The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 |
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... mechanical employments , they must work a most beneficial change in the general structure of society . The arts of life are now so various and import- ant , so intimately connected with national prosperity , and individual comfort ...
... mechanical employments , they must work a most beneficial change in the general structure of society . The arts of life are now so various and import- ant , so intimately connected with national prosperity , and individual comfort ...
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... mechanical labour , from the perpetual competition arising from an increasing population , has a natural tendency to descend in the scale of compensation . But this effect is astonishingly increased , by the constant application of ...
... mechanical labour , from the perpetual competition arising from an increasing population , has a natural tendency to descend in the scale of compensation . But this effect is astonishingly increased , by the constant application of ...
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... mechanical science , half their labours would have been saved . Sure I am , that one of them would not , with his later acquirements in science , have laid aside for a long time the creation of his own genius , as if in despair , that ...
... mechanical science , half their labours would have been saved . Sure I am , that one of them would not , with his later acquirements in science , have laid aside for a long time the creation of his own genius , as if in despair , that ...
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... circumferences of circles are in proportion to their diameters , lies at the found- ation of most of the operations of practical mechanics , and 1 has led to the means of increasing mechanical power 3 * STORY'S DISCOURSE . 29.
... circumferences of circles are in proportion to their diameters , lies at the found- ation of most of the operations of practical mechanics , and 1 has led to the means of increasing mechanical power 3 * STORY'S DISCOURSE . 29.
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1 has led to the means of increasing mechanical power to an almost incalculable extent . The lever , the pulley , and the wheel , are but illustrations of it . So , too , the habit of nice observation of facts , ( the almost constant ...
1 has led to the means of increasing mechanical power to an almost incalculable extent . The lever , the pulley , and the wheel , are but illustrations of it . So , too , the habit of nice observation of facts , ( the almost constant ...
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