Overview
Little Masterpieces of Science: Inventors is a classic science history text. To a good many of us the inventor is the true hero for he multiplies the working value of life. He performs an old task with new economy, as when he devises a mowing-machine to oust the scythe; or he creates a service wholly new, as when he bids a landscape depict itself on a photographic plate. He, and his twin brother, the discoverer, have eyes to read a lesson that Nature has held for ages under the undiscerning gaze of other men. Where an ordinary observer sees, or thinks he sees, diversity, a Franklin detects identity, as in the famous experiment here recounted which proves lightning to be one and the same with a charge of the Leyden jar.
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- ISBN-13: 9781508614746
- ISBN-10: 1508614741
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: February 2015
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.21 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.32 pounds
- Page Count: 102
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