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Книга по требованию: Up the Heights of Fame and Fortune

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And the Routes Taken by the Climbers to Become Men of Mark (Classic Reprint)

Вес: 1.27 кг.
Год издания: 2015
Страниц: 814 Переплет: мягкая обложка
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Excerpt from Up the Heights of Fame and Fortune: And the Routes Taken by the Climbers to Become Men of Mark

The present volume is intended for popular reading. It has been prepared with direct reference to supplying a large circle of readers with a fund of practical information of an interesting nature, and of an instructive and elevating character. It has come to be true that information must be compactly given, if it is to be acceptable to any considerable number of people: it is believed that this volume furnishes, in an entertaining series of biographies in Part I, a chain of remarkable facts and events not heretofore grouped together, or otherwise accessible in any available form.

With the decease of Prof. S. F. B. Morse, in April of the present year, culminated the career of the last one of less than a dozen men whose inventions and improvements have changed the industrial, commercial, and social relations of the world. In this work the lives of some of these men are given in nearly chronological order.

A single unit only has been added to the column of centuries, beyond three years for grace, since Watt secured the first patent on his Condensing Engine; and not even a century has passed since Boulton and Watt became partners and began the manufacture of Steam-engines: now there are said to be engaged in the manufacturing and labor interests of Great Britain alone a hundred thousand of them, without mentioning Locomotives, or engines employed in navigation. Perhaps three times as many more Steam-engines are employed in other countries. The civilized world may fairly be said to tremble beneath the surging power and groaning thug of iron arms and sinews, propelled by steam.

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