The Romance of Modern Invention / Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c.

List of Illustrations

The Sun Motor Used on the Pasadena Ostrich-Farm	Frontispiece
A Corner of Mr. Marconi’s Cabin	10
Mr. Marconi’s Travelling Station	16
The Poldhu Tower	22
Guglielmo Marconi	26
High-Speed Telegraphy: a Receiving Instrument	28
High-Speed Telegraphy. Specimen of Punched Tape	34
A Unique Group of Phonographs	56
The Telautograph: Receiver and Transmitter	72
The Telautograph, Showing the Principal Parts	75
The Telautograph, Specimen of the Work Done	76
The Simms Armour-Clad Motor Car	114
The “Holland” Submarine Boat	144
An Interior View of the “Holland”	150
The “Holland” Submarine in the Last Stages of Submersion	160
The Great Paris Telescope	188
The Liquid Air Company’s Factory at Pimlico	214
M. Serpollet on the “Easter Egg”	224
A Motor Car Driven by Liquid Air	242
Diagram of Liquid Air Motor Car	246
H.M.S. Torpedo Destroyer “Viper”	278
Airship of M. Santos-Dumont Rounding the Eiffel Tower	288
M. Santos-Dumont’s Airship Returning to Longchamps	300
The Linotype Machine	308
The Monotype Casting Machine	312

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