ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Gutenberg Takes the First Proof Frontispiece
Palissy the Potter After an Unsuccessful Experiment Facing page 46
Galileo’s Telescope 58
Watt First Tests the Power of Steam 72
Sir Richard Arkwright 88
The Inventor of the Cotton Gin 104
The Clermont, the First Steam Packet 120
The Davy Safety Lamp 136
One of the First Locomotives 156
Morse and the First Telegraph 180
The Earliest Reaper 194
Elias Howe’s Sewing-Machine 210
The First Telephone 222
Edison and the Early Phonograph 258
Wireless Station in New York City Showing the Antenna 268
The Wright Brothers’ Airship 281