French Inventions of the Eighteenth Centuryby Shelby T. McCloy.

By:

McCloy, Shelby Thomas, 1898- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Lexington] University of Kentucky Press 1952.Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813163970

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

T26 .F746 1952

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Contents:

The balloon -- Steam transportation -- The telegraph -- Lighting -- Papermaking -- Chemical inventions -- Textiles -- Automata -- Other mechanical devices -- Military inventions -- Medicine and surgery -- Patents and encouragement.

Subject: The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the rival, i.

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The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the rival, i.

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