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100 1 _aMcCloy, Shelby Thomas,
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245 1 0 _aFrench Inventions of the Eighteenth Centuryby Shelby T. McCloy.
260 _a[Lexington]
_bUniversity of Kentucky Press
_c1952.
300 _a1 online resource (240 pages)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tThe balloon --
_tSteam transportation --
_tThe telegraph --
_tLighting --
_tPapermaking --
_tChemical inventions --
_tTextiles --
_tAutomata --
_tOther mechanical devices --
_tMilitary inventions --
_tMedicine and surgery --
_tPatents and encouragement.
520 0 _aThe 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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650 0 _aTechnology
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aInventors
_zFrance.
650 4 _aFrance
_xIntellectual life
_y18th century.
650 4 _aFrance
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century.
650 4 _aTechnology
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 4 _aTechnology
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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