SAMUEL F. B. MORSE.

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CONTENTS.

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 Pre-

cede or Succeed in Order.-Inventions-Alphabetical

Writing; Arabic Notation; The Mariner's Compass;

The Telescope; The Steam Engine.-Discoveries ;-At-

traction of Gravitation; Planetary Motions; Circula-

tion of Blood; Velocity of Light.-Nineteenth Century

Inventions and Discoveries.-Further Definitions.-Law

of Development.-Contrivances, not Creations.-Man

Always an Inventor.-Prof. Langley on Slow Growth

of Inventions.-Inventions of this Century Outgrowth

of Past Ones.-Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of

Modern Plough.-Hero of Alexandria and James Watt.-

David's Harp and the Grand Piano.-Electrical Science

in 1600 and the Present Day.-Evolution and Interrela-

tion of the Arts.-Age of Machine Inventions.-Its Be-

ginning. The Inducements to Invention.-Necessity

not Always the Mother.-Wants of Various Kinds.-Ac-

cident.-Governmental Protection the Greatest Incen-

tive.-Origin and Growth of Patent Laws. -Influence

of Personal, Political and Intellectual Freedom and Ed-

ucation.-Arts of Civilization Due to the Inventor.-

Macaulay's Estimate.-Will Inventions Continue to In-

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