Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era
A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
Compiled at the close of the century by James P. Boyd, this large volume surveys the progress of the nineteenth century through essays by specialists. Boyd himself writes on electricity, from the telegraph and telephone to the dynamo, electric light and X-rays, and on libraries and literature. Other contributors include Rear Admiral George W. Melville on naval progress, Selden J. Coffin on astronomy, Harvey W. Wiley on chemistry, Mary Elizabeth Lease on the progress of women and Morris Jastrow on the records of the past, with further chapters on medicine, railways, agriculture, art, music, law and war. Confident and celebratory, it records how Americans viewed their century as it ended. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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