A New Century of Inventions Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life

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A New Century of Inventions Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life

by James (Civil engineer) White

EN·~9 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total
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Please see Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

0:29
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A NEW CENTURY OF INVENTIONS, BEING Designs & Descriptions OF ONE HUNDRED MACHINES, RELATING TO ARTS, MANUFACTURES, & DOMESTIC LIFE.

0:40
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PREFACE.

11:36
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PART FIRST.

1:39:15
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SYNOPSIS, (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) OF THE CENTURY OF INVENTIONS COMPOSING THIS WORK.

6:25
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PART SECOND.

2:09:47
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PART THIRD.

1:49:03
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PART FOURTH.

1:47:19
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PART FIFTH.

1:13:58
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ERRATA.

1:36

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A New Century of Inventions Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life

Language

en

Duration

~9 hours (546K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2013-06-15

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

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James (Civil engineer) White

James (Civil engineer) White

Drawn to mechanics from childhood, this English civil engineer and inventor spent a lifetime dreaming up practical machines for industry and everyday life. His 1822 book gathers more than a hundred designs, including an early concept for a key-driven mechanical calculator.

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