| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
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The balloon -- Steam transportation -- The telegraph -- Lighting -- Papermaking -- Chemical inventions -- Textiles -- Automata -- Other mechanical devices -- Military inventions -- Medicine and surgery -- Patents and encouragement |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Inventors -- France
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Intellectual life
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Inventors
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Technology
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051440
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813163970 |
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0813163978 |
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