Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era
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| Author | Boyd, James P. (James Penny), 1836-1910 |
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| Title |
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 |
| Contents | Wonders of electricity -- The century's naval progress -- Astronomy during the century -- Story of plant and flower -- Progress of women within the century -- The century's textile progress -- The century's religious progress -- Great growth of libraries -- Progress of the century in architecture -- The century's progress in chemistry -- The century's music and drama -- The century's literature -- The records of the past -- Progress in dairy farming -- The century's moral progress -- Progress of sanitary science -- The century's armies and arms -- The century's progress in agriculture -- Progress in civil engineering -- The century's progress in the animal world -- Leading wars of the century -- The century's fairs and expositions -- The century's progress in coinage, currency, and banking -- The century's progress in fruit culture -- The century's commercial progress -- Education during the century -- "The art preservative" -- Progress in mines and mining -- Art progress of the century -- The century's advance in surgery -- Progress of medicine -- Evolution of the railway -- Advance in law and justice -- Evolution of building and loan associations -- Epoch-makers of the century. |
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| Language | English |
| LoC Class | D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere |
| Subject | Progress |
| Subject | Inventions |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 55390 |
| Release Date | Aug 20, 2017 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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