Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches, credited to Unknown, 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 Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches by Unknown. Read in English by David Wales "In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives and labours of inventors and explorers, not of our own country alone, but of others, for knowledge is of no country, but of all. The object of the collector has been rather to present the popular than the strictly scientific side of his subject, to furnish materials of interest and amusement, as well as instruction; and if now and then he has been tempted to stray into bye-paths of anecdote and gossip, excuse may readily be found in the fact that the private life of our men of science, often singularly noble and full of character, is apt to be altogether obscured by the brilliancy of the results of their secret and silent toil. This volume will have served its purpose, if it excites an appetite for fuller and deeper inquisition into the sources of British greatness and of modern civilization." Since there are no chapter or other divisions of these anecdotes, the reader has chosen to read entries for about thirty minutes per section. There is an index of topics in the printed book available on projectgutenberg.org. (From Book Introductory Note and David Wales)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches
• Author credits: Unknown
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 4:37:06

Catalogue topics

• history
• nineteenth century
• invention
• technology
• discovery

Track guide

1. 00 - Introductory Note — 2:16
2. 01 - Section 1 — 30:22
3. 02 - Section 2 — 30:20
4. 03 - Section 3 — 29:05
5. 04 - Section 4 — 27:50
6. 05 - Section 5 — 30:21
7. 06 - Section 6 — 31:15
8. 07 - Section 7 — 30:11
9. 08 - Section 8 — 37:24
10. 09 - Section 9 — 28:02

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