1000 Things Worth Knowing: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

1000 Things Worth Knowing, credited to Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr., is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of 1000 Things Worth Knowing by Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.. Read in English by volunteer readers. Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large section on medical emergency and health. Items are arranged in alphabetical order, so there is no logical presentation, but reference is made easy. Or, it is just interesting browsing, and a glimpse into the world of the early twentieth century. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: 1000 Things Worth Knowing
• Author credits: Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 79
• Listed recording duration: 8:27:18

Catalogue topics

• medicine
• knowledge
• almanac
• encyclopedia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 79

1. 00 - Preface — 1:22
2. 01 - Acetylene Gas - Artificial Ice — 5:35
3. 02 - Atlantic Cable — 6:52
4. 03 - Atmosphere - Birth Stones — 5:51
5. 04 - Blind - Brook Farm — 5:38
6. 05 - Calculating Interest — 11:03
7. 06 - Canals - Celluloid — 6:48
8. 07 - Certified Checks - Climate and Temperature — 4:47
9. 08 - Coal Industry - Comets — 4:58
10. 09 - Common Measurements - Communism and Socialism — 5:09
11. 10 - Comparative Population of the United States - Corsets — 12:31
12. 11 - Cosmetics - Crust of the Earth — 5:19
13. 12 - Daguerreotypes - Digestibility of Foods — 4:39
14. 13 - Distances Between Cities in the United States — 28:46
15. 14 - Diving Bells - Dynamite — 5:35
16. 15 - Earth Facts - Earthquakes — 5:36
17. 16 - Earthquake Areas of the Earth - Embezzlement — 5:47
18. 17 - Errors of History - Esperanto — 5:00
19. 18 - Failures - Farm Production — 11:33
20. 19 - First Trans-Atlantic Steamship - Foretelling the Weather — 5:21
21. 20 - Freemasonry - Grain Industry — 4:58
22. 21 - Gravity - Great Tunnels — 4:47
23. 22 - Hair Growers - Health — 4:03
24. 23 - Historical Facts — 14:03

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