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1Title:  Great facts: a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century    
 Creator:  Bakewell, Frederick Collier. 
 Publication:  D. Appleton and Company, New York,1860. 
 Call #:  T19 B168 
 Extent:  xii, 307 p. : incl. front., illus., diagrs. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions
 
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2Title:  Discoveries and inventions: a lecture    
 Creator:  Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 
 Howell, John.
 Publication:  J. Howell, San Francisco,1915. 
 Notes:  "This lecture is not included with any collection of Lincoln's addresses. It appeared in print for the first time in Sunset magazine, in 1909." (Prefatory note) Reproduced from the original ms. owned by Hon. Henry A. Melvin, of Oakland, Cal. The text of another different lecture on "Discoveries, inventions and improvements" is printed from a ms. owned by Charles F. Gunther, of Chicago, in Lincoln's Complete works, edited by Nicolay and Hay, 1894, v. 1, p. 522-528. "Of this book 250 copies were printed on Fabriano Italian hand-made paper, and 1000 copies on American drawing paper. The frontispiece is by Ray F. Coyle. Printed by the Blair-Murdock company, San Francisco, under the direction of John Henry Nash,in the month of October, 1915." In slide case. 
 Call #:  E457.95 1860 
 Extent:  [21] p. port. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions
 
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3Title:  A history of wonderful inventions    
 Publication:  Harper & brothers, New York,1849. 
 Call #:  B 6809 
 Extent:  2 v. in 1. fronts., illus. (incl.ports.) diagr. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions
 
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4Title:  Historic inventions    
 Creator:  Holland, Rupert Sargent, 1878-1952 
 Publication:  G. W. Jacobs & company, Philadelphia,[1911] 
 Call #:  B 8855 
 Extent:  295 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions
 
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5Title:  Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century: the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress    
 Creator:  Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 
 Publication:  A. J. Holman & Co, Philadelphia, Pa,[1899] 
 Call #:  D359.7 B789 
 Extent:  1 p. Á., xviii, [19]-720 p. front., illus., plates, ports. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Progress | Inventions
 
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6Title:  Inventive genius    
 Creator:  Time-Life Books 
 Publication:  Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Va,[c1991] 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-140) and index. 
 Call #:  T39 I62 
 Extent:  143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions | Inventors -- Biography
 
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7Title:  Great inventions    
 Creator:  Abbot, C. G. (Charles Greeley), b. 1872 
 Publication:  Smithsonian Institution Series, Inc.], New York,1932. 
 Notes:  "Primitive inventions have already been covered in volume 7 of this series. My purpose was rather to select and explain the operation in their simpler forms of a few inventions, conceived mainly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." - Pref. On cover: Patrons edition. Errata slip mounted on p. 228. 
 Call #:  Q11 S665 v.12 
 Extent:  8 p. leaves., 383 p. : col. front., illus. (incl. map) 123 pl. (incl. ports.) on 67 leaves., diagrs. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions | Technology
 
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8Title:  The life and inventions of Thomas Alva Edision    
 Creator:  Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie, 1860-1935 
 Dickson, Antonia
 Publication:  T. Y. Crowell, New York,[c1894] 
 Call #:  TK140 E2D6 
 Extent:  xvi, 362 p. : illus., ports. ; 27 cm. 
 Subjects:  Edison, Thomas A. -- (Thomas Alva), -- 1847-1931 | Inventions
 
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9Title:  Progress in America which I have seen - since the 1880's    
 Creator:  Gallaher, Edward Beach. 
 Publication:  Newcomen Society, American Branch, New York,1947. 
 Call #:  TA140 G162 
 Extent:  40 p. : illus. 
 Subjects:  Engineers -- Biography | Inventions
 
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10Title:  Stories of inventors: the adventures of inventors and engineers. True incidents and personal experiences    
 Creator:  Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949 
 Publication:  Doubleday, Page & co, New York,1904. 
 Call #:  B 5435 
 Extent:  221 p. illus. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions | Inventors
 
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11Title:  Consecrated ingenuity: the Shakers and their inventions    
 Creator:  Williams, John S. 
 Shaker Museum Foundation, Old Chatham, New York
 Publication:  Shaker Museum Foundation, Old Chatham, New York,1957. 
 Notes:  Cover title. Bibliography: p. [10] 
 Call #:  BX9789 I6W7 
 Extent:  [10] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Shakers | Inventions
 
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12Title:  Improved Shaker washing machine: designed particularly for hospitals, hotels, laundries, &c. manufactured and for sale by the United Society of Shakers, at Shaker Village, N.H. Also, a newly constructed mangle, operated by a screw    
 Creator:  Shakers 
 Publication:  Charles C. Pearson & Co, Concord, N.H,1876. 
 Notes:  Cover title. 
 Call #:  BX9785 W3I3 1876 
 Extent:  22, [1] p. diag. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions | Washing machines
 
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13Title:  Black inventors    
 Creator:  Aaseng, Nathan. 
 Publication:  Facts on File, New York,c1997. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  T39 A111 
 Extent:  xvi, 128 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  African American inventors -- Biography | Inventions | Technological innovations
 
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14Title:  The marvels of war inventions: descriptions of weapons of war and how they were invented    
 Creator:  Corbin, Thomas W. 
 Publication:  Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, London,1919. 
 Notes:  "The contents of this volume are drawn from Mr. T. W. Corbin's larger book 'The romance of war inventions.'"- Publisher's note. 
 Call #:  T20 C63 
 Extent:  2 p.l., 13-251, [1] p. : front., 7 plates. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inventions | Military art and science | Naval art and science
 
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15Title:  Fifty years of Popular mechanics, 1902-1952    
 Alt. Title:  Popular mechanics (Chicago, Ill. : 1902)    
 Creator:  Throm, Edward L. (Edward Louis), 1911- 
 Publication:  Simon and Schuster, New York,[1952] 
 Notes:  "An album of American progress containing the most fascinating articles, predictions, pictures, and inventions that have appeared since the first issue of Popular mechanics"--Title page. 
 Call #:  T1 .P833 1952 
 Extent:  308 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm 
 Subjects:  Popular mechanics (Chicago, Ill. : 1902) | Technology | Inventions
 
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16Title:  The register of arts: or, A compendious view of some of the most useful modern discoveries and inventions    
 Creator:  Fessenden, Thomas Green, 1771-1837 
 Publication:  Published by C. and A. Conrad, and Co, Conrad Lucas & Co, Somerville and Conrad, Bonsal Conrad & Co, No. 30 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Market Street, Baltimore, Petersburg, Norfolk,1808. 
 Call #:  T47 F415 
 Extent:  xi, 404 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Technology | Industrial arts | Inventions | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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17Title:  The book of marvels    
 Creator:  Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 
 Publication:  Funk & Wagnalls, New York,[c1931] 
 Call #:  Q162 W54 
 Extent:  128 p. : illus., ports., map. 
 Subjects:  Science | Inventions | Natural history | Explorers
 
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18Title:  The wonders of modern mechanism: a resume of progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science at the dawn of the twentieth century    
 Creator:  Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- 
 Publication:  J.B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia,1900. 
 Call #:  T19 .C663 1900 
 Extent:  434 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, diagrams, plates ; 20 cm 
 Subjects:  Inventions | Discoveries in science | Mechanical engineering | Machinery
 
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