Transcribers Note: An effort has been made to keep the project as authentic as possible.Two printers errors have been corrected: "toothach" has been changed to "toothache",and "recals" has been changed to "recalls". Hyphenated words have been standardizedas well.

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Invention and Discovery
 

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY:

Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches.

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WM. W. SWAYNE,
BROOKLYN AND NEW YORK.

 

MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

 

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CONTENTS.


 PAGE
Alchemists, The Last of the110
Alpine Perils—Professor Forbes on30
Amber an Article of International Trade66
Amsterdam Pile, The150
Antiquity of Lightning Conductors67
Antiquity of Refined Sugar87
Arkwright's Spinning Frame128
Art of Stereotype, The105
Artesian Well of Grenelle, The132
Ascent of the Jungfrau Alp, by Forbes, &c.44
Astronomical Shoemaker, An51
Babbage's Calculating Machine59
Balloon Travelling, Rate of103
Balloon Voyage from London to Nassau86
Banks', Sir Joseph, Balance37
Benefit of a Wife to an Author40
Black, Dr., The Death of133
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