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 頁 |
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... Work , especially in the selection and arrangement of the engravings , and for the useful information embod- ied in the glossary . UNION COLLEGE , October , 1840 . CONTENTS . PREFACE , PART I. Introduction , CHAPTER I. 4 ADVERTISEMENT .
... Work , especially in the selection and arrangement of the engravings , and for the useful information embod- ied in the glossary . UNION COLLEGE , October , 1840 . CONTENTS . PREFACE , PART I. Introduction , CHAPTER I. 4 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... Engraving , & c . 213 Dixon's Transfer Process , 228 CHAPTER XIII . Locomotion , 230 CHAPTER XIV . The Progress of the Arts , . 246 CHAPTER XV . Influence of the Useful Arts on National Welfare , 260 APPENDIX . I. Nature and Objects of ...
... Engraving , & c . 213 Dixon's Transfer Process , 228 CHAPTER XIII . Locomotion , 230 CHAPTER XIV . The Progress of the Arts , . 246 CHAPTER XV . Influence of the Useful Arts on National Welfare , 260 APPENDIX . I. Nature and Objects of ...
第 8 頁
... Engraving by Galvanic Electricity , .. Ancient Rate of Travelling , IX . X. Influence of Improvements on Human Welfare , XI . Ancient and Modern Philosophy compared , XII . Technological Instruction , · Note on the Cotton Manufacture ...
... Engraving by Galvanic Electricity , .. Ancient Rate of Travelling , IX . X. Influence of Improvements on Human Welfare , XI . Ancient and Modern Philosophy compared , XII . Technological Instruction , · Note on the Cotton Manufacture ...
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... engraved in relief , about three feet long , and from two to five inches broad , are successively brought to bear on three of the four faces of a prismatic roller of iron , round which the cloth is successively wound . Each block rests ...
... engraved in relief , about three feet long , and from two to five inches broad , are successively brought to bear on three of the four faces of a prismatic roller of iron , round which the cloth is successively wound . Each block rests ...
第 167 頁
... engraved on it to the relatively softer copper . " The engraved cylinders are mounted upon a strong iron shaft , or arbor , carrying a toothed wheel at its end , in order to put it in train with the rotary printing ma- chine , for one ...
... engraved on it to the relatively softer copper . " The engraved cylinders are mounted upon a strong iron shaft , or arbor , carrying a toothed wheel at its end , in order to put it in train with the rotary printing ma- chine , for one ...
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第 275 頁 - 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.
第 394 頁 - 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...
第 346 頁 - ... 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.
第 350 頁 - 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...
第 394 頁 - 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...
第 393 頁 - 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.
第 362 頁 - ... 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.
第 27 頁 - 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...