Triumphs and
Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
作者：Boyd, James P. (James Penny), 1836-1910
体例：段 章数：76
字数：1,537,901 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 76 段- Requisites for Successful Dairying—Enterprise of Dairying Di
- United States Capitol, Washington, D. C. _Full page_
- As was to have been expected, Volta’s invention and discover
- Bourseul made plain the problem that was still before the in
- Improvement in lamp-lighting during the nineteenth century h
- Geissler followed Faraday with an improved system of tubes f
- Germany’s navy is of modern creation. It began, a little les
- The slow-match remained in use until well into the nineteent
- As a compromise, compound armor, i.e., iron faced with steel
- The expected return of Halley’s comet in 1835 again stimulat
- And so of the question oft discussed in the old-time debatin
- It is in these lines chiefly that botany has advanced during
- Men, viewing the literary productions of women, are apt to g
- The name of Richard Roberts stands preëminent at this period
- The latch-needle, which has given to the knitting machine gr
- Following these early victories of the Christian faith came
- Though by no means as ancient as some others, the leading li
- If there be one style more than any other which needs sunshi
- Hitherto American architecture had been most influenced by E
- The supposition of the existence of atoms was followed soon
- Fischer (b. 1852), in Germany, has contributed his remarkabl
- Goldmark, a follower of Meyerbeer, made a success in 1875 wi
- By 1703 Great Britain was ripe for a daily newspaper, and in
- The daily newspapers of the latter part of the century have
- The most notable of these were the Parthenon and the Erechth
- [Illustration: MODERN CREAMERY AND CHEESE FACTORY, WITH ICE-
- Even Plato, who dealt with nearly all duties, while insistin
- Such are the great moral issues of the present day; and in t
- The biologist has also rendered great aid to sanitary scienc
- The infantry of all the armies of Continental Europe, when d
- In 1866, the brief but bloody war between Austria and Prussi
- But great as the improvements have been in artillery, they a
- The improvement in threshing machinery has been as marked as
- In no other class of stock produced in this country has the
- Considering the specific educational influences which are el
- If we broadly define civil engineering as the art of constru
- SUEZ CANAL.—This great work permits a reduction of about 375
- The route adopted was bold enough to stagger the financier,
- With poultry, a vast number of varieties and strains have be
- The treaty of Ghent had been signed on the 24th of September
- The regular battles during the Civil War numbered 892. Linco
- The Empress and the regency retired to Blois. On March 31 Pa
- No patriot name in all history deserves more reverence than
- The Greco-Cretan-Turkish war shed no glory on the Turkish no
- The exhibition was opened July 14, 1853, with much ceremony,
- Of the thirteen large buildings, that of the United States G
- This colonial composite system of current coins was regulate
- Jackson’s message was not received favorably by Congress. Hi
- The rise and fall of the public debt from July 1, 1857, to J
- At the beginning of this period of unparalleled progress the
- One of the first things the pioneers of civilization did in
- When we consider that these small vessels in use a century a
- The statistics of the German trade before the establishment
- The outlook for iron and steel shipbuilding is so promising
- In America there have been important contributions to educat
- In 1896 there were 472 colleges and universities in the Unit
- No educational question has aroused more interest in busines
- In this press—still in use in many cities—the form of type i
- Outside of the actual learned professions, no occupation has
- In this work of sending out news not a moment is lost that c
- In general, mining progress was slow up to the middle of the
- The time was when he who leveled forests, built himself a ho
- At the time these men were telling their artistic tales in E
- When the great wave of impressionism rose and flooded the la
- AT THE DAWN OF THE CENTURY.—In the year 1579 the celebrated
- HEMORRHAGE.—The arrest and control of hemorrhage has greatly
- The earliest authentic records which we can ascertain from c
- It was Crawford W. Long, in a little village of Alabama, who
- Owing to the vigorous opposition of the government and peopl
- While the reduction in passenger rates has been comparativel
- IX. MARRIED WOMEN.—In 1800, a husband could appropriate his
- The Holmesburg Building Association was organized in January
- A fairly prosperous building society will mature its shares
- David Glascoe Farragut (b. July 5, 1801; d. August 14, 1870)
- Leland Stanford (b. March 9, 1824; d. June 20, 1893) acquire
- SOVEREIGNS.—William I., King of Prussia and Emperor of Germa