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[title] Great Inventions 
electricity 
        moving bar magnet, by Oersted, 1819 
        magnetised iron bar, by Arago and Davy, 1820 
        generated from magnetism, by Faraday and Henry, 1831 
dynamos and motors 
        dynamo 
        [img] GreatInventions-Dynamo-85.jpg 
        alternating-current motor 
electrons and x-rays 
        solids and electric conduction 
        electron tube amplifier 
        x-rays 
        atomic structures 
telegraphy and telephony 
        electric signalling 
        telegraph 
        cable 
        [img] GreatInventions-Cable-148.jpg 
        telephone 
        [img] GreatInventions-Telephone-159.jpg 
radio transmission 
electric light 
[img] GreatInventions-ElectricLight-206.jpg 
prime movers 
        water power 
        [img] GreatInventions-WaterPower-223.jpg 
        heat power 
        steam engine 
        [img] GreatInventions-SteamEngine-247.jpg 
        internal combustion engine 
        [img] GreatInventions-InternalCombustionEngine-259.jpg 
mechanical transportation 
        steamboat 
        locomotive 
        [img] GreatInventions-Locomotive-281.jpg 
        railroad 
        automobile 
household and farm inventions 
        mechanical refrigeration 
                commercial 
                        refrigerating plants 
                        refrigerator railroad cars 
                domestic 
                [img] GreatInventions-DomesticRefrigeration-368.jpg 
        sewing machine 
                with hooked needle, by Thimonnier, 1829 
                with two threads and single-pointed shuttle 
                        by Hunt, 1834 
                        with eye-pointed needle, by Howe, 1845 
                        [img] GreatInventions-HoweSewingMachine-377.jpg 
                        with wheel feed and presser foot, by Singer, 1851 
                with double-pointed shuttle, by Wilson, 1849 
                with rotary hook 
                        by Wilson, 1851 
                        [img] GreatInventions-WilsonSewingMachine-378.jpg 
                        4-motion feed, by Wilson, 1854 
                single chain-stitch, by Gibbs, 1857 
                double-locked chain-stitch, by Grover, 1851 
        spinning and weaving 
                primitive looms 
                [img] GreatInventions-PrimitiveLooms-395.jpg 
                spinning 
                [img] GreatInventions-Spinning-396.jpg 
                automatic weaving 
                jacquard machine 
                [img] GreatInventions-JacquardMachine-395.jpg 
                power-driven loom 
        inventions concerned with agriculture 
                plows 
                harrows 
                manure spreaders 
                corn planters 
                grain seeders 
                cultivators 
                mowers 
                horse rakes 
                tedders 
                hay loaders 
                fruit pickers 
                milkers 
                cream separators 
                cotton gin, by Whitney and Miller 
                reaper 
                        by Hussey, 1833 
                        by McCormick, 1834 
                        [img] GreatInventions-McCormickReaper-434.jpg 
                        Marsh harvester, by Marsh, 1858 
                        self-binding harvester, by Appleby, 1876 
                power-driven 
                        transport 
                                automobiles 
                                trucks 
                                wheeled tractor 
                                [img] GreatInventions-Power-Driven-436.jpg 
                                caterpillar tractor 
                        small tools 
                                gardening 
                                cultivating 
                                dairying 
                                water hoisting 
outstanding manufactured products 
        paper 
                process 
                        by the Chinese, 200 BC 
                        handmade, by the Spanish Moors, 1150 
                        machined, by Robert, 1798 
                        [img] GreatInventions-MachinedPaper-450.jpg 
                uses 
                        information 
                                letters 
                                records 
                                advertisements 
                                newspapers 
                                books 
                                periodicals 
                        packaging 
                        entertainment 
                                plates 
                                napkins 
                                toys 
                                artificial flowers 
        rubber 
                process 
                        India rubber, by the South American Indians 
                        [img] GreatInventions-IndiaRubber-457.jpg 
                        rubber sheeting, by Mackintosh, 1820 
                        vulcanised rubber 
                                with sulphuric acid, by Goodyear, 1839 
                                with sulphur monochloride, by Parker, 1846 
                                with sulphur dioxide gas, by Peachy 
                        reclaimed rubber, by Marks, 1889 
                forms 
                        sheeting 
                                smooth 
                                calendered 
                                meshed 
                                adhered 
                        die-extruded 
                        moulded 
                uses 
                        protection from weather 
                                boots 
                                blanket 
                                hat 
                                floor covering 
                                roof covering 
                        injury 
                                stretcher 
                                water-bed 
                                bandages 
                                crutch pads 
                                surgical items 
                                prosthetic parts 
                        springs 
                        air seal 
                                gaskets 
                                jar seals 
                        pocket-comb 
                        cup 
                        thimble 
                        clothes-wringer 
                        entertainment         
                                billiard cushions 
                                golf balls 
                                tennis balls 
                                tennis shoes 
                                baseballs 
                                footballs 
                                pipe 
                        scientific instruments 
                                chemists’ tubes 
                                chemists’ trays 
                                balloons 
                                wire insulation 
                                electrical insulation 
                                hose 
                        tires 
        glass 
                process 
                        artistic 
                                by the Egyptians, 1400 BC 
                                by the Romans 
                                by the Venetians, 1200–1800 
                                with potash, by the Saxons and Bohemians, 1500 
                                with lead oxide, by the English, 1600 
                        optical glass, by Bausch & Lomb, 1914 
                forms 
                        sheet glass 
                                transparent 
                        hollow ware 
                                plain 
                                decorative 
                        bulb 
                        [img] GreatInventions-GlassBulb-483.jpg 
                        pressed and molded glass 
                        chemical glass 
                        optical glass 
                uses 
                        architecture 
                                windows 
                                walls 
                        bulbs 
                        optical instruments 
                                lenses 
                                prisms 
                                mirrors 
                        warfare 
                                range finders 
                                telescopes 
                                field glasses 
                        scientific instruments 
                        bottles 
                        glass insulators for wire 
        steel 
                process 
                        wrought iron, ancient 
                        pig iron 
                                Bessemer process with cold air 
                                [img] GreatInventions-BessemerProcess-489.jpg 
                                        by Kelly, 1857 
                                        by Bessemer, 1865 
                                        by Thomas ad Gilchrist, 1880 
                                open-hearth process, by Siemens 
                        electric steel-melting 
                uses 
                        machines 
                        tools 
                        warfare 
                                weapons 
                        transport 
                                trains 
                                tracks 
                        architecture 
graphic arts 
        wood and steel engraving 
                woodcut 
                        draughtsman 
                        engraver 
                copper engraving 
                steel engraving 
                lithography 
                        limestone 
                        aluminium 
                        zinc 
        photography 
                natural blackening of silver salts in light, by the ancient Egyptians 
                bitumen of Judea varnished on glass plate, by Niepce, early 1800s 
                photographic paper 
                [img] GreatInventions-PhotographicPaper-522.jpg 
                        with silver chloride, by Talbot, 1839 
                        calotype with iodide, by Talbot, 1841 
                daguerrotype on silver-plated copper with iodine vapour, by Daguerre, 1839 
                wet plate photography 
                        by Niepce, 1848 
                        by Talbot, 1851 
                dry plate photography 
                        by Bolton and Sayce, 1864 
                        by Eastman, 1879 
                transparent photographic film 
                        paper-backed film, by Eastman, 1884 
                        film rolls, by Reichenbach and Eastman, 1889 
                moving picture film, by Edison, 1900 
        photoengraving 
                gelatin-albumen-bichomate film on metal plate, by Mungo Ponton, 1860 
                half-tone photoengraving for colour printing, by Ives, 1881 
        photolithography, by Osborne, 1859 
        photogravure, by Klietsch, 1878 
        Woodburytype, 1864 
        photogelatin collotype 
                by Poetevin, 1855 
                by Motay and Marechal, 1865 
                by Edwards, 1872 
        Ben Day screen, 1879