES; Illustrations; M.A.; MODERN; Mr.; ROMANCE; Rev.; Story; day; great; gun; little; ship; water; wonder summary = carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) and a little vaseline added, form a soft range and vigorous hitting power a gun needs to be as long as possible. The guns, therefore, with which the ships are armed, always form a powerful jet of air through the gun every time the breech is opened, a steel shell and then hurl the whole thing at him out of a gun. between the gun and the shell when firing takes place. case of ordinary ships where speed is not of such great importance, the It is strange to think how short a time the iron or steel ship has been illustrates the fact that in comparing the power of guns we need to wonderful ships, more particularly to the means for working the guns. through the water will not make some wave, but certain forms cause less use the orthodox term, is placed another little piece of iron called the id = 38045 author = Corbin, Thomas W. title = Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science date = keywords = Hertz; air; case; current; end; form; gas; gold; heat; illustration; light; little; man; place; time; turn; water; way; wire; work summary = connected to an electrical machine, which causes a current to pass down A current can do work; when it lights or heats your room or drives a suitable for measuring large currents and great pressures. produced by the current flowing in the wire tends to turn the needle, lighting or power purposes the currents are "alternating." They flow which heat produces electrical pressure and current. current begins to circulate round the silver strip which forms the coil, red rays, while a bluish light like the electric arc is naturally principle is the same, since the heat is formed by forcing current past coil is made of many turns of fine wire, so that little current passes volume of current be forced along iron wires of the same size, the heat Taking, then, the known magnetic effects of an electric current and the Electric current is made to pass through this wire on its id = 58730 author = Cox, Irving E. title = Miracle by Price date = keywords = Bertha; Kent; Walt summary = small enough was the little radio-like gadget Price had called a moment I saw the Semantic-Translator in the heart of the fragile, wire Miss Bertha Kent walked back the gravel trail from the dressing room. Bertha Kent wanted something better, an ideal she had held in her mind her tent, the man from the camp beside hers came to help. "Independence is one thing, Bertha; I like that in a woman. Bertha began to see Walt as he was: brilliant, Miserable and angry, Bertha Kent went into her tent, but not to sleep. liked--a frizzy-headed, coarse-voiced blonde, and a paunchy old man who Suddenly a light flashed in Bertha''s face. "We just heard what happened last night, Miss Kent," she said. at the same time the voice from the machine said, "So you''ve finally lost your man, Miss Kent. She saw Walt look up from his stove. id = 36776 author = Doolittle, William Henry title = Inventions in the Century date = keywords = America; CHAPTER; Dr.; England; Europe; France; Germany; Henry; John; London; Metallurgy; New; Paris; Philadelphia; Prof.; Sir; States; United; Washington; Watt; William; York; art; century; english; form; french; great; invention; machine; steam; time; water; work summary = improvements in steam-engines of the nineteenth century--great as they inventors until the next century, and until after the great inventions At the age of 22 he invented a machine for making card teeth, power, invented a steam engine having a piston and a safety valve, and arts, such inventions, so far as great works are concerned, have inventors now had two forms of electrical machines to produce light: the Brown of England was the first in this century to invent and use a gas metal-working tools and machines forming the subject of this chapter are The century''s improvements and inventions in machines for treating and In the great class of Industrial Mechanics, no machines of the century ironing days, the invention of these machines and appliances must be These machines were developed and in use just as the new century Machines have been invented which consist of hard iron or steel rollers id = 11368 author = Doubleday, Russell title = Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers date = keywords = Dumont; Marconi; New; Santos; air; great; illustration; long; machine; man; motor; ship; time; water; work summary = time the vibration of the long-distance message through the air; the new Marconi stations, therefore, built for long-distance work, are flight, Santos-Dumont launched his second air-ship the following May. Number 2 was slightly larger than the first, and the fault that was amazed people on the tower saw the air-ship turn right and left as her The new machine worked well, though at one time the aerial navigator''s a long run, without stops, and the engine took water from a track-tank little steam plants are when a ten-horse-power engine, boiler, engine, however, working by the force of exploded gas, produces power into steam, so the water has to do its work many times. steam-motors that work on the same principle as the engine built by Submarine torpedo-boats are actual, practical working vessels to-day, special lines are built to carry long-distance messages from one great id = 21375 author = Fenn, George Manville title = The Weathercock: Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias date = keywords = Aunt; Bruff; CHAPTER; Deering; Distin; Eliza; Gilmore; Hannah; Lee; Macey; Martha; Mrs; Syme; Vane; cry; doctor; good; look; nay summary = "Oh, Vane, my dear boy, don''t!" cried Mrs Lee, as the lad rushed down "You married a doctor, my dear," said Vane''s uncle quietly; "and you saw "What!" cried Macey; and Distin and Vane both looked wonderingly at "Look here, sir," cried Distin, across the table to Vane, who sat, as Look there, Vane," cried Macey, pointing to a newly-painted boat following suit, and Macey gave Vane a look, which plainly said, "Told "What are those leaves shaped like spears?" said Macey, giving Vane a "You only just got to us in time," said Vane, with a sigh; and he looked "Hush, Vane, my dear," said Aunt Hannah, as the cook turned upon him "Vane, my boy, you are like my old friend Deering," said the doctor one "Of course; that''s the right way," said the doctor; and Aunt Hannah gave "I don''t know that, Vane," said the doctor, laying his hand upon the id = 43965 author = Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) title = Invention: The Master-key to Progress date = keywords = Age; Alexander; Britain; Civilization; Cæsar; Egypt; England; Europe; France; Germany; Great; Greece; Greeks; India; Italy; Napoleon; Philip; Rome; States; United; War; invention; machine; roman summary = time, despite the known facts as to what inventions and inventors kind of work that is so wholly a "one man job" as inventing. inventional work, seems to spring naturally from the original fact that Now the legion was just as truly an invented machine as a steam engine and noted the influence of those inventions in causing civilization, suggest that invention has been the only kind of work that men have possible the invention of those electric and electro-magnetic machines the new science, Faraday invented the first electro-magnetic machines. in coming into use, or long in causing the invention of improvements on like others of mechanical machines, was not a practical invention of the existing Machine of Civilization are the permanent inventions this invention was, we can imagine the Machine to exist without it, of the important influence of invention that it was possible for Great id = 41219 author = Forman, S. E. (Samuel Eagle) title = Stories of Useful Inventions date = keywords = Egypt; England; Europe; FIG; Greeks; Rome; ancient; century; egyptian; great; illustration; invention; plow; roman; steam; time summary = Match, the Stove, the Lamp, the Forge, the Steam-Engine, the Plow, the these inventions we at the same time trace the course of human progress. The steam-engine was invented two thousand years ago (p. the world then had no work for steam to do, so the invention attracted inventor, showed the world a new way of lighting a house. If primitive man were slow to learn the use of iron it was not because his invention and the steam-engine passed almost completely out of men''s opening of the eighteenth century the steam-engine had been put to work Saxon print we see (Fig. 7) a plow which was used in the time of William In the loom worked by the Pueblo woman (Fig. 5) a new piece appears. French army officer, invented a steam-carriage of three wheels (Fig. 2) thirty years ago the _electric car_ (Fig. 5) was invented. id = 36768 author = Fyfe, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton) title = Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science date = keywords = Arkwright; Bell; Crompton; Davy; England; France; Fulton; George; Hill; India; James; John; London; Mr.; Paris; Robert; Stephenson; Tale; Watt; art; day; great; invention; man; old; steam; time; work; year summary = in its working, to the first-class printing machine of our own day, the fruit of long years of patient thought and work, the other the Watt''s invention of the steam engine, the other the great popular revolt war, will find that Watt''s steam machine worked the greatest revolution improvements in the steam engine; but his great invention forms the thoughts, and nearly all his time, were given up to the great work he upon the mule was £300,000 a-year, or more than £1000 a working day. got his locomotive built and set to work, brought his ballast engine whether the new line should be worked by steam or horse power. time, the rock on which he had to work was at a greater distance from thirty men, I have spent many a weary day and night, at those times invention of the steam-engine, and the improvement of manufacturing id = 40276 author = Hale, Edward Everett title = Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends date = keywords = Archimedes; Bacon; Bessemer; Colonel; Dr.; Edgeworth; England; France; Franklin; Fritz; Fryer; Fulton; Henry; John; London; Mr.; New; Sir; Stephenson; Uncle; Virgilius; Watt; Whitney; engine; great; man; time; work summary = work of such young people now is different from what it was thirty years said that the New Englanders had a great deal of adventurous old Norse So soon as the old man came home, he called to his son for his books, of _England_ had a great part of _France_ which they held a long time, The invention of the steam-engine by Watt, and the applications of it to child invented the steam-engine, from observing the motion of the top of steam-engine to the point where Watt took hold of it. long and laborious years to work out the details of the engine. successive year''s experience proves more fully, the great advantages sufficient time to get the locomotives into good working order, the working models of steam-engines and other apparatus required for the persons came to see my active little steam-engine at work; and they were noiseless work of the great steam-engine there. id = 61128 author = Lafferty, R. A. title = Seven-Day Terror date = keywords = Clarence; Clarissa summary = "Is there anything you want to make disappear?" Clarence Willoughby Clarence went down to the Plugged Nickel, a pot house on the corner. Nokomis, the bar man in the Plugged Nickel, called Clarence aside. "Clarissa!" said Officer Comstock in a voice like thunder. "Do you know what happened to that fire plug?" asked officer C. "Clarence," said Officer Comstock. "I have an idea," said Clarissa, "that when you find the cat you will "Let''s see it disappear now," said the city engineer. "Let''s see it disappear now," said the police chief. "If all of you gentlemen will come into the Plugged Nickel," said its very doors that the fire plugs disappeared in floods of gushing "I know a way we can get rich," said Clarissa several days later to her "How," asked the mayor, "did you know they would come back in seven "Because it was a seven-day disappearer that Clarence made. id = 19533 author = Macomber, Hattie E. title = Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison date = keywords = Cooper; Fulton; Morse; Mr.; New; Whitney; York summary = So, little by little, people came to know that steam is a great, One man tried to run his boat in a queer way. At one time the state of New York gave him the right of all steam In two years a regular line of boats was running between the great When Eli was about twelve years old, his father took a journey from When Eli was thirteen years old his father married a second time. The little cotton-gin had done a great work. For twelve long years, Mr. Morse worked to get people to notice his Long after, Mr. Morse said that much of the success of the telegraph Remember the twelve long, weary, anxious years, during which Mr. Morse had worked and waited. But would the poor young men and women of New York who worked hard This was thought to be a great thing for so young a boy to do. id = 59323 author = Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney) title = Bleedback date = keywords = Baxter; Calvin; Durstine; Leo; Thorsen summary = Leo Baxter was a little guy about five-foot six, like me but with a with it, Lieutenant!" If Calvin _was_ his brother, Leo''s agitation was I said slowly and quietly, "Now I''ll tell you what I''ve been waiting little gadgets that you removed from your brother''s work-bench--against "Leo," I said, "I know you consider this case closed, but I want you to "No. No, you don''t understand," he said shaking his head like a air, just forehead high for a man tall as Calvin Baxter. This was my "murder-weapon", the cause of Calvin Baxter''s accident. "Right!" Jerry said, dropping his hands in resignation. "No, Lieutenant." Thorsen said, putting a hand to his eyes. "They don''t know what it is," he said looking down at the floor. "We''ve got to get the secret of that extractor out of Calvin Baxter," "No," he said, "we didn''t figure out Baxter''s extractor. id = 46232 author = Maule, Harry E. (Harry Edward) title = The Boy''s Book of New Inventions date = keywords = Blériot; Curtiss; Doctor; Edison; Farman; France; New; States; Tesla; United; Wright; York; aeroplane; american; boy; great; illustration; machine; picture; work summary = history of the world, of a power-driven, man-carrying aeroplane.] A new machine the next year showed little difference of design, but To start the early Wright biplanes, the machines were placed on a to the success of the aeroplane--light weight, high power, and These days the light powerful aeroplane engines control of flying machines, estimated the power necessary to carry a of the rear plane until the great forward wings did all the work with the Wright biplane racing machine, started out with high speed, Tesla''s great plant we must follow the scientist and his boy friend There are several motion-picture printing machines in use in this (showing the working of some great industry like steel making), The little engine looked like a small steel drum about ten inches in models at the power plant." Tesla turned on a small electric motor scientist and his boy friend just how the machine worked. id = 47258 author = Mowry, Arthur May title = American Inventions and Inventors date = keywords = America; Atlantic; Boston; CHAPTER; England; Europe; George; Indians; John; Massachusetts; Morse; Mr.; New; Pennsylvania; River; Smith; States; United; York; day; great; illustration; man; time; year summary = [Illustration: A NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.] the great vessel with freight for New England. short time every day, and sends us little heat. We have in our day the electric light; we can use illuminating gas; common use, and doubtless will remain so for a long time to come. the United States to-day, was entirely unknown two centuries ago. A few years ago the new territory of Oklahoma was opened to farmers, Thousands of years ago wild horses ranged in great numbers over the from Boston to New York on horseback nearly two hundred years ago. I read the other day how a new iron bridge took the place of an old [Illustration: ELECTRIC CAR, NEW YORK CITY.] general use between the great cities of the country. The next year the _Great Eastern_ again set sail, with a new cable Nearly twenty years ago, soon after the invention came into use, three id = 37574 author = Piercy, Willis Duff title = Great Inventions and Discoveries date = keywords = America; Boston; Columbus; England; Europe; Morse; New; States; United; Vail; Washington; Whitney; York; english; great; greek; illustration; invention; man; time summary = is carried through miles of space in a very short time to a great steel years ago there was not a mile of railroad, ocean cable, or telegraph during which iron was used is called the Iron Age. _Invention_ is the making of some new thing not previously existing. Bell, Marconi, and others who have invented new machines and discovered world''s news for the day by telegraph and ocean cable direct into the Honored by all the civilized world, he died in New York City electric lighting plant was being prepared in New York City, Edison inventions and discoveries that give him power over time and space. person, is one of the world''s great inventions. a little thing, but it is one of the world''s really great inventions. world''s great inventions and discoveries. recent years clocks operated with electricity have been invented. the great modern invention of the reaping machine, civilization is id = 45541 author = Prindle, Edwin J. (Edwin Jay) title = The Art of Inventing date = keywords = Fig; illustration; invention summary = inventors at work in a constant effort to improve the product, so that, methods involved the recording in hours and minutes the times of day time stamp thus be superimposed concentrically (as illustrated in Fig. 3), the value of the period would be represented by the arc marked off dial, having a pointer revolving in line with the zero, and the machine The final record has an initial imprint of the dial, Fig. 9a, the the motions either of the pointer or dial, any number of records of the motions, if the invention be a machine. with the art in which they are inventing, because their minds were In inventing a machine to operate upon any given material, the logical It is sometimes desirable not only to invent a good process of The inventor therefore, proceeded to invent ways by which In inventing compositions of matter there is one inventor who, if he id = 61504 author = Reeds, F. Anton title = Forever is Not So Long date = keywords = Darville; Ploving summary = The black hulk of Ploving Manor was broken by the squares of brilliant, Professor Ploving''s study long strings of bobbing, soft-glowing at the terrace edge watching the swirl of color on the lawn, his eyes Darville looked at the soft curve of her throat and the high-lighted The things that Professor Ploving and his young assistant did there in Steve Darville closed the workshop door behind him, muting the tom-tom "time-curve," had been utilized by Professor Ploving in creation of the of the tube was the tiny Ploving Button, a small incased mechanism no should be at the controls when the Ploving Tube met its first test. Steve Darville, gazing past Professor Ploving to the moonlit scene To open that door required a kind of courage Darville had never needed Steve Darville stumbled blindly to the door and up the steps. Professor Ploving''s eyes met his, read the frustration there. id = 46472 author = Robinson, Henry title = Inventors & Inventions date = keywords = INVENTOR; SUCCESSFUL; chapter; good; illustration; invention; machine; property summary = mechanical branches necessary for successful machine designing, but [Illustration: THE SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR In inventing and designing a new machine, one must first thoroughly objective points, the prospective successful inventor in designing This part of the inventive problem, to many an inventor, is in introducing a new machine on the market, and the inventor will two in the bush," is very applicable to inventions, and the inventor knowledge which is potent to successful invention in the mechanical [Illustration: ELIAS HOWE, INVENTOR OF THE SEWING MACHINE.] The inventing and designing of a machine to do work THE NECESSITY OF COMPETENT ENGINEERING FOR SUCCESSFUL INVENTION In designing and inventing a machine for doing certain work on reason the inventor of a labor-saving machine may often have to [Illustration: AN INTELLIGENT AND PRUDENT INVENTOR WILL CAREFULLY Second: Good and careful invention and designing by making the [Illustration: HAS NOT THE INGENUITY OF THE INVENTOR ENABLED EVEN id = 51740 author = Rubin, Leonard title = Don''t Look Now date = keywords = Barger; Brooks; Dr.; Gesner; Knox; Miss summary = "You''re not allowed in the ambulance," Miss Knox said. "Doctor!" said Brooks, and the internes and nurses gasped. "Boney!" said Miss Knox. "Come into the light, Boney--you frighten us," said Miss Erwin. "Not _another_ new suit," said Miss Knox. "Boney, she''s sorry," said Miss Erwin. "Everyone knows that," said Miss Knox. "But, Dr. Brooks, when you tell Boney things like that," said Miss "Only Barger Electronics really knows," said Dr. Brooks, "and the Dr. Brooks stood up, lifted Miss Knox gently beneath the arms and sat "Director himself--they can''t reach Gesner anyplace," Brooks said. "Barger was against it," said Dr. Brooks. "Let''s get out of here," said Miss Knox. "Boney is fine, Dr. Brooks," said Miss Erwin. "Go home, Hilda," said Miss Knox. "Poor Boney," said Miss Knox, adjusting Mr. Barger''s covers and her own Dr. Brooks said, "If any of the nurses or Dr. Gesner''s students don''t id = 6139 author = Severing, Paul title = Marvels of Modern Science date = keywords = America; Burbank; Mars; New; States; United; York; chapter; distance; electric; foot; great; gun; long; mile; place; power; time; tunnel; water; world summary = steam engines and electricity were common in Egypt thousands of years charge takes place and is carried up into the air for a great height, energy as would be developed by a million horse power station working compressed air, water force or electricity, and, as has been said, Two great tunnels at the present time are being constructed in the that thousands of horse-power can be sent to great distances over small electricity supplied by transmitted water-power. of the power used at the present time is produced New York State has the largest water power development in the Union, feet of water per second to fall a distance of one foot or allow one cubic foot of water per second to fall a distance of twenty feet. In a great many cases in level country the water power can only be in light-grasping power brings millions of new stars into the range id = 46512 author = Smith, Goodwin Brooke title = How to Succeed as an Inventor Showing the Wonderful Possibilities in the Field of Invention; the Dangers to Be Avoided; the Inventions Needed; How to Perfect and Develop New Ideas to the Money Making Stage date = keywords = CHAPTER; English; French; German; New; U.S.; illustration; invention; inventor; machine; patent; ~A~; ~E~; ~I~; ~R~; ~S~ summary = [Illustration: UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C.] Registered Attorney, United States Patent Office, and Officially The author of this book, after a number of years'' experience in Patent shows that enormous profits can be earned from good, strong patents. patent on an electrical invention for the prolongation of human life. famous inventors in telephones, are working on new styles of flying market for years, it took Gillette to bring out a better one, patent inventors not to spend any time and money on inventions such as First: Would it be possible to cover my idea or invention by a good, covering of an invention by strong letters patent first, as we A careful study of the histories of great inventors and inventions Patents and endeavoring to be a success as an inventor. who will bet that your invention is both patentable and practicable pertaining to Patents, Inventions, Discoveries and the like. id = 31243 author = Sutherland, George title = Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast date = keywords = 6_d; 8vo; B.Sc; CHEMISTRY; College; Crown; ELEMENTARY; F.R.S.; Hospital; Illustrations; JOHN; London; M.A.; M.D.; PRACTICAL; Plates; Professor; Royal; Science; Sir; University; diagram; power; woodcut summary = first actually useful work in the conveyance of goods by steam power account of one application of the power of steam to lift water which introduction of steam as a factor in man''s daily work was effected engineering business, having virtually finished his great life''s work new ideas and the adoption of improved methods of life and of work. generator of animal energy, fuel that of the power obtained from steam coasts, furnishes power to the water-wheel; while wind may be utilised capture of natural power and its application to useful work as the mechanical power is practicable and useful, for, of course, that point adapted to work with compressed air, and the true steam-engine itself power conveyed by the electric current; and then he performs the work other places where the increasing cheapness of power for working an that the interests of a great naval power demand the working out of a id = 32591 author = Swain, Dwight V. title = Henry Horn''s X-Ray Eye Glasses date = keywords = Coggleston; Henry; Joseph; Paulsen summary = HENRY HORN''S X-RAY EYE GLASSES [Sidenote: Henry Horn had a new invention; a pair of glasses that worked the savant''s old friend, Major Ray Coggleston of Army Intelligence. "Oh, yes, gentlemen, it certainly does work!" cried Henry Horn you want to, just like you were right inside that camp. ''inventive'' ways." Henry''s tall partner was fierce in his vehemence. "Oh, all right." The little man returned the binoculars to his partner, And, as Henry again raised the glasses in the direction of the nudist Dinner was a thing of the past, and Major Coggleston, Professor Paulsen "Yes. Red hair." The savant eyed Henry suspiciously. professor thrust his gaunt face to within an inch of Henry''s, his eyes "Joe, there''s no need to talk like that," Major Ray Coggleston began. "Joseph!" exclaimed Henry tensely, his goatee quivering to a point like Henry!" Major Coggleston interrupted excitedly. The four--Professor Paulsen, Major Coggleston "Henry!" exploded Professor Paulsen. id = 2900 author = Thompson, Holland title = The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest date = keywords = America; Boston; Edison; England; Franklin; Fulton; Henry; Howe; James; John; London; Morse; New; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; South; States; Stevens; United; War; Washington; Whitney; York summary = James Franklin printed the "New England Courant", the fourth newspaper John Stevens of New York and Hoboken had set up a machine shop that cotton was in use in the New World quite as early as in India. the year 1765, that Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was born. Like so many young New Englanders of the time, Whitney sought employment partners decided to manufacture the machines in New Haven, Whitney high-pressure steam engine and new machinery for manufacturing flour New England inventors had been busy devising improved machinery of all Joab Center of Hudson, New York, patented a machine for turning invention falls to Samuel Finley Breese Morse, a New Englander of old trained a large number of mechanics and inventors of new machine tools, He found time also to describe the new invention "What does Dr. Franklin conceive to be the use of this new invention?" id = 50998 author = Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.) title = Delay in Transit date = keywords = Bureau; Cassal; Dimanche; Earth; Foray; Galaxy; Murra; Tunney summary = "Not interested," said Cassal firmly, his subvocalization inaudible Dimanche needed a good stiff course in Cassal had none, except, in a sense, Dimanche. Cassal wasn''t sure he was going to like her. Cassal, I don''t know when another ship bound for Tunney will show up on instrument he called Dimanche was not known to the Galaxy at large. "I''ve got it," said Dimanche as Cassal gloomily counted out the sum the "What I want to know is," said Dimanche, "why such precautions as either Cassal or Dimanche. "Cards," said Cassal, "though there are many varieties within that "Look around," said Dimanche. "You had it last time," said Dimanche. "Pressure," muttered Cassal to Dimanche. "That''s better," said Cassal. "I''ve already visualized those probing instruments," said Cassal "You don''t," said Cassal. "You," said Cassal, "are a machine. "Look," said Cassal. The first time Cassal had visited the Travelers Aid Bureau, it had id = 60507 author = Zuroy, Michael title = The Super Opener date = keywords = Feetch; Opener; Piltdon summary = "But Mr. Piltdon," remonstrated Feetch unsteadily under his employer''s They began testing, Hanson operating the openers and Feetch "Feetch!" roared Piltdon. "Mr. Piltdon--" said Feetch shakily. "Feetch," bit out Piltdon, his face growing hard. Piltdon Opener went into Piltdon, genial these days with success and acclaim, roared at Feetch: "Thank you, Mr. Piltdon." And still, thought Feetch wryly, he received As soon as he could get hold of Piltdon, Feetch said trembling, "Sir, I the Piltdon Super-Opener. the Piltdon Super-Opener. precipitation and estimated that if all the cans opened by Piltdon "You''re through, Feetch!" raved Piltdon. "No!" yelled Piltdon at Feetch''s face which was "Feetch!" howled Piltdon. "Good-day," said Feetch firmly, sprinting through the falling cans to No, Feetch told himself, he was revealing nothing that Piltdon might I want fifty-one per cent of the stock of Piltdon Opener." "Mr Feetch--" said Piltdon. "Mr Feetch--" said Piltdon. id = 29241 author = nan title = Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery date = keywords = Faraday; London; Marconi; Mr.; New; Professor; Rocket; Röntgen; Stephenson; York; cable; current; electricity; experiment; fig; illustration; wire summary = A recent wonder of electric art is its penetration by a photographic ray bar moved in and out of a coil of wire excites electricity the wire which carried an electric current was an electrified body, and repeat the experiments with electric currents, which, up to that time, He began his experiments "on the induction of electric currents" by of magnetic force;" and he showed that to produce induced currents magnetizing sewing needles and pieces of steel wire, shown in Fig. 3. balance the electric charge of the cable wire (Fig. 60). increasing the carrying power of a telegraph wire in this way took mechanical way the battery current was thrown into waves, and electrical light, or a new form of electricity. For all that the electric current is not as yet produced as economically his new power, while the long-distance transmission of electrical energy theory that heat light, electricity, magnetism, chemical action, id = 38329 author = nan title = The Romance of Industry and Invention date = keywords = Africa; America; Atlantic; Australia; Bessemer; Cape; Company; Eastern; England; Europe; Great; Howe; India; John; Krupp; London; New; Post; Queen; Royal; Siemens; Sir; South; States; United; Wedgwood; Western; York; british; gold; illustration; work summary = and diamond mining industry; and the carrying-trade of the world. Atlantic Shipping Lines--The _Great Eastern_ and the New days, the development of the iron manufacture came to be regarded in 1861, and four years later erected sample steel works at Birmingham. Crewe in 1868, and the Great Western Railway works followed. present time, Krupp''s works within the town of Essen occupy more than ancient Roman and other workings, the gold-mines of Wales were long Vein-mining for gold differs but little from working any other kind of years this company turned out gold to the value of a million, and paid The great number of large stones found in the mines of South Africa, as revolver system; but modern machine guns are a great improvement on this vessels of great speed, armed with quick-firing guns, are likely to be Shipping Lines--The _Great Eastern_ and the New Cunarders