Fessenden - Builder of Tomorrows

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Biographies & Memoirs

FESSENDEN, HELEN M.

Professionals & Academics

Ramsay Press

Our Jerusalem

Travel

Vester, Bertha Spafford

Reference

American Potters and Pottery

Ramsay. John.

Arts & Photography

This vintage book provides information on the essentials of cricket in the form of a comprehensive yet concise treatise. With explanations of the rules, instructions for proper play, and tips on mastering the game, this is a volume that will appeal to novices with a desire to learnt the ins and outs of the game. “How's That? - A Little Book On Cricket For Boys And Beginners” would make for a fantastic addition to any collection, and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage sporting literature. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of cricket.

Hows That? - A Little Book on Cricket for Boys and Beginners

Sports & Outdoors

Herman, H M

Other Team Sports

BUILDER OF TOMORROWS by HELEN M. FESSENDEN. Firat published in New York 1940. FOREWORD: To THE WORLD of Today and the World of Tomorrow, worlds alike benefited and enriched by the life of Reginald A. Fessenden, I give the man himself. That the mind which conceived the correct theory of wireless transmission, which invented the Wireless Telephone and with it accomplished the first Broadcasting, which invented and developed the Fathometer and all it implied, that this mind failed to de fend itself against commercial assault, whether financial or scientific, is an inescapable fact. For this fact I make no apology. Mine is the setting forth of factual data, an indication of trends, not the indictment of any man or group of men. Without a straightforward account of certain legal encounters, the life of my husband would be but partly told. The outcome of these encounters is a matter of court record which he who runs may read. It is however not by court decisions but by his work that the man will be remembered. It is a pet idea of mine that one gets more real truth out o one avowed partisan than out of a dozen of your sham impartialists wolves in sheeps clothing simpering honesty as they suppress documents. After all, what one wants to know is not what people did, but why they did it or rather why they thought they did it and to learn that you should go to the men themselves, their very falsehood is often more than another mans truth. Contents include: CONTENTS I. FOREBEARS AND CHILDHOOD . . 3 II. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE 13 III. BERMUDA 23 IV. NEW YORK 27 V. A YANKEE BOY AND A CHINA MUG . 31 VI. FESSENDEN FINDS HIMSELF ... 39 VII. NEWARK, PITTSFIELD AND PURDUE 47 VIII. PITTSBURGH DAYS 64 IX. A MOMENTOUS DECISION .... 73 X. WIRELESS AT ROANOKE ISLAND . . 86 XI. NATIONAL ELECTRIC SIGNALING COMPANY 105 XII. WIRELESS AS A BUSINESS ENTER PRISE AND TRANS-ATLANTIC STA TIONS 119 XIII. TRANS-ATLANTIC WORKING ... 131 XIV. DASHED HOPES 140 XV. WIRELESS TELEPHONY AND THE HIGH-FREQUENCY ALTERNATOR 147 XVI. DIFFICULTIES-LEGISLATIVE AND COMPANY 157 XVII. SERVICE ABROAD 169 XVIII. DESTRUCTION AT HOME .... 182 VI CONTENTS XIX. DUST AND ASHES 188 XX. POWER AND POWER STORAGE . . 194 XXI. TURBO-ELECTRIC DRIVE. THE FES SENDEN COMBUSTION ENGINE . 804 XXII. SUBMARINE SIGNALING AND THE FESSENDEN OSCILLATOR ... 214 XXIII. THE WORLD WAR 224 XXIV. SUBMARINE SIGNALING IN WAR TIME AND CIVILIAN WAR BOARDS 235 XXV. OTHER EVENTS OF WAR YEARS . . 255 XXVI. INVENTION 261 XXVII. GREAT AGES 275 XXVIII. LOOKING FAR BACKWARDS - THE DELUGED CIVILIZATION ... 286 XXIX. THE FESSENDEN FATHOMETER . .297 XXX. OTHER DEVICES 304 XXXI. GOD ALMIGHTY HATES A QUITTER 3 1 2 XXXII. SANCTUARY 335 ADDENDA I. SUMMARY. THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF REGINALD A. FESSENDEN 347 II. FESSENDENS DISCOVERY OF THE ELEC TROSTATIC DOUBLET THEORY AND OF THE NATURE OF COHESION AND ELASTICITY-as told by himself .... 348 III. BIBLIOGRAPHY 353 FESSENDEN Builder of Tomorrows. CHAPTER I. FOREBEARS AND CHILDHOOD. REGINALD AUBREY FESSENDEN was born on October 6, 1866 in the rectory of the small parish of East Bolton on a bay of Lake Memphremagog, Lower Canada. The tapestry of commingled lives that forms the back ground of an individual is always revealing. The pattern never exactly repeats itself, but dominant characteristics re cur again and again. Fortunate is the man whose birthright is a fabric, close knit, clean and strong such a one is indeed well born. From Kent, from Yorkshire, from Northumber land came the warp threads of the fabric forming the back ground of this rectory baby...

OUR Jerusalem- an American Family in the Holy City, 1881-1949 by Bertha Spafford Vester. Introduction by LOWELL THOMAS. Many of the earliest books, dated from the 1900s and before, are extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, modern editions using the original text and artwork.

<p>Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.</p>

<p>This text includes a comprehensive guide for the aspiring sportsman, covering such topics as Handling The Gun The Rifle, and The Rod; The Art of Shooting on The Wing; The Breaking, Management, and Hunting of the Dog; The Varieties and Habits of Game; River, Lake, and Sea Fishing, Etc. Dealing more with the practice and less with the higher spirit of species of game and aims more at teaching the beginner in the trade how to centre himself in his apprenticeship. A book that will appeal to both modern sporting enthusiasts and collectors of rare sporting literature, this timeless tome is a gem not to be missed. This book was originally published in 1886 and we are proud to republish it here with a new introductory biography of the author. Henry William Herbert was a novelist, illustrator, poet, historian, journalist, and prolific writer on the subject of sport.</p>

The Complete Manual for the Young Sportsman

Forester, Frank

History

The Entail Or The Lairds Of Grippy

GALT, JOHN

Bee-Keeping For Beginners And Others

This antique text contains a detailed guide to bee-keeping, and will appeal to the more advanced beekeeper as well as to the novice. This book is divided into three parts: the first guides the novice from the time when he first decides to take up the craft until the end of his first season; the second deals in detail with the year's work in the apiary, showing how the various problems that confront the bee-keeper in the second and subsequent years should be met; whilst the third, in addition to dealing with diseases and other miscellaneous subjects, contains the formulae and other useful information which more advanced bee-keepers will find of interest. The chapters of this book include: 'The Honey-Bee', 'Natural History', 'The Inhabitants of the Hive', 'The Queen', 'The Workers', 'The Drones', 'Parthenogenesis', 'Metamorphosis', 'Bees and Honey', 'Hives', 'Bee-Keeping in Antiquity', 'The Bee Space', 'British Types', 'The National Hive', 'American Hives', 'Frame Sizes', 'Races of Bees', etcetera. This antique text is being republished here with a new introduction on bee keeping.

James, E L B

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Fessenden - Builder of Tomorrows

Our Jerusalem

American Potters and Pottery

Hows That? - A Little Book on Cricket for Boys and Beginners

Fessenden - Builder of Tomorrows

Our Jerusalem

American Potters and Pottery

The Complete Manual for the Young Sportsman

The Entail Or The Lairds Of Grippy

Bee-Keeping For Beginners And Others