Excerpt from The Story of Great Inventions
Marconi Wireless-Telegraph Station, Clifden, Ireland; The Same Station Photographed By Daylight; The Battle Of Syracuse; - Galileo"s Pendulum Clock; An Air Thermometer; Torricelli"s Experiment; Guericke"s Air-Pump; - Guericke"s Water Barometer; - A lift-pump; A Simple Hydraulic Press; How An Hydraulic Press Works; An Hydraulic Press With Belt-Driven Pump; - Newton"s Experiment With The Prism; - Papin"s Engine; The Newcomen Engine, In Repairing Which Watt Was Led To His Great Discoveries; Cylinder Of Watt"s Steam-Engine; A Fly-Ball Governor; A Leyden Jar; - Franklin"s Kite Experiment; Volta Explaining His Electric Battery To Napoleon Bonaparte; - The First Electric Battery; Count Rumford"s Experiment With The Cannon, Making Water Boil Without Fire; Oersted"s Experiment; A Coil With A Current Flowing Through It Acts Like A Magnet; A Bar Of Soft Iron With A Current Flowing Around It Becomes A Magnet; Two Coils With Currents Flowing In The Same Direction Attract Each Other; Two Coils With Currents Flowing In Opposite Directions Repel Each Other; Arago"s Experiment
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