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Wash. DC: Smithsonian, c. 1938. Hardcover. The spine is darkened and the gold is almost gone from the spine, leaving the lettering just legible. Otherwise ther is very minor wear on the clean and sound binding. The endpapers, margins of the plates and the pages facing the plates are lightly to moderately foxed; the illustrations, themselves, are clean. The text pages are age-yellowed. No DJ. ; Maroon cloth with extensive gold tooling on the front cover. 2-page fold-out, full-color frontispiece. Index. 123 plates (b/w photos) . Occasional drawings in text. SCIENCE. Explains the operation, in their simpler forms, of a few inventions, conceived mainly in the 19th and 20th centureies, which have had the very greatest influence on our lives. The author has dwelt little on the history of the invention, but as tried to explain, without forbidding technicality, the operating principles, showing by lettered diagrams and descriptions how they work. This book is not for experts; it is only for those who wuld like to get just a little better understanding of how such things as radio differ from out-and-out miracles. ; 9-1/4"Tall; 383 pages. G+ .

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