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Название: The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest (Classic Reprint)

Автор: Holland Thompson

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Год выпуска: 2010

ISBN: 1451005652

Издатель: Forgotten Books

Страниц: 288

Описание:
This volume is not intended to be a complete record of inventive genius and mechanical progress in the United States... All this book seeks to do is to outline the personalities of some of the outstanding American inventors and indicate the significance of their achievements. The editor of a newspaper was always a printer and often composed his articles as he set them in type; so "composing" came to mean typesetting, and one who sets type is a compositor. Now James needed an apprentice. It happened then that young Benjamin, at the age of thirteen, was bound over by law to serve his brother. James Franklin printed the "New England Courant", the fourth newspaper to be established in the colonies. Benjamin soon began to write articles for this newspaper. Then when his brother was put in jail, because he had printed matter considered libelous, and forbidden to continue as the publisher, the newspaper appeared in Benjamin's name. The young apprentice felt that his brother was unduly...