The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century, published in 1900, is a survey by Edward W. Byrn, an examiner in the United States Patent Office, of the machines and processes that transformed daily life between 1800 and 1900. After a general view and a chronology of leading inventions, he devotes chapters to the telegraph, the Atlantic cable, the dynamo and electric motor, the telephone, electric light, the steam engine and railway, steamships, the bicycle and automobile, photography, the phonograph, the sewing machine, agricultural machinery, textiles, printing, firearms, rubber, aluminum, ice machines and liquid air, among others, with hundreds of illustrations drawn from patent records. Byrn writes for the general reader and with the confidence of a century that believed in progress. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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