1890 Science Wonders Newton Edison Faraday Trains Telephone Electric C @ $500

I have some books posted in either antiques, art, or a collectible category, but you can……………… To see my son’s old books. Seven Modern Wonders of the World. London, Routledge and sons. Beautiful pictorial hardcover with gilt lettering. THE STEAM ENGINE / THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH / THE PHOTOGRAPH / THE SEWING MACHINE / THE SPECTROSCOPE / THE ELECTRIC LIGHT / THE TELEPHONE: with Microphone and phonograph…. And so much more – the index is 7 pages long! Lots of famous scientists! Please zoom in on. Photos carefully as they are part of the description. All of my books are VERY OLD and have 100+ years of wear to varying degrees. Very good plus condition…. For its age [131 years old]. Boards – very secure, back cover looks really good for its age. Pages very secure. Spine ends – pretty good – light wear and some splitting. Inner hinges – very good. Pages – very clean. Writing – 1890 on ffep in pencil and “to John with love from cuz Ron 1984″ on the back of the frontis. Rips /folds – no rips that I saw / 9. Folds mostly the wee tips. Gilt on covers still pretty bright. All the things you thought you knew, but really don’t! Please Add me to your Favorites list. AND check back now and then to see what’s new! Otherwise I can’t send you a new invoice. Don’t panic, I will get to ASAP. T can take up to 14 days to get back East. All others please contact me. This book is very old and. May have accumulated bad smells along the way [musty basement/ mildew/ smoke]. I have found that. Dryer sheets in them for a few months makes a world of difference! My nose doesn’t work like it use to. So the old book smell doesn’t bother me. As far as I can tell -this book does not smell bad. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, 1, Hero’s Aeolipile 2, De Caus’ Hot-water Fountain 3. The Marquis of Worcester in the Tower of Lindy 4, Savery’s Receivers and Boilers 5, Captain Savery’s Pumping Steam-Engine 6,-Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine 7. James Wattand his Aunt 8, Watt’s Steam Engine 9Cylinderand Piston 10. The Parallel Motion 11. The Governor and the Throttle Valve 12, Statue of Watt in Handsworth Church 13, Watt’s Double-Acting Steam Engine 14, Section of Locomotive 15, The Present Locomotive and Tram 16. The Dipping Needle 17, Franklin’s Experiment 18, Plate Electric Machine 19. A Cylinder Electric Machine 20. A Leyden Jar 21. Coulomb’s Torsion Balance 22. Gold Leaf Electroscope 23. Galvani’s Experiment 24. Portrait of Volta 25. Frog’s Legs and Spine 26, Voltaic Pile 27, The Crown of Cups 28. Ersted’s Discovery 29. Magnetic Needle above the eletric Wire 30. Magnetic Needle below the Electric Wire 31. Portrait of Ampére 32. Portrait of Morse 33. Telegraphic Post and insulators 34, Earth Plates and electric Circuit 35. Cable between Dover and Calais 36. Section of cable between Dover and Calais. 37 Atlantic Cable of 1866 and Section of it 38, Mirror Galvanometer 39. Cooke and Wheatstone’s Double-Needle telegraph 40, Connection of Telegraphic Line with Morse Instruments 41. Roger Bacon 42, The Camera and Plate-holder 43, Section of Lens holder 44, Cap and Lens-holder 45, Sir Isaac Newton 46. Newton’s Revelation of the Solar Spectrum 47. Sir Humphry Davy 49. Tourist’s Camera, ready for use 51. Dipperin Bath 52, Ground-glass plate at Back of Camera 63. Dark Curtained Tent for Out-door Photography 54. Bellows-shaped Camera: Front View 55. A Dipper-Bath and Dipper 58. The Glass Plate held between Finger anal Thumh 59, The Printing or Pressure-Frame, with Springs 60. Printing or Pressure-Frame, with buttons 61. The First Sewing- Machine 63. The Lock Stitch 65. The Rotating Hook 66. The Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine 67. Sectional View of Glass Prism 68. Decomposition of Light through Prism, 69. Wollaston’s Experiment, No. 2 71, Fraunhofer’s Lines 72. Spectra with Graduated Seal 74, Spectroscope with Two Prisms. Spectioscope with Several Prisms 76. Spectrum of Nebulae and of Electric spark 78. Differences of Spectra 79, Apparatus for showing Spectrum on Screen 80, Star Spectroscope 81. Apparatus for Spark Spectra 82. Miniature Direct Vision Spectroscope 83. Section of Micro-Spectroscope 84. A Bunsen Burner on Stand 85. Bunsen’s Apparatus for Viewing the Specta of flames 86. The Sun’s Corona 87, Celestial Cynosures fur Spectrum analysis 88. Candle, Flint, Steel, Matches, Tinder- Box 89, Indian Method of obtaining Fire by Friction 90. Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy 91. Magneto-Electric Spark between Two Carbon Points 92, Enlarged Images of Carbon Points Projected on a Screen 93. Browning’s Electric Regulator 94. Magneto- Electric Light 95, An Electric Current through a Coil of Wire changing an iron rod into a Magnet 96. Experimental Gramme Machine 97, Gramme Machine with Eight Horizontal Electro-Magnets 98. Gramme Machine with Eight Vertical Electro-Magnets 99. Jablochkoff Candle 2 100. Edison’s Electric Lamp 101. Thread Telephone 102. Wheatstone’s Telephonic Concert 103. Philip Reiss’s Telephone 104. Graham Bell’s Telephone 105. Telephone joined to Telegraph 106, Exterior of Edison’s Loud-Speaking telephone 107, Diagram Showing the Action of the Shouting Telephone 108. The Nail Microphone 109. Section of the Carbon microphone 110. A Microphone Battery Cell 111. Microphone in Circuit with Battery and telephone 112. Microphone on Ebonite Plate 113. Microphone on Sounding Box 114. Horizontal Bar Microphone 115. Edison’s First Phonograph 116. A Section of the Phonograph 117. Contact between Needle and Phonogram regulated by a Pedal 118. Cutting Style on the Wax cylinder of the Graphophone. The item “1890 SCIENCE WONDERS NEWTON EDISON FARADAY TRAINS TELEPHONE ELECTRIC C @ $500″ is in sale since Thursday, August 12, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Science & Medicine (Pre-1930)\Other Antique Science, Medical”. The seller is “craminn” and is located in Sherwood, Oregon. This item can be shipped to United States.