The Great Inventions
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Excerpt from The Great Inventions: Their History, From the Earliest Period to the Present, Their Influence on Civilization, Accompanied by Sketches of Lives of the Principal Inventors; Their Labors, Their Hardships and Their Triumphs It is safe to assert that no class of effort has been as pre-eminent in the development of civilization as that of invention. It has given us substantially everything we possess which distinguishes us from our savage ancestors. When invention has slept, humanity has slept also, or else has retrograded towards barbarism. Effort so conspicuous, so deserving of commendation is entitled to more substantial recognition than it has yet received. Hitherto what has been said of invention has been scattered through the books. Nobody has apparently thought it worth while to collect what may be said of inventors and their works as has been done with other classes of efforts and the men who were prominent in their production. Frequently this has been done in cases where the classes of results have been far less influential than invention in the part played in the drama of the world´s progress. It is to remedy this injustice that this work has been prepared. It will undertake to show how civilization has been influenced by invention, and how the latter has been the leader and not the follower of the former. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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