Great Inventors and Their Inventions

Name: Great Inventors and Their Inventions
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ISBN: 9781409913399

ISBN-10: 1409913392

ISBN-13: 9781409913399

Edition: N/A

Authors: Frank P. Bachman

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UNTIL a little more than one hundred years ago, the chief power used in the production of food, clothing, and shelter was hand power. Cattle and horses were used to cultivate the fields. Windmills and water wheels were employed to grind corn and wheat. But most tools and machines were worked by hand. Men had, for many years, dreamed of a new power which would be more useful than either work animals, sails, windmills, or water wheels. This new power was steam. Yet no one had been able to apply the power of steam so that it would grind corn and wheat, spin and weave cotton and wool, or do any useful thing at all. The man who succeeded in giving to the world this new power was James Watt.…

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List price: $19.99
Publisher: Dodo Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English