THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

SERIES
ED

EDITOR:

JUSTIN MCCARTHY.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

REV. W. H. WITHROW, M.A., D.D., F.R.S.C.
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS, M.A., F.R.C.I.

J. CASTELL HOPKINS, F.R.S.L.

T. G. MARQUIS, B.A.

REV. T. S. LINSCOTT, F.R.C.I.

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IN THE CENTURY

BY

WILLIAM H. DOOLITTLE
DOOLITTLE

Expert and Patent Solicitor, Ex-Examiner in the Patent Office and Assistant
Commissioner of Patents at Washington, Writer of Inventions, Etc.

THE LINSCOTT PUBLISHING COMPANY
TORONTO AND PHILADELPHIA

W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED
LONDON AND EDINBURGH

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Two, by the Bradley-Garretson Co., Limited, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Entered, according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Two, by the Bradley-Garretson Co., Limited, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

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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