| This digital CDbook is re-published from the
1917 Universal Book of Knowledge and Wonders. It contains 594 pages and 780 photos and
drawings (which is all included from the original book). It has 52 stories describing the
great inventions, the inventors, huge undertakings, accomplishments and much more. You can
definitely realize by reading this CDbook, how each and every story contained within it,
have effected the way in which we live in present-day. It gives you wonderful insight of
the way the past effects modern present-time. There are many great accomplishments that
people achieved in the past and now you have the ability to easily navigate or search
through this CDbook and learn about them. Also
included within this CDbook is 144 questions and explanations that was also within the
original 1917 book.
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screen captures below. |
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links below are an excerpts from the CD: |
The Story in the Big Redwood Trees |
Below
is the Table of Contents contained within the CDbook:
Sorry if the font size seems small, but it was
determined to do so in order to fit all the CDbook's content information on this single
page, the font size within the CDbook is actually larger (as you're reading now). |
The Story of the Submarine
Origin of Submarine Navigation | The American Types | Twentieth Century Submarines |
Engine Power | The Periscope | Voyage of the "Deutschland" | Submarine
Dredging
The Story of the Panama Canal
Introduction | The United States to the Rescue | The Canal and the Navy | The Great Canal
| The Hydroelectric Station | Gigantic Obstacles | Gatun Dam | Meeting all Emergencies | A
Battle Won
The Story in the Talking Machine
The Early Machines | Invention of the Spring Motor | Change from Cylinder to Disc | Making
the Record
The Story of the Motorcycle
Austin's Steam Velocipede | Motor-paced Racing | First Practical Machine | Modern
Refinements | Side Cars and Commercial Bodies
The Story in a Watch
The Standard of Time | Candles as Time-Keepers | Galileo's Pendulum | Balance Wheel as a
Pendulum | The Time Train | How a Watch Works | What Causes Variation in Watches
The Story in a Rifle
The Earliest Hunters | The Use of Slings | A Fortunate Accident | As to Arrows | A
Shooting Machine | And Now for Chemistry | Playing with Fire | The Coming of the Matchlock
| Caps and Breech-Loaders | From Henry VIII to Cartridges | First Remington | The
Beginning of Precision in Mechanics | Making Barrels | Taking off 2/1000 of an Inch | The
Making of Ammunition Today | Handling Deadly Explosives | Extreme Precautions
The Story of Rubber
How was Rubber First Used? | What is a Rubber Camp Like? | How is Rubber Gathered by the
Natives? | How is Rubber Smoked? | How was Vulcanizing Discovered? | How did Rubber
Growing Spread to Other Places? | How is Rubber Cured on Modern Plantations? | How is
Crude Rubber Received Here? | How is Rubber Prepared for Use? | How are Rubber Shoes Made?
| How are Automobile Tires Made?
The Story of Rope
Civilized Rope Makers | Hand Spinning | Machine-made Ropes | American Hemp | Manila and
Sisal Fibers | Wire Ropes | Pine Tar for Ropes | Why does Rope Cling Together? | What is
Rope Used For?
The Story of Self-Loading Pistols
Colt Pistols | Machine Guns
The Story in Firecrackers and Sky-Rockets
The Need for Noisemakers | Chinese Firecrackers | Popular ever since the Invention of
Gunpowder | Beautiful Displays
The Story in the Making of a Picture
The Image is Upside Down | Effect of Light on the Film | Early Photographic Efforts |
Modern Photography
The Story in a Newspaper
Gutenberg's Press in "1450" | Cylinder Presses | Curved Plates | Printing,
Folding and Counting 216,000 Papers an Hour | Color Printing
The Story in a Honey Comb
Sixty Thousand Bees in a Hive | Modern Bee-Keeping | Profitable Anywhere
The Story of Electricity in the Home
A Modern Aladdin's Lamp | Electric Hot Irons the First Appliances | How They are Made |
Electric Cooking Appliances | Electric Toaster | Electric Coffee Percolator | Baking and
Roasting | Vacuum Cleaners
The Story in the Telephone
Invention | Essential Factor in American Life | America Leads in Telephone Growth |
American Telephone Practice Superior | The First Transcontinental Line | Wireless Speech
Transmission | The Mobilization of Communication
The Story in Elevators and Escalators
From Novelty to Necessity | The Escalator | The Cleat Escalator | The Moving Platform
The Story of Coal Mining
The World Depends on Coal | Dangers of Mining | How Coal Grew | The Vast Quantities
Produced
The Story in a Silver Teaspoon
The Spoon is Older than History | Development of Various Shapes | Plating Re-Discovered |
Electro-plating | Stages in Manufacture | Evolution of a Knife
Story of the Wireless Telegraph
Stretching a Dog | Marconi's Method | Tuning the Instruments | Interferences
The Story of the Building of a Silo
What is a Silo? | The First Silo | What is put in a Silo? | Elements of Success or Failure
The Story of the Advance of Electricity
The First Commercial Central Station | Edison and the Electric Light | Electricity a
Living Factor | In the Printing Trade | Construction | Loft Manufacturing | Electric
Heating | Electricity and Safety | Electricity in Medicine | Electric Vehicles |
Electricity and the Home | Decreased Cost of Electricity
The Story in the Making of a Magazine
Printing in Millions | Color Printing
The Story of America's First Horseless Carriage
The Problems of Weight and Vibration | The First Demonstration
The Story in a Sausage
The First "Roast Pig" | Smoking Ham | Salt Pork | The Era of Refrigeration | An
Up-to-date Packing Plant | Dressing Meat | By-Products
The Story of the Big Redwood Trees
Long Life of the Great Trees | Valuable Qualities of the Redwood | Fire Retardance |
Magnificent Tones for Decoration
The Story in a Billiard Table
An Ancient Game | Modern Manufacturers | The Cue is a Work of Art | The Finest Ivory for
Balls
The Story in a Pin
Once a Luxury of the Wealthy | Formerly made in Parts | Making 25,000,000,000 Pins a Year
Pictorial Story of the Fishing Industry
Episodes in the Game | Modern Fishing Vessels | The Trawl | Drawing the Net | Fish Curing
| Preparing for Market
The Story in a Box of California Oranges
Picked with Gloves | Grading | Shipped in Refrigerators
The Story of a Piece of Chewing Gum
Juice of the Chicle Tree | Treatment in the Factory
The Story of the Calculating Machine
How did Men Learn to Count? | The First Adding Machine | The Slide Rule Principle | The
"Difference Engine" | Present-Day Models | The Largest Adding Machine | How are
Adding Machines Used?
The Story in a Bowling Alley
Bowling Green, New York City | How the Alley is Built | Composition Balls
The Story of the Addressograph
Birth of Mechanical Addressing | The First Addressograph | Greater Speed | A Card Index
that Addresses Itself | Small Users not Overlooked | Its Place in Business
The Story in a Chemical Fire Extinguisher
Smothering Fire with a Gas Blanket | The Soda and Acid Extinguisher
The Story in Photo-Engraving
Pictures are the Universal Language | What a Halftone is | Line Engravings | Color
Engraving
The Story in a Giant Cannon
Origin of the Cannon | Modern Cannon | How Cannons are Now Made | Built-Up and Wire-Wound
Guns
Pictorial Story of the Steel Industry
Mining Ore | Open-Hearth Furnaces | Blast Furnaces | A 15,000 Ton Forge | Oil-Tempering |
Bending Armor Plate | Largest Steel Casting in the World | Casting Steel | Rolling Rails
The Story in the Making of a Pair of Shoes
Shoemaking by Machine | Cross-Section of a Shoe | Lasting Machine | Details of the Process
| Evolution of a Shoe
Pictorial Story of Fire Apparatus
Aerial Truck | Motor Fire Engine | Old-time Apparatus | Chemical Engine
Story of the Taking of Food from the Air
Nitrogen and Oxygen in the Air | Fixation of Nitrogen | Liquid Air | Fertilizer | Ammonia
The Story of a Deep-Sea Monster
A Thirty-nine Hour Battle | Five Harpoons and 151 Bullets Needed | An Unknown Leviathan
The Story of Salt
Natural Salt | The Polish Mines | Refining
The Story of the Growth of the Motor Truck
Practically Developed since 1905 | Cheaper Transportation
The Story of the Tunnels Under the Hudson River
Bold Engineering | 40,000 Men | How the Tunneling Shield Works | Air Pressure |
Extraordinary Adventures under the River
Pictorial Story of the Airship
Well-Known Aviators | Military Monoplane | NC-4 First Plane to Cross the Atlantic |
Vickers-Vimy, First Flier to make a Non-Stop Atlantic Flight | Chart of Transatlantic
Fliers | The Wright Brothers | British Transatlantic Dirigible, R-34 | Examples of
Military Use
The Story of an Automobile Factory
A Half-Million Cars a Year | Overhead Cranes Cut Costs | Safety First | One Thing at a
Time | Quick Assembling | The Body Chute | The Foundry | Motion Picture Advertising
Railroad Scenes From Shop and Road
All Steel Train | Electric Train | Train of 120 Cars | An Observation Car | Electric
Baggage Truck | Terminal Stations | Paint Drying Oven | Locomotive Building | Types of
Locomotives
The Story of an Up-To-Date Farm
Luxuries of Farm Life | Plenty of Food | Reaping Hook | The Cradle | Early Attempts to
Harvest with Machines | The First Successful Reaper | Development of the Reaper | The
Self-Binder | The Twine Binder | Other Machines Follow
The Story of the Motion-Picture Projecting Machine
Spectacular Rise of Motion Pictures | How the Projector Operates | Varied Uses of the
Pictures
The Story of Leather
Tanning | Oiling | Finishing Coats | Currying
The Story in Diamond-Cutting
Where Diamonds Come From | Famous Diamonds | Methods of Cutting | Defects in Diamonds |
Brilliancy
The Story in the Modern Lifting Magnet
What a Magnet is | How an Electric Magnet Works | Will Lift 30 Tons |
Below
is 55 of the 144 questions previously mentioned
and the explanations are also contained within the CDbook. |
1) How are Animals Identified on Cattle
Ranges?
2) How are Artificial Precious Stones Made?
3) How are Cocoanuts Used to Help our Warships?
4) How are Files Made?
5) How are Harbors Dredged Out?
6) How are Sand-Dunes Formed?
7) How are Glaciers Formed?
8) How are We Able to Hear Through Speaking Tubes?
9) How can We Hear through the Walls of a Room?
10) How Deep is the Deepest Part of the Ocean?
11) How did Nodding the Head Up and Down Come to Mean "Yes"?
12) How did the Cooking of Food Originate?
13) How did the Dollar Sign Oringate?
14) How did the Expression "A-1" Originate?
15) How did the Expression "Before you can say Jack Robinson" Originate?
16) How did the Expression "Forlorn Hope" Originate?
17) How did the Fashion of Wearing Cravats Commence?
18) How did the Greyhound get his Name?
19) How did the Ringing of Curfew Originate?
20) How did the term "Cowboys" Originate?
21) How did the Term "Yankee" Originate?
22) How did the Wearing of a Crown Originate?
23) How did Your State get its Name?
24) How do Big Buildings get their Granite?
25) How do Carrier Pigeons Carry Messages?
26) How do Chimes Strike the Hour?
27) How does a Bird Fly?
28) How does a Gasoline Motor Run an Electric Street Car?
29) How does a "Master Clock" Control others by Electricity?
30) How does a Monorail Gyroscope Railway Operate?
31) How does an Artesian Well Keep up its Supply of Water
32) How does a Siren Fog Horn Blow?
33) How does the Beach get its Sand?
34) How does the Gas Meter Measure Your Gas?
35) How does the New York Stock Exchange Operate?
36) How does the Poisonous Tarantula Live?
37) How do Fishes Swim?
38) How do Peanuts get in the Ground?
39) How do the Indians Live Now?
40) How do we Know that the Earth is Round?
41) How Far away is the Sky-Line?
42) How Far can a Powerful Searchlight Send its Rays?
43) How has Man Helped Nature give us Apples?
44) How is a Five Dollar Gold Piece Made?
45) How is a Razor Blade Made?
46) How is Die-Sinking Done?
47) How is Electricity Brought into a House?
48) How is Fresco Painting Done?
49) How is Glue Made?
50) How is Gold Leaf Made?
51) How is the Exact Color of the Sky Determined?
52) How is the Weather Man Able to Predict Tomorrow's Weather?
53) How Large are Molecules?
54) How Much Gold has a 14-Carat Ring?
55) Why Are They Called "Newspapers?" |
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