The Romance of Modern Invention: Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Submarines, Airships and Other Marvels
Archibald Williams
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The inventions of one generation explained to the next: wireless, the telephone and phonograph, the submarine, animated pictures, liquid air, the horseless carriage and the first flying machines. Archibald Williams wrote it at the turn of the century, when every one of these was still startling. The book is a good measure of what a well-informed reader understood before the war changed all of it. Fifty-nine plates by painters including Turner and Menzel show the Nova Reperta inventions, from printing to eyeglasses, matching Williams's account of how each new machine remade the world.
The inventions of one generation explained to the next: wireless, the telephone and phonograph, the submarine, animated pictures, liquid air, the horseless carriage and the first flying machines. Archibald Williams wrote it at the turn of the century, when every one of these was still startling. ...
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Archibald Williams (1871–1934) wrote about engines, bridges, wireless and the workshop for boys who wanted to know how things were made, in an age when a schoolboy could still take the back off most of them.
Archibald Williams (1871–1934) wrote about engines, bridges, wireless and the workshop for boys who wanted to know how things were made, in an age when a schoolboy could still take the back off most of them.
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