Archibald Williams

This is a volume of exploration into the newest inventions of the turn of the previous century. Journalist Archibald Williams walks the read…

In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very d…

As it would be impossible to treat, in the compass of a few hundred pages, all the great engineering feats of modern times without reducing …

Any writer on mining in its general aspect is, when casting about for a starting-point, driven to express what others have said before him-t…

It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…

The Author has been encouraged by the reception given to The Romance of Modern Exploration to write a companion volume on the adventures of …

In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the …