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THE author describes scientific discovery and invention from the point of view of a man familiar with the American patent office. Henry, and not Sturgeon, is therefore the inventor of the horse-shoe electro-magnet; Morse, and not Cooke, is the inventor of the telegraph. He has the patent office official's knowledge of science. He bursts into rhapsody only at the beginning and ending of chapters. He gives in each chapter bits of the history of an industry, not very satisfying because very incomplete. But each chapter is readable, being somewhat like an article in an illustrated magazine intended for general readers.
Progress of invention in the Nineteenth Century.
By Edward W. Byrn Pp. vii + 476. (New York: Munn and Co., 1900.)
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Progress of invention in the Nineteenth Century . Nature 64, 125 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064125d0
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