Great Facts: A Popular History and Description of the Most Remarkable Inventions During the 19th Century

PREFACE.

The conveniences, the comforts, and luxuries conferred on society by the many important Inventions of the 19th century, must naturally excite a desire to know the origin and progress of the application of scientific principles, by which such advantages have been gained.
Practically considered, those Inventions are of much greater value than the discoveries of Science on which most of them depend; and the scientific inquirer who confines his views to abstract principles, without looki...