Présentation de l'éditeur
The purpose of this book is to tell the story of some few of the great epoch-making inventions, to trace their influence upon world progress and to describe, so far as possible, simple experiments, embodying the principles involved, for home laboratory work. Many very important inventions and discoveries have had to be omitted. The field to be covered is so broad and the limits of a single book so narrow that the selection of subject-matter has been of necessity largely a process of judicious elimination. But in a book of this sort it is not so important what particular subjects are discussed as it is to teach certain fundamental truths and to emphasize the tremendous influence upon human affairs of the so-called dreamer, the man of vision, who in spite of every obstacle of fate and man has blazed the path of progress for the race. We cannot point out too often that genius is very frequently but another name for imagination. The inventor and the poet are in spirit one. The poet creates a mental image and clothes it in words suggestive of the thought picture. The inventor conceives the idea of an instrument, fraught with great material possibihties, and embodies it in a suitable mechanism. Both the poem and the machine, as everything else in the universe, are mental creations. The most intricate piece of machinery existed in the mind of the inventor before it could be translated into visible and tangible form.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enha
Présentation de l'éditeur
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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