“THE history of the development of the inventive faculty”, said Mason in his “Origin of Inventions”, “is the history of humanity”; while the term invention, used in its plain logical sense, he added, ...

FOR his presidential address to the Newcomen Society delivered on October 16, Mr. C. F. Dendy Marshall took the subjeet of “The Germs and Development of Some Mechanical Inventions”. His address, he ...

An underwater ship -- A siphon for raising water -- Lifting weights by water, and a portable siphon -- Construction of sluices to raise ships to any height -- A machine worked by fire which can throw ...

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