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Author McCloy, Shelby T. (Shelby Thomas), 1898-1973.

Title French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century / by Shelby T. McCloy.

Publication Info. [Lexington] : University of Kentucky Press, [1952]

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages)
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Contents Balloon -- Steam transportation -- Telegraph -- Lighting -- Papermaking -- Chemical inventions -- Textiles -- Automata -- Other mechanical devices -- Military inventions -- Medicine and surgery -- Patents and encouragement.
Summary The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the rival, i.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Technology -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Technology.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Intellectual life.
Inventors -- France.
Inventors.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: McCloy, Shelby Thomas, 1898- French inventions of the eighteenth century. [Lexington] University of Kentucky Press [1952] (DLC) 52005903 (OCoLC)560969
ISBN 9780813163970 (electronic book)
0813163978 (electronic book)
0813153867
9780813153865