Nature's Teachings
Human Invention Anticipated by Nature

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I. Nautical:
1. The raft
2. The oar, the paddle and the screw
3. Subsidiary appliances
4. Subsidiary appliances (continued)
5. Subsidiary appliances (continued)
Part II. War and hunting:
1. The pitfall, the club, the sword, the spear and the dagger
2. Poison, animal and vegetable
3. Projectile weapons and the sheath
4. The net, etc.
5. Reverted spikes and their modifications, etc.
6. The hook, defensive armour, the fort
7. Scaling instruments, defence of fort, imitation, the fall-trap
8. Concealment, disguise, the trench, power of gravity, miscellanea
Part III. Architecture:
1. Hut, tropic and polar
2. Walls, double and single
3. The window
4. Lighthouses
Part IV. Tools:
1. The digging-stick
2. The saw and its varieties
3. Boring tools
4. Polishing tools
Part V. Optics:
1. The missions of history
2. The water-telescope
Part VI. Useful arts:
1. Primitive man and his needs
2. Crushing instruments
3. Cloth-dressing
4. The stopper
5. The principle of the spring
6. Spiral and ringed tissues
7. Food and comfort
8. Domestic comfort
9. Artificial warmth
10. Water, and means of procuring it
11. Aerostatics
12. The cassava press etc.
12. Telescopic tubes
14. Paper and its many uses
15. Electricity
16. Tillage
17. Oscillation
Part VII. Acoustics:
1. Percussion.

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