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Het boek der uitvindingen
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424645
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Title
Het boek der uitvindingen
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Year
1860
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First edition
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255
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Sm.8vo. Orig. cloth. With wood-engraved frontispiece, nicely coloured by hand, 3 full-page engraved plates showing air balloons, and over one hundred wood-engraved illustrations in text, several full-page, showing the technical discoveries through history, incl. the new steam engines. Richly illustrated special edition for children of a larger work published earlier about the most important technical and scientific inventions from history. The book is richly illustrated with wood-engravings and published anonymously. Described and depicted here are the inventions of book printing, copper-engraving, lithography, gunpowder and firearms, lightning conductors, telegraph, air balloons and the history of aviation - covering 32 pages - , microscopes and telescopes, daguerreotypes and photography, and steam engines for railways and ships.