Front matter
Reading edition
Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this document.
STEAM AND ELECTRICITY. The 70,000 Horse-Power Station of the Metropolitan Street Railway, New York.
THE PROGRESS OF INVENTION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
BY EDWARD W. BYRN, A.M.
“Δός που στω, και την γην κινἡσω.” (Give me where to stand, and I’ll move the earth.)
—Archimedes.
MUNN & CO., Publishers SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OFFICE 361 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 1900
Copyrighted, 1900, by Munn & Co. —— Entered at Stationer’s Hall —— London, England —— ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Printed in the United States of America by The Manufacturers’ and Publishers’ Printing Company, New York City.