Bradley A. Fiske

PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INVENTION, THE MASTER-KEY TO PROGRESS

CHAPTER I INVENTION IN PRIMEVAL TIMES

CHAPTER II INVENTION IN THE ORIENT

CHAPTER III INVENTION IN GREECE

CHAPTER IV INVENTION IN ROME: ITS RISE AND FALL

CHAPTER V THE INVENTION OF THE GUN AND OF PRINTING

CHAPTER VI COLUMBUS, COPERNICUS, GALILEO AND OTHERS

CHAPTER VII THE RISE OF ELECTRICITY, STEAM AND CHEMISTRY

CHAPTER VIII THE AGE OF STEAM, NAPOLEON AND NELSON

CHAPTER IX INVENTIONS IN STEAM, ELECTRICITY AND CHEMISTRY CREATE A NEW ERA

CHAPTER X CERTAIN IMPORTANT CREATIONS OF INVENTION, AND THEIR BENEFICENT INFLUENCE

CHAPTER XI INVENTION AND GROWTH OF LIBERAL GOVERNMENT, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER XII INVENTION OF THE MODERN MILITARY MACHINE, TELEPHONE, PHONOGRAPH, AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

CHAPTER XIII THE CONQUEST OF THE ETHER MOVING PICTURES RISE OF JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER XIV THE FRUITION OF INVENTION

CHAPTER XV THE MACHINE OF CIVILIZATION, AND THE DANGEROUS IGNORANCE CONCERNING IT, SHOWN BY STATESMEN

CHAPTER XVI THE FUTURE

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

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INVENTION, THE MASTER-KEY
TO PROGRESS

INVENTION

THE MASTER-KEY
TO PROGRESS

BY
REAR-ADMIRAL BRADLEY A. FISKE, LL.D.
UNITED STATES NAVY

Former Aid for Operations of the Fleet, President U. S. Naval Institute,
Gold Medallist of U. S. Naval Institute, the Franklin Institute
and the Aero Club of America.

Author of "Electricity in Theory and Practice," "War Time in Manila,"
"The Navy as a Fighting Machine," "From Midshipman to
Rear-Admiral," "The Art of Fighting," etc.

Inventor of the Gun Director System, the Naval Telescope Sight, the Stadimeter,
the Turret Range Finder, the Horizometer,
the Torpedoplane, etc., etc., etc.

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