Inventions in the CenturyLinscott publishing Company, 1903 - 495 páginas |
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... appear . The Boke of Hus- bandrie , in 1523 , by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert ; Thomas Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ; Barnaby Googe's The Whole Art of Husbandry ; The Jewel House of Art and Nat- ure , by Sir Hugh Platt ...
... appear . The Boke of Hus- bandrie , in 1523 , by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert ; Thomas Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry ; Barnaby Googe's The Whole Art of Husbandry ; The Jewel House of Art and Nat- ure , by Sir Hugh Platt ...
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... appear to have originated in Holland in the last cen- tury , and from there were made known to England . James Small of Scotland wrote of and made ploughs having a cast - iron mould board and cast and wrought iron shares in 1784--85 ...
... appear to have originated in Holland in the last cen- tury , and from there were made known to England . James Small of Scotland wrote of and made ploughs having a cast - iron mould board and cast and wrought iron shares in 1784--85 ...
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... appear in the vales below . The leading discoveries of the century which have done so much to aid Chemistry in its giant strides are the atomic and molecular theories , the mechanics of light , heat , and electricity , the correlation ...
... appear in the vales below . The leading discoveries of the century which have done so much to aid Chemistry in its giant strides are the atomic and molecular theories , the mechanics of light , heat , and electricity , the correlation ...
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... essentially al- tered the face of affairs , and that no visible limit yet appears beyond which its progress is seen to be im- possible . " CHAPTER VIII . ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORTATION . THE field of 92 INVENTIONS IN THE CENTURY .
... essentially al- tered the face of affairs , and that no visible limit yet appears beyond which its progress is seen to be im- possible . " CHAPTER VIII . ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORTATION . THE field of 92 INVENTIONS IN THE CENTURY .
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... appears to be as unknown as it was in 1800 . Franklin in the eighteenth century defined elec- tricity as consisting of particles of matter incompa- rably more subtle than air , and which pervaded all bodies . At the close of the ...
... appears to be as unknown as it was in 1800 . Franklin in the eighteenth century defined elec- tricity as consisting of particles of matter incompa- rably more subtle than air , and which pervaded all bodies . At the close of the ...
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Página 447 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad...
Página 329 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 19 - Behold, a sower went forth to sow ; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up : some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : and when the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns ; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them : but other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold,...
Página 7 - ... of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind.
Página 76 - This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time and space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings.
Página 76 - Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert, affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man,...
Página 87 - It is on the rivers, and the boatman may repose on his oars; it is on highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of land conveyance; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet below the earth's surface; it is in the mill, and in the workshops of the trades. It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. It...
Página 87 - Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas; and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship, " Against the wind, against the tide, Still steadies, with an upright keel.
Página 4 - ... the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures, which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use...
Página 304 - Man is a Tool-using Animal (Handthierendes Thier). Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most for the flattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain...