French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century

By Shelby Thomas McCloy

Book Overview

The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inven

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813153867
• ISBN13: 9780813153865
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher