The Wonders of Modern Mechanism

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Excerpt from The Wonders of Modern Mechanism: A Résumé of Recent Progress in Mechanical, Physical, and Engineering ScienceThe number and value of inventions have increased so rapidly of recent years that the public has come to accept the most marvellous innovations with a readiness that soon makes of them an old story. While there are thousands of people alive to-day who remember the first railroad, the first steamboat, and the first telegraph, we have among us a younger generation who never knew what it was to be without the electric light, the telephone, the electric railway, or the mammoth daily newspaper. The genera tion that is to come will live in an age of new wonders, and surrounded by new creature conveniences, a few of which we can discern darkly. Some day, mayhap, this book will fall into the hands of some favored one living in an age made vastly more brilliant than our own, and he may smile at the so-called progress here recorded that marks the close of the nineteenth century. Let such an one re¿ect that there is beyond him a higher and a wider and a greater field of undiscovered knowledge, and that he, too, in his turn, will some day sleep with the useless, lumbering relics of the past.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.