Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures1836 - 448 sider |
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Side 10
... shafts and wheels of his mill whirling in his mind with the complexity of Ezekiel's vision , he dreamed of the absence of an essential band upon one of the wheels . The dream was fresh in his mind on the following morning , and ...
... shafts and wheels of his mill whirling in his mind with the complexity of Ezekiel's vision , he dreamed of the absence of an essential band upon one of the wheels . The dream was fresh in his mind on the following morning , and ...
Side 138
... shaft of perhaps several tons weight , and never has reason to repent his pre- ference , because he infuses into the turning apparatus a precision of action , equal , if not superior , to the skill of the most experienced journeyman ...
... shaft of perhaps several tons weight , and never has reason to repent his pre- ference , because he infuses into the turning apparatus a precision of action , equal , if not superior , to the skill of the most experienced journeyman ...
Side 141
... shafts of the satirist , the philosopher has conferred on the moralist an obligation of surpassing weight . In unveiling to him the living miracles which teem in rich exuberance around the minutest atom , as well as throughout the ...
... shafts of the satirist , the philosopher has conferred on the moralist an obligation of surpassing weight . In unveiling to him the living miracles which teem in rich exuberance around the minutest atom , as well as throughout the ...
Side 226
... shaft , of this wheel in the usual mode of structure , it is made circular and hollow , of a great number of pieces , hooped together like a cask ; the shaft is between five and six feet in diameter . The other two , which are used when ...
... shaft , of this wheel in the usual mode of structure , it is made circular and hollow , of a great number of pieces , hooped together like a cask ; the shaft is between five and six feet in diameter . The other two , which are used when ...
Side 307
... shafts would be quite sufficient for driving all the machinery contained in a mill of this length . The cotton and ... shaft ; and when this is known , the principle upon which to pro- ceed in tracing out the speed per minute of all ...
... shafts would be quite sufficient for driving all the machinery contained in a mill of this length . The cotton and ... shaft ; and when this is known , the principle upon which to pro- ceed in tracing out the speed per minute of all ...
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Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures George Savage White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures George Savage White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures George Savage White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
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Side 274 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Side 176 - In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Department of the Interior of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
Side 140 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South...
Side 140 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Side 274 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufacture and a natural history of the country...
Side 141 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Side 29 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble...
Side 195 - We have experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations: that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.
Side 176 - President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity...
Side 239 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.