Inventions and Discoveries

14 pages in this part of The Busy Man's Hand-Book.

A. D. 807 1801 1588 1803 1816 1340 1740 1681 e 1817 1783 .. 1785 1850 1851 1605 B. C. 1200 B. C. 300 A. D. 1280 • 1337 1620 1623 • 1463…

Plated Goods (Th. Bolsover) Plates covered with the white of egg, in photography (Niepce, of St. Victor) Platinum, first brought to Europe…

Press, hydraulic (Bramah) 1817 Press, for stamping leather, etc. (Lobsinger, at Nuremberg) Pressing-boards in England Pressing-boards in…

Schweinfurt green 1844 Screw cutting machine, self-acting, invented by Rechsteiner 1854 Screw ship engine (Daniel Bernouilli). 1752 Screw…

B. C. 1084 Stamp-cutting, art of, among the Germans (L. Janson Coster) A. D: 1430 Steam apparatus of Sulomonde Caux 1612 • Steam…

Steel-engraving, process of decarbonizing (Charles Heath) A. D. 1820 Stenographic system of Bertin Stenography, French, first attempts…

A. D. 1643 Tourbines (Fourneyron) 1827 Tubular bridges, the first, across the Conway, constructed by Stephenson 1848 Tunnel (Brunel) 1804…

A. D. 1781 1640 . 1789 1782 1796 1832 1815 B. C. 1300 Veneer-mill (Reenner, at Augsburg) A. D. 1565 Violin clavichord (Hohlfeld) 1757…

Whole Population. Roman Catholics. Protestants. Eastern Churches. Countries.

Episcopalians 21,305,000 | Unitarians.

Aisle. A passage at the side of the nave.

Anabaptists. A sect of Christians, founded 1521, who hold that baptism is only to be administered to adults, and insist upon the necessity…

Baptists. Established in England, 1608. They hold that baptism should be performed by immersion , and that only after a personal and…

Quakers or "Friends." Established 1646 by George Fox, who rejected all religious ordinances, etc. The Quakers have no liturgy, forms of…