The Age of Invention

CONTENTS



Prefatory Note

Chapter I:  Benjamin Franklin and His Times

Chapter II:  Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

Chapter III:  Steam in Captivity

Chapter IV:  Spindle, Loom, and Needle in New England

Chapter V:  The Agricultural Revolution

Chapter VI:  Agents of Communication

Chapter VII:  The Story of Rubber

Chapter VIII:    Pioneers of the Machine Shop

Chapter IX:  The Fathers of Electricity

Chapter X:  The Conquest of the Air

Bibliographical Note