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| Author: | Archibald Williams |
| Category: | Business Information Technology [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 10 Apr 2009 |
| Pages: | 378 |
| File Size: | 8.88 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 19 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 384,456 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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The Author Book How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use and the author of 6 another books.
Williams, Archibald, 1871-1934
Author: Williams, Archibald, 1871-1934
Title: How it Works
Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use
Contents: The steam-engine -- The conversion of heat energy into mechanical motion -- The steam turbine -- The internal-combustion engine -- Electrical apparatus -- The electric telegraph -- Wireless telegraphy -- The telephone -- Dynamos and electric motors -- Railway brakes -- Railway signalling -- Optics -- The microscope, the telescope, and the magic-lantern -- Sound and musical instruments -- Wind instruments -- Talking machines -- Why the wind blows -- Hydraulic machinery -- Heating and lighting -- Various mechanisms.
Language: English
LoC Class: T: Technology
Subject: Technology -- Juvenile literature
Subject: Science -- Juvenile literature
Release Date: Apr 10, 2009
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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