The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the...
The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Genera...
The Gibbon Controversy began in 1776 with the publication of the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and has continued to the present. The present comprehensive account of the controversy reveals that it has been of larger proportions than has generally been known. Originally published in 1933.
The Gibbon Controversy began in 1776 with the publication of the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and has conti...
