Triumphs of Enterprise, Ingenuity, and Public Spirit.

vi, [13]-677, [7] pp. 8vo. A collection of brief histories of various inventions, scientific advancements, and other notable firsts, including: The Cooper Institute and Its Founder; The Wonderful Growth of Chicago; Charles Dickens as a Citizen; The Founder of the Vassar College; The Beginnings of Science in the United States; Origin of the Electric Telegraph; From the Carpenter's Bench to Presidency of a College. A Sketch of the Career of Jared Sparks; History of the Sewing-Machine; Invention of Circulating Libraries; Some of the Marvels and Curiosities of Pittsburgh; Origin of the Cotton-Weaving Machinery; John Fillmore and His Victory over the Pirates; Singular Triumph of Resolution. Painting without Hands; One of the Heroes of Literature: Thomas Hood; The First Bostonian and the First New-Yorker; The Founders of the Literature of the United States: Irving, Cooper, Bryant; Two of Our Bohemians: Edgar A. Poe and Artemas Ward. How They Lived, and Why They Died So Young; Josiah Quincy: A Model Gentleman of the Old School; The Piano among Us, and the History of the Instrument from the Remotest Times; Anecdotes of Faraday; Thomas Nast; David Crockett: A Sketch of His Life, and One of His Exploits; Oil Paintings by Machinery; The Founder of the Rothschilds; A Millionnaire in the Ranks; How the American People Learned to Nominate Presidents; The Founder of the Internal Improvement System of the United States; Unromantic Truth; Pocahontas and Her Husband; Invention of the Compass, and Who First Used It; Discovery of the Island of Madeira; The Real Merits of Columbus; The Naming of the New World; The Wisest of the Pagans, and Some of His Thoughts; Aristotle: His Knowledge and His Ignorance; Invention of the Daguerrotype; John Macadam; William Ged, the First Stereotyper; A French Tory: Pierre Antoine Berryer; John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians; Life, Trial, and Execution of Algernon Sidney; The City of St. Louis; What Sort of Man is Bismarck?; Painless Surgery by Ether; Benjamin Thompson, alias Count Rumford.