Language
en
Duration
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by deaurider, Paul Marshall 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
2017-10-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1843–1926
Best known for a lively 1893 book on automata, this Victorian engineer wrote about mechanical wonders with the curiosity of both a historian and an inventor. His work opens a window onto the early world of electricity, telephones, lighting, and ingenious machines.
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