Appletons Annual Cyclopedia And Register Of Important Events Of The Year 1888 Vol 13 PDF Download

Excerpt from Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1883, Vol. 23: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry IN the present volume of the annual cyclopaedia, the eighth of the New Series, some improvements have been introduced which it is hoped will add to its attractiveness and usefulness. The subjects treated have been subdivided with unusual care, and the use of full-face type for the heads and sub-heads brings them out more distinctly, and renders it easier for the reader to turn at once to the exact piece of information which he seeks. Increased attention has been given to illustration. The accounts of the wars in Egypt and Tonquin are each accompanied by a full-page map; another full-page map exhibits the annual rainfall in every part of the United States, and a colored map shows the new time-system recently adopted; there is a large View of the Cantilever Bridge at Niagara, one of the German National Monument on the N iederwald, and one Of the new Capitol at Albany; the improvements in the use of gas and electricity are fully illustrated; and some strange and important discoveries in the aberration of sound as used for fog-signals are represented by curious dia grams. Portraits Of the new Archbishop Of Canterbury, Speaker Carlisle, Peter Cooper, Gustave Dore, General Gordon, Hicks Pasha, Mario the singer, General Sheridan, Alexander H. Stephens, Wagner the composer, and other celebrities, appear in their proper places. The report Of the proceedings of Congress has been made unusually full, as a means of ready reference to several subjects Of national interest which will be discussed in the Presidential canvass of 1884. A brief summary of the events of the year, in chronological order, is a new feature, serving to refresh the reader's memory as to numerous occurrences which could not be treated at length in a work like this. The paper on the Composition and Nutritive Value of Foods, and that on the United States Fish Commission, with instructions for the propagation and preservation of fish, will be found especially instructive and practical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.