Inventions in the century

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.

Inventions and Discoveries.--Distinctions and Contrast.--The One, Useful Contrivances of Man; the Other, New Things Found in Nature.--Galileo and the Telescope.--Newton and the Law of Gravitation.--Often United as Soul and Body.--Inventions and Discoveries do not Precede or Succeed in Order.--Inventions-- Alphabetical ...