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ReMaking History
Industrial Revolutionaries
William Gurstelle
ReMaking History, Volume 2
Industrial Revolutionaries
By William Gurstelle
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About the Author
William Gurstelle has been writing for Make: magazine
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“ReMaking History” columns, his work there has included
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Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
About the Author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
The Dawn of the Machine Age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
The Industrial Revolutionaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
viii Contents
Making a Parade Torch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Contents ix
Chapter 7 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and the
Chemistry of Fireproofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Education of a Chemist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
x Contents
10 Alessandro Volta and Electrodeposition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Volta Harnesses Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Contents xi
The Dawn of the Machine Age
The projects in this book were inspired by inventions of
the time period from about 1700 to 1875, a period often
known as the Industrial Revolution (see Figure I.1). This
was a very, very important time in the history of invention.
Before this period, most things were made one item at a
time by craftsmen like blacksmiths and stonecutters. But
this was a slow and expensive way to make things, espe-
cially for items many people were interested in buying
and using.
John Shore and Benjamin Franklin Giovanni Venturi and Alessandro Volta
the Tuning Fork and the Leyden Jar the Venturi Effect and Electroplating
1700
1700 1750 1800
Humphry Davy
and the Arc Light
Josephh Louis G
Gay-Lussac Charles Goodyear and Henry Bessemer Abraham Lincoln and
and Fireproofing Vulcanizing Rubber and the Age of Steel the Campaign Torch
1810
1810 1850 1870
18
870
4. Place the steel pipe in the vise and form the cooled wire
around the pipe to make the round top and bottom
springs of the gun, as shown in Figure 1.3.
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