XLIII; A.P.Yerkes, "The Gas Tractor in Eastern Farming" (1918), U.S.Department of Agriculture, Farmer's Bulletin 1004; and Herbert N.Casson and others, "Horse, Truck and Tractor; the Coming of Cheaper Power for City and Farm" (1913).
CHAPTER VI
An account of an early "agent of communication" is given by W.F.
Bailey, article on the "Pony Express" in "The Century Magazine", vol.XXXIV (1898).For the story of the telegraph and its inventors, see: S.I.Prime, "Life of Samuel F.B.Morse" (1875);S.F.B.Morse, "The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph" (1858) and "Examination of the Telegraphic Apparatus and the Process in Telegraphy" (1869); Guglielmo Marconi, "The Progress of Wireless Telegraphy" (1912) in the "Transactions of the New York Electrical Society", no.15; and Ray Stannard Baker, "Marconi's Achievement" in McClure's Magazine, vol.XVIII (1902).On the telephone, see Herbert N.Casson, "History of the Telephone"(1910); and Alexander Graham Bell, "The Telephone" (1878).On the cable: Charles Bright, "The Story of the Atlantic Cable" (1903).
For facts in the history of printing and descriptions of printing machines, see: Edmund G.Gress, "American Handbook of Printing"(1907); Robert Hoe, "A Short History of the Printing Press and of the Improvements in Printing Machinery" (1902); and Otto Schoenrich, "Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler and History of the Linotype" (1898), written under Mr.Mergenthaler's direction.On the best-known New York newspapers, see: H.Hapgood and A.B.
Maurice, "The Great Newspapers of the United States; the New York Newspapers," in "The Bookman", vols.XIV and XV (1902).On the typewriter, see Charles Edward Weller, "The Early History of the Typewriter" (1918).On the camera, Paul Lewis Anderson, "The Story of Photography" (1918) in "The Mentor", vol.vi, no.19.;and on the motion picture, Colin N.Bennett, "The Handbook of Kinematography"; "The History, Theory and Practice of Motion Photography and Projection", London: "Kinematograph Weekly"(1911).
CHAPTER VII
For information on the subject of rubber and the life of Charles Goodyear, see: H.Wickham, "On the Plantation, Cultivation and Curing of Para Indian Rubber", London (1908); Francis Ernest Lloyd, "Guayule, a Rubber Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert", Washington (1911), Carnegie Institute publication no.139;Charles Goodyear, "Gum Elastic and Its Varieties" (1853) ; James Parton, "Famous Americans of Recent Times" (1867); and "The Rubber Industry, Being the Official Report of the Proceedings of the International Rubber Congress" (London, 1911), edited by Joseph Torey and A.Staines Manders.
CHAPTER VIII
J.W.Roe, "English and American Tool Builders" (1916), and J.V.
Woodworth, "American Tool Making and Interchangeable Manufacturing" (1911), give general accounts of great American mechanics.
For an account of John Stevens and Robert L.and E.A.Stevens, see George Iles, "Leading American Inventors" (1912); Dwight Goddard, "A Short Story of John Stevens and His Sons" in "Eminent Engineers" (1905), and R.H.Thurston, "The Messrs.Stevens, of Hoboken, as Engineers, Naval Architects and Philanthropists"(1874), "Journal of the Franklin Institute", October, 1874.For Whitney's contribution to machine shop methods, see Olmsted's "Memoir" already cited and Roe and Woodworth, already cited.For Blanchard, see Dwight Goddard, "A Short Story of Thomas Blanchard" in "Eminent Engineers" (1905), and for Samuel Colt, see his own "On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-Breech Fire Arms, and Their Peculiarities"(1855), an excerpt from the "Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers", vol.XI (1853), and Henry Barnard, "Armsmear; the Home, the Arm, and the Armory of Samuel Colt"(1866).
CHAPTER IX
"The Story of Electricity" (1919) is a popular history edited by T.C.Martin and S.L.Coles.A more specialized account of electrical inventions may be found in George Bartlett Prescott's "The Speaking Telephone, Electric Light, and Other Recent Electrical Inventions" (1879).
For Joseph Henry's achievements, see his own "Contributions to Electricity and Galvanism" (1835-42) and "On the Application of the Principle of the Galvanic Multiplier to Electromagnetic Apparatus" (1831), and the accounts of others in Henry C.
Cameron's "Reminiscences of Joseph Henry" and W.B.Taylor's "Historical Sketch of Henry's Contribution to the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph" (1879), Smithsonian Report, 1878.
"A List of References on the Life and Inventions of Thomas A.
Edison " may be found in the Division of Bibliography, U.S.
Library of Congress (1916).See also F.L.Dyer and T.C.Martin, "Edison; His Life and Inventions" (1910), and "Mr.Edison's Reminiscences of the First Central Station" in "The Electrical Review", vol.XXXVIII.On other special topics see: F.E.Leupp, "George Westinghouse, His Life and Achievements" (1918); Elihu Thomson, "Induction of Electric Currents and Induction Coils"(1891), "Journal of the Franklin Institute", August, 1891; and Alex Dow, "The Production of Electricity by Steam Power" (1917).
CHAPTER X
Charles C.Turner, "The Romance of Aeronautics" (1912); "The Curtiss Aviation Book", by Glenn H.Curtiss and Augustus Post (1912); Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M.Manly, "Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight" (Smithsonian Institution, 1911);"Our Atlantic Attempt", by H.G.Hawker and K.Mackenzie Grieve (1919); "Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours", by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1920); "Practical Aeronautics", by Charles B.
Hayward, with an Introduction by Orville Wright (1912);"Aircraft; Its Development in War and Peace", by Evan J.David (1919).Accounts of the flights across the Atlantic are given in "The Aerial Year Book and Who's Who in the Air" (1920), and the story of NC4 is told in "The Flight Across the Atlantic", issued by the Department of Education, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation (1919).
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