The Principles of Science Applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts: And to Manufactures and Agriculture: with Reflections on the Progress of the Arts, and Their Influence on National WelfareMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1841 - 432 páginas |
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... considered with reference merely to his physi- cal powers , seems , in many respects , inferior to other animals . With less strength and hardihood than some of them , he has , at the same time , less fleetness and agility than others ...
... considered with reference merely to his physi- cal powers , seems , in many respects , inferior to other animals . With less strength and hardihood than some of them , he has , at the same time , less fleetness and agility than others ...
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... Considered the three fundamental laws of motion , we now proceed to the forces , which may be employed to produce motion . They are of two kinds , animate and inanimate . ANIMATE FORCES . The animate forces consist of the strength of ...
... Considered the three fundamental laws of motion , we now proceed to the forces , which may be employed to produce motion . They are of two kinds , animate and inanimate . ANIMATE FORCES . The animate forces consist of the strength of ...
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... considered was employed by the Greeks and Ro- mans , in the days of their greatest civilization and re- nown . They had neither waterwheels , * windmills , nor airpumps . To procure bread for his family , a Greek had no flour - mills ...
... considered was employed by the Greeks and Ro- mans , in the days of their greatest civilization and re- nown . They had neither waterwheels , * windmills , nor airpumps . To procure bread for his family , a Greek had no flour - mills ...
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... considered , act through spaces so limited , that they can * Another remarkable exception to this law is found in freezing water . When near the freezing point , water does not contract , as we should expect , from the increase of cold ...
... considered , act through spaces so limited , that they can * Another remarkable exception to this law is found in freezing water . When near the freezing point , water does not contract , as we should expect , from the increase of cold ...
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... Considered in its application to husbandry , the cottager looks forth upon the neat pal- ing which fences his dwelling ; it was sawed by steam . The spade with which he digs his garden , the rake , the hoe , the pick - axe , the scythe ...
... Considered in its application to husbandry , the cottager looks forth upon the neat pal- ing which fences his dwelling ; it was sawed by steam . The spade with which he digs his garden , the rake , the hoe , the pick - axe , the scythe ...
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Página 275 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Página 394 - It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended the range of the K/man vision; it has multiplied the power of the human...
Página 346 - ... as well lodged as the lord of the town : so well were they contented. Pillows, they said, were thought meet only for women in childbed : as for servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well : for seldom had they any under their bodies, to keep them from the pricking straws, that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Página 350 - C two hundred thousand people begging from door to door^ These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of...
Página 394 - The business of a philosopher was to declaim in praise of poverty, with two millions sterling out at usury, to meditate epigrammatic conceits about the evils of luxury, in gardens which moved the envy of sovereigns, to rant about liberty, while fawning on the insolent and pampered...
Página 393 - Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories ; in attempts to solve insoluble enigmas j in exhortations to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind.
Página 362 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed.
Página 27 - In 1826, a steam-loom weaver, about 15 years of age, attending to two looms, could weave twelve similar pieces in a week; some could weave fifteen pieces. In 1833, a steam-loom weaver, from...