MEN OF ACHIEVEMENT - INVENTORS -- PREFACE. -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN -- CHAPTER II. ROBERT FULTON -- CHAPTER III. ELI WHITNEY -- CHAPTER IV. ELIAS HOWE -- CHAPTER V. SAMUEL F. B. MORSE -- CHAPTER VI. CHARLES GOODYEAR -- CHAPTER VII. JOHN ERICSSON -- CHAPTER VIII. CYRUS HALL McCORMICK -- CHAPTER IX. THOMAS A. EDISON -- CHAPTER X. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL -- CHAPTER XI. AMERICAN INVENTORS, PAST AND PRESENT -- James M. Townsend -- E. L. Drake -- Alvan Clark -- John Fitch -- Oliver Evans -- Amos Whittemore -- Thomas Blanchard -- Richard M. Hoe -- Thomas W. Harvey -- C. L. Sholes -- B. B. Hotchkiss -- Charles F. Brush -- Rudolph Eickemeyer -- George Westinghouse, Jr. -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FULL-PAGE -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN -- DEPARTURE OF THE CLERMONT ON HER FIRST VOYAGE -- CHARLES GOODYEAR -- JOHN ERICSSON -- CYRUS HALL McCORMICK -- THOMAS A. EDISON -- EDISON IN HIS LABORATORY -- PROFESSOR BELL SENDING THE FIRST TELEPHONE MESSAGE FROM NEW YORK TO CHICAGO -- ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT -- THE FRANKLIN STOVE -- FRANKLIN'S BIRTHPLACE , BOSTON -- FRANKLIN ENTERING PHILADELPHIA -- THE FRANKLIN PENNY -- FRANKLIN 'S GRAVE -- ROBERT FULTON -- BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT FULTON -- FULTON BLOWING UP A DANISH BRIG -- JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT AT PHILADELPHIA -- FULTON'S FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH PADDLE-WHEELS -- THE "DEMOLOGOS," OR "FULTON THE FIRST -- THE CLERMONT -- ELI WHITNEY -- WHITNEY WATCHING THE COTTON-GIN -- THE COTTON-GIN -- ELIAS HOWE -- BIRTHPLACE OF S. F. B. MORSE, BUILT 1775 -- S. F. B. MORSE -- UNDER SIDE OF A MODERN SWITCHBOARD, SHOWING 2,000 WIRES -- THE FIRST TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT, AS EXHIBITED IN 1837 BY MORSE -- THE MODERN MORSE TELEGRAPH -- MORSE MAKING HIS OWN INSTRUMENT -- TRAIN TELEGRAPH- THE MESSAGE TRANSMITTED BY INDUCTION FROM THE MOVING TRAIN TO THE SINGLE WIRE.

INTERIOR OF A CAR ON THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD SHOWING THE METHOD OF OPERATING THE TRAIN TELEGRAPH -- DIAGRAM SHOWING THE METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING FROM A MOVING TRAIN BY INDUCTION -- MORSE IN HIS STUDY -- THE SIPHON RECORDER FOR RECEIVING CABLE MESSAGES-OFFICE OF THE COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY, 1 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK -- No. 5 WEST TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK, WHERE MORSE LIVED FOR MANY YEARS AND DIED -- CALENDERS HEATED INTERNALLY BY STEAM, FOR SPREADING INDIA RUBBER INTO SHEETS OR UPON CLOTH, CALLED THE "CHAFFE MACHINE" -- CHARLES GOODYEAR'S EXHIBITION OF HARD INDIA-RUBBER GOODS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SYDENHAM, ENGLAND -- COUNCIL MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION, 1851, -- GRANDE MEDAILLE D' HONNEUR, EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE 1855, -- JOHN ERICSSON'S BIRTH PLACE AND MONUMENT -- THE NOVELTY LOCOMOTIVE, BUILT BY ERICSSON TO COMPETE WITH STEPHENSON'S ROCKET, 1829, -- ERICSSON ON HIS ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND, AGED TWENTY-THREE -- MRS. JOHN ERICSSON, NÉE AMELIA BYAM -- EXTERIOR VIEW OF ERICSSON'S HOUSE, No. 36 BEACH STREET, NEW YORK, 1890, -- SOLAR-ENGINE ADAPTED TO THE USE OF HOTAIR -- SECTIONAL VIEW OF MONITOR THROUGH TURRET AND PILOT-HOUSE -- THE ORIGINAL MONITOR -- FAC-SIMILE OF A PENCIL SKETCH BY ERICSSON, GIVING A TRANSVERSE SECTION OF HIS ORIGINAL MONITOR PLAN WITH A LONGITUDINAL SECT -- INTERIOR OF THE DESTROYER, LOOKING TOWARD THE BOW -- DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONITOR IDEA -- THE ROOM IN WHICH ERICSSON WORKED FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS -- FARM WHERE CYRUS H. MCCORMICK WAS BORN AND RAISED -- EXTERIOR OF THE BLACKSMITH SHOP WHERE THE FIRST REAPER WAS BUILT -- INTERIOR OF THE BLACKSMITH SHOP WHERE THE FIRST REAPER WAS BUILT -- THE FIRST REAPER -- EDISON'S PAPER CARBON LAMP -- EDISON LISTENING TO HIS PHONOGRAPH -- FROM EDISON'S NEWSPAPER, THE "GRAND TRUNK HERALD" -- EDISON' S TINFOIL PHONOGRAPH-THE FIRST PRACTICAL MACHINE.

VOTE RECORDER-EDISON' S FIRST PATENTED I NVENTION -- EDISON' S MENLO PARK ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE (1880) -- THE HOME OF THOMAS A . EDISON -- EDISON'S LABORATORY -- LIBRARY AT EDISON'S LABORATORY -- ALVAN CLARK -- C. L. SHOLES -- B. B. HOTCHKISS -- CHARLES F. BRUSH -- RUDOLPH EICKEMEYER -- GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE , JR.,.