Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... printing - press , and its application to the production of newspapers and books - an invention certainly of great importance to the spread of knowledge , science , and literature throughout the world . The chapter on the " Industry of ...
... printing - press , and its application to the production of newspapers and books - an invention certainly of great importance to the spread of knowledge , science , and literature throughout the world . The chapter on the " Industry of ...
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... printing Machine .. 153 · VII . THE WALTERS OF " THE TIMES ; " Invention of the Walter Press 180 VIII . WILLIAM CLOWES : Book - printing by Steam IX . CHARLES BIANCONI : A Lesson of Self - Help in Irc- 205 • land . 217 X. INDUSTRY IN ...
... printing Machine .. 153 · VII . THE WALTERS OF " THE TIMES ; " Invention of the Walter Press 180 VIII . WILLIAM CLOWES : Book - printing by Steam IX . CHARLES BIANCONI : A Lesson of Self - Help in Irc- 205 • land . 217 X. INDUSTRY IN ...
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... printing , the needle , etc. , were discovered within the memory of history . " If this were true in Newton's time , how much truer is it now . Most of the inventions which are so greatly influencing , as well as advancing , the ...
... printing , the needle , etc. , were discovered within the memory of history . " If this were true in Newton's time , how much truer is it now . Most of the inventions which are so greatly influencing , as well as advancing , the ...
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... printed . Lead was formed by him into printer's type , for the communication of knowl- edge without end . But the most extraordinary changes of all were made in a heavy stone containing metal , dug out of the ground . With this , when ...
... printed . Lead was formed by him into printer's type , for the communication of knowl- edge without end . But the most extraordinary changes of all were made in a heavy stone containing metal , dug out of the ground . With this , when ...
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... prints that you have been presiding at a meeting intended to do honor to the memory of William Murdock — a most worthy man and an old friend of mine . When he found me working the first slide - valve ever introduced into an engine ...
... prints that you have been presiding at a meeting intended to do honor to the memory of William Murdock — a most worthy man and an old friend of mine . When he found me working the first slide - valve ever introduced into an engine ...
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Página 205 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Página 98 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...