Boys' Second Book of Inventions :: TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
The Miracle of Radium		3
	Story of the Marvels and Dangers of the New Element Discovered by Professor and Madame Curie.
CHAPTER II
Flying Machines		27
	Santos-Dumont's Steerable Balloons.
CHAPTER III
The Earthquake Measurer		79
	Professor John Milne's Seismograph.
CHAPTER IV
Electrical Furnaces		113
	How the Hottest Heat is Produced—Making Diamonds.
CHAPTER V
Harnessing the Sun		153
	The Solar Motor.
CHAPTER VI
The Inventor and the Food Problem		173
	Fixing of Nitrogen—Experiments of Professor Nobbe.
CHAPTER VII
Marconi and his Great Achievements		207
	New Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy.
CHAPTER VIII
Sea-Builders		255
	The Story of Lighthouse Building—Stone-Tower Lighthouses, Iron Pile Lighthouses, and Steel Cylinder Lighthouses.
CHAPTER IX
The Newest Electric Light		293
	Peter Cooper Hewitt and his Three Great Inventions — The Mercury Arc Light—The New Electrical Converter—The Hewitt Interrupter.

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