Nature's Miracles Volume 1: World Building and Life
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Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is considered by some writers to be the true inventor of the variable resistance telephone, despite losing out to Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent.
Nature's Miracles: Familiar Talks on Science, published in 1900, is a discussion of science and technology for the general public. Volume I is subtitled World Building and Life: Earth, Air and Water.
Contents:
00 - Introduction
01 - Earth - Chapter I. World-building and Life
02 - Earth - Chapter II. Limestone
03 - Earth - Chapter III. Coal
04 - Earth - Chapter IV. Slate and Shale
05 - Earth - Chapter V. Salt
06 - Air - Chapter VI. The Atmosphere
07 - Air - Chapter VII. Air Temperature
08 - Air - Chapter VIII. Cloud Formation
09 - Air - Chapter IX. Cloud Formation (Continued)
10 - Air - Chapter X. Wind -- Why it Blows
11 - Air - Chapter XI. Wind (Continued)
12 - Air - Chapter XII. Local Winds
13 - Air - Chapter XIII. Weather Predictions
14 - Air - Chapter XIV. How Dew is Formed
15 - Air - Chapter XV. Hailstones and Snow
16 - Air - Chapter XVI. Meteors
17 - Air - Chapter XVII. The Sky and its Color
18 - Air - Chapter XVIII. Liquid Air
19 - Water - Chapter XIX. Rivers and Floods
20 - Water - Chapter XX. Tides
21 - Water - Chapter XXI. What is a Sponge?
22 - Water - Chapter XXII. Water and Ice
23 - Water - Chapter XXIII. Stored Energy in Water
24 - Water - Chapter XXIV. Why does Ice Float?
25 - Water - Chapter XXV. Glaciers
26 - Water - Chapter XXVI. Evidences and Theories of an Ice Age
27 - Water - Chapter XXVII. Glacial and Preglacial Lakes and Rivers
28 - Water - Chapter XXVIII. Some Effects of the Glacial Period Guero
29 - Water - Chapter XXIX. Drainage Before the Ice Age *
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