My Life (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Maxim, Hiram S.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from My Life Brasher´s Falls - Reading the dictionary through - Painting and decorating carriages - A drink of pure alcohol - Flooring the village wrestler - A fight with Louis Hentz the local bully - Fight for the championship with John Tester - A discussion on Hydraulics - Return to the State of Maine Working a big lathe on cast iron at Fitchburg, Mass. - A record job on a brass finisher´s lathe - Computing the power of an engine - Working as a mechanical draughtsman and a coppersmith - The grand worthy patriach of the Sons of Temperance goes on a drunken debauch and what came of it - Spiritualism - Obtain work in Boston - Density regulators - Inventing gas machines - Automatic sprinklers Working in New York City - The Novelty Iron Works - Big Wooden ships - The all-knowing German - Inventing a steam trap - Locomotive head-lights A trip to the Southern States - Extraordinary state of affairs - The reign of the revolver - The girl in the chain gang - Act as hotel engineer The large gas machine at Saratoga - Stopping a leak - Putting a steam fire-engine in order Lifting competition with an Irishman - General O´Neal´s invasion of Canada - Proposed conquest of England - The brave general arrested - O´Connor and the earthquake - Wonderful display of gold watches - Five years for drawing the badger - Red Jersey mud and the envelope swindle - A wonderful old bruiser - The insurance man - The engine-driver´s fortune Electric lighting - A slow boat and a fast boat - Brandy and milk - The first platinum lamp - Report as to how an incandescent lamp might be made - A terrific explosion prophesied 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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