His Life and Inventions

CHAPTER VI Frederick Koenig:
Inventor of the Steam-printing Machine

CHAPTER VII The Walters of 'The Times':
Inventor of the Walter Press

CHAPTER VIII William Clowes:
Book-printing by Steam

CHAPTER IX Charles Bianconi:
A lession of Self-Help in Ireland

CHAPTER X Industry in Ireland:
Through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast

CHAPTER XI Shipbuilding in Belfast:
By Sir E. J. Harland, Engineer and Shipbuilder

CHAPTER XII Astronomers and students in humble life:
A new Chapter in the 'Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties'


PREFACE

I offer this book as a continuation of the memoirs of men of
invention and industry published some years ago in the 'Lives of
Engineers,' 'Industrial Biography,' and 'Self-Help.'