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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.Extracts from the Private Letters of the late Sir William Fothergill Cooke, 1836-9, relating to the Invention and Development of the Electric Telegraph; also a Memoir byLatimer Clark. Edited byF. H. Webb. Sec. Inst. E. E. 8vo. (1895)30A Chronology of Inland Navigationin Great Britain. ByH. R. De Salis. Crown 8vo. (1897)46A History of Electric Telegraphyto the year 1837. ByJ. J. Fahie. 35 illus. 542 pp. crown 8vo. (1889)20History and Development of Steam Locomotion on Common Roads.ByW. Fletcher. 109 illus. 288 pp. 8vo.50Life as an Engineer: its Lights, Shades, and Prospects. ByJ. W. C. Haldane. 23 plates, 338 pp. crown 8vo. (1905)net50Philipp Reis, Inventor of the Telephone: a Biographical Sketch. By Prof.S. P. Thompson. 8vo, cloth. (1883)76The Development of the Mercurial Air Pump.By Prof.S. P. Thompson. Illustrated, royal 8vo, sewed. (1888)16

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