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 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 72
الصفحة 11
... mixed nature , being both useful and ornamental . To practise the fine arts , perfection , requires genius . Excellence in the useful arts is more the result of imitation . X a machine or a method , some wellknown law . INTRODUCTION . 11.
... mixed nature , being both useful and ornamental . To practise the fine arts , perfection , requires genius . Excellence in the useful arts is more the result of imitation . X a machine or a method , some wellknown law . INTRODUCTION . 11.
الصفحة 12
... machine or a method , some wellknown law . Thus it appears , that , though the useful arts may precede science , at first , they will subsequently follow and be guided by its light . In whatever proportion the discov- eries of ...
... machine or a method , some wellknown law . Thus it appears , that , though the useful arts may precede science , at first , they will subsequently follow and be guided by its light . In whatever proportion the discov- eries of ...
الصفحة 17
... , to litigate contracts made between mechanics and their employers , or to try causes involving the operations of a machine or the management of a factory . Can he hope to do justice to his clients or to his 2 * INTRODUCTION . 17.
... , to litigate contracts made between mechanics and their employers , or to try causes involving the operations of a machine or the management of a factory . Can he hope to do justice to his clients or to his 2 * INTRODUCTION . 17.
الصفحة 23
... machines is less intricate than that of a limb , it is not to be doubted , that the uninstructed ar- tisan will succeed more frequently than the uninstruct- ed surgeon . But instances will often occur , in which both must fail . The ...
... machines is less intricate than that of a limb , it is not to be doubted , that the uninstructed ar- tisan will succeed more frequently than the uninstruct- ed surgeon . But instances will often occur , in which both must fail . The ...
الصفحة 31
... machine to mul- tiply force and velocity at the same time ? How many monuments of the ignorance of their projectors do we find in the models of a patent - office , and indeed in many of the undertakings of common life ! One man attempts ...
... machine to mul- tiply force and velocity at the same time ? How many monuments of the ignorance of their projectors do we find in the models of a patent - office , and indeed in many of the undertakings of common life ! One man attempts ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acid affinity agents agriculture alkali animal applied arts bleaching body called carbonic acid chemical chlorine clay cloth Colchester color combined compound copies copper cotton crops cultivation cylinder earth Eddystone lighthouse effect elective affinity employed enable engine England English engraved equal exert farmer fibres fluid force glass gravity greater hand heat Hence human humic acid hundred husbandry important improvement inclined plane increased industry invention iron Julius Cæsar knowledge labor land laws less lime liquid machine machinery manufacture manure materials means mechanical mechanical philosophy ment metal millions motion mould moving Nature object operation oxygen philosophy piston plants plate pounds present pressure principles printing produce proportion quantity raised rendered rollers salt Scotland side soil solid specific gravity spinning steam stone substances sulphuric acid surface thousand thread tion ture turnips vegetable velocity vessel weaving weft weight wheel wire
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...