  | | PAGE | | I. | Introduction | 9 | | | | | II. | Archimedes | 20 | | | | | III. | Friar Bacon | 36 | | Of the Parents and Birth of Fryer Bacon, and how he addicted himself to Learning, 39. How Fryer Bacon made a Brazen Head to speak, by the which he would have walled England about with Brass, 41. How Fryer Bacon by his Art took a Town, when the King had lain before it three Months, without doing it any Hurt, 45. How Fryer Bacon burnt his Books of Magic and gave himself to the Study of Divinity only; and how he turned Anchorite, 49. How Virgilius was set to School, 53. Howe the Emperor asked Counsel of Virgilius, how the Night Runners and Ill Doers might be rid-out of the Streets, 55. How Virgilius made a Lamp that at all Times burned, 56. | | | | | | IV. | Benvenuto Cellini | 58 | | Life of Benvenuto Cellini, 59. Benvenuto's Autobiography, 60. | | | | | | V. | Bernard Palissy | 82 | | Bernard Palissy the Potter, 83. | | | | | | VI. | Benjamin Franklin | 97 | | Franklin's Method of Growing Better, 100. Musical Glasses, 112. | | | | | | VII. | Theorists of the Eighteenth Century | 119 | | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, 119. Edgeworth's Telegraph, 124. Mr. Edgeworth's Telegraph in Ireland, 127. Mr. Edgeworth's Machine, 136. More of Mr. Edgeworth's Fancies, 140. Jack the Darter, 142. A One-wheeled Chaise, 144. | | | | | | VIII. | James Watt | 146 | | The Newcomen Engine, 150. James Watt and the Steam-engine, 153. The Separate Condenser, 161. Completing the Invention, 164. Watt makes his Model, 167. | | | | | | IX. | Robert Fulton | 172 | | | | | X. | George Stephenson and the Locomotive | 193 | | George Stephenson, 194. | | | | | | XI. | Eli Whitney | 219 | | Eli Whitney, 222. | | | | | | XII. | James Nasmyth | 237 | | The Steam-hammer, 237. James Nasmyth, 239. | | | | | | XIII. | Sir Henry Bessemer | 259 | | The Age of Steel, 259. Bessemer's Family, 261. Henry Bessemer, 264. Stamped Paper, 265. Gold Paint, 270. Bessemer Steel, STORIES OF INVENTION
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