| CHAPTER | PAGE | | I. | Invention in Primeval Times | 1 | | II. | Invention in the Orient | 24 | | III. | Invention in Greece | 51 | | IV. | Invention in Rome: Its Rise and Fall | 81 | | V. | Invention of the Gun and of Printing | 101 | | VI. | Columbus, Copernicus, Galileo and Others | 125 | | VII. | The Rise of Electricity, Steam and Chemistry | 148 | | VIII. | The Age of Steam, Napoleon and Nelson | 179 | | IX. | Inventions in Steam, Electricity, and Chemistry Create a Dangerous Era | 203 | | X. | Certain Important Creations of Invention, and Their Beneficent Influence | 231 | | XI. | Invention and Growth of Liberal Government and American Civil War | 255 | | XII. | Invention of the Modern Military Machine, Telephone, Phonograph and Preventive Medicine | 279 | | XIII. | The Conquest of the Ether—Moving Pictures—Rise of Japan and the United States | 301 | | XIV. | The Fruition of Invention | 322 | | XV. | The Machine of Civilization, and the Dangerous Ignorance Concerning it, Shown by Statesmen | 333 | | XVI. | The Future | 341 |
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