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"A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins" is one of the best-known works by the German scientific author Johann Beckmann in which he relates the origin, history and recent condition of the various machines, utensils, etc., employed in trade and for domestic purposes. This work entitles Beckmann to be regarded as the founder of scientific technology, a term which he was the first to use in 1772._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Italian Book-keeping_x000D_ Odometer_x000D_ Machine for noting down Music_x000D_ Refining Gold and Silver Ore by Quicksilver_x000D_ Cold or Dry Gilding_x000D_ Gold Varnish_x000D_ Tulips_x000D_ Canary Bird_x000D_ Archil_x000D_ Magnetic Cures_x000D_ Secret Poison_x000D_ Wooden Bellows_x000D_ Coaches_x000D_ Water-clocks, Clepsydras_x000D_ Tourmaline_x000D_ Speaking-trumpet_x000D_ Ananas, Pine-apple_x000D_ Sympathetic Ink_x000D_ Diving-bell_x000D_ Coloured Glass, Artificial Gems_x000D_ Sealing-wax_x000D_ Corn-mills_x000D_ Verdigris, or Spanish Green_x000D_ Saffron_x000D_ Alum_x000D_ Falconry_x000D_ Turf_x000D_ Artichoke_x000D_ Saw-mills_x000D_ Stamped Paper_x000D_ Insurance_x000D_ Adulteration of Wine_x000D_ Artificial Pearls_x000D_ Paving of Streets_x000D_ Collections of Natural Curiosities_x000D_ Chimneys_x000D_ Hungary Water_x000D_ Cork_x000D_ Apothecaries_x000D_ Clocks and Watches_x000D_ Quarantine_x000D_ Paper-hangings_x000D_ Kermes, Cochineal_x000D_ Writing-pens_x000D_ Wire-drawing_x000D_ Buck-wheat_x000D_ Saddles_x000D_ Stirrups_x000D_ Horse-shoes_x000D_ Floating of Wood_x000D_ Lace_x000D_ Ultramarine_x000D_ Cobalt, Zaffer, Smalt_x000D_ Turkeys_x000D_ Butter_x000D_ Aurum Fulminans_x000D_ Garden-flowers_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ The Steam-Engine, and Discoveries of J. Watt_x000D_ Lending and Pawnbroking_x000D_ Chemical Names of Metals_x000D_ Zinc_x000D_ Carp_x000D_ Camp-mills_x000D_ Mirrors_x000D_ Glass-cutting, Etching on Glass_x000D_ Soap_x000D_ Madder_x000D_ Jugglers, Rope-dancers, Automata…_x000D_ Artificial Ice. Cooling Liquors_x000D_ Hydrometer_x000D_ Lighting of Streets_x000D_ Night-watch_x000D_ Plant-skeletons_x000D_ Bills of Exchange_x000D_ Tin. Tinning_x000D_ Sowing-machines_x000D_ Manganese_x000D_ Prince Rupert's Drops, Lacrymæ Vitreæ_x000D_ Fire-engines_x000D_ Indigo_x000D_ Vanes, Weathercocks_x000D_ Gilding_x000D_ Fur Dresses_x000D_ Steel_x000D_ Stamping-works_x000D_ Kitchen Vegetables_x000D_ Knitting Nets and Stockings, Stocking-Loom_x000D_ Hops_x000D_ Black Lead_x000D_ Sal-Ammoniac_x000D_ Forks_x000D_ Lottery, Tontine_x000D_ Bologna Stone_x000D_ Foundling Hospitals_x000D_ Orphan Houses_x000D_ Infirmaries, Hospitals for Invalids, Field Lazarettos_x000D_ Cock-fighting_x000D_ Saltpetre, Gunpowder, Aquafortis_x000D_ Book-censors_x000D_ Exclusive Privilege for Printing Books_x000D_ Catalogues of Books_x000D_ Ribbon-Loom_x000D_ Guns, Gun-Locks
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