My Life

ISBN: 9781331534686 出版年：2016 页码：392 Hiram S Maxim Forgotten Books

Brasher's Falls - Reading the dictionary through - Painting and decorating carriages - A drink of pure alcohol - Flooring the village wrestler - A fight with Louis Hentz the local bully - Fight for the championship with John Tester - A discussion on Hydraulics - Return to the State of MaineWorking a big lathe on cast iron at Fitchburg, Mass. - A record job on a brass finisher's lathe - Computing the power of an engine - Working as a mechanical draughtsman and a coppersmith - The grand worthy patriach of the Sons of Temperance goes on a drunken debauch and what came of it - Spiritualism - Obtain work in Boston - Density regulators - Inventing gas machines - Automatic sprinklersWorking in New York City - The Novelty Iron Works - Big Wooden ships - The all-knowing German - Inventing a steam trap - Locomotive head-lightsA trip to the Southern States - Extraordinary state of affairs - The reign of the revolver - The girl in the chain gang - Act as hotel engineerThe large gas machine at Saratoga - Stopping a leak - Putting a steam fire-engine in orderLifting competition with an Irishman - General O'Neal's invasion of Canada - Proposed conquest of England - The brave general arrested - O'Connor and the earthquake - Wonderful display of gold watches - Five years for drawing the badger - Red Jersey mud and the envelope swindle - A wonderful old bruiser - The insurance man - The engine-driver's fortuneElectric lighting - A slow boat and a fast boat - Brandy and milk - The first platinum lamp - Report as to how an incandescent lamp might be made - A terrific explosion prophesied