Eminent Engineers: Brief Biographies of Thirty-Two of the Inventors and Engineers Who Did Most to Further Mechanical Progress (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Eminent Engineers: Brief Biographies of Thirty-Two of the Inventors and Engineers Who Did Most to Further Mechanical ProgressThese short biographies were originally written from 1903 to 1906 and issued in monthly numbers by Wyman & Gordon, manufacturers of drop forgings, Worcester, Mass. and Cleveland, Ohio.Some of them have been entirely re-written others enlarged and revised, and others left as originally written.In the selection of names, those have been included who have accomplished something of importance in the development and application of power and machinery.For convenience, the book is divided into two parts - European and American.Cleveland, October 1st, 1905.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.