One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix Entitled Marvels that Our Grandchildren Will See ; Or, One Hundred Years' Progress in the Future ... |
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... INCREASE OF POPULATION , WEALTH , GROWTH OF CITIES , AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY , DEDUCED FROM FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE PAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS , WITH REMARKS ON THE PROSPECTIVE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATIVE ...
... INCREASE OF POPULATION , WEALTH , GROWTH OF CITIES , AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY , DEDUCED FROM FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE PAST ONE HUNDRED YEARS , WITH REMARKS ON THE PROSPECTIVE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATIVE ...
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... Increase of Cotton from 1820 to 1830 ..... 114 American Manufactures .. 142 Prices of Cotton decline ...... 114 Table of Tonnage , Exports and Imports , Decline in Shipping Tonnage of Charleston .. 114 from 1808 to 1820 ...... 142 Rice ...
... Increase of Cotton from 1820 to 1830 ..... 114 American Manufactures .. 142 Prices of Cotton decline ...... 114 Table of Tonnage , Exports and Imports , Decline in Shipping Tonnage of Charleston .. 114 from 1808 to 1820 ...... 142 Rice ...
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... Increase of Steam Tonnage on the Western Rivers from 1842 to 1860 .... Ground broken for the Erie Canal . ...... 183 184 Early Canal Projects ..... 185 164 Loss of Water in Canals by leakage . Transportation from Buffalo to New York ...
... Increase of Steam Tonnage on the Western Rivers from 1842 to 1860 .... Ground broken for the Erie Canal . ...... 183 184 Early Canal Projects ..... 185 164 Loss of Water in Canals by leakage . Transportation from Buffalo to New York ...
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... increased by an increase of speed , since far less expenditure of strength , and to reap the friction is not increased , but remains larger crops as the result , while the original nearly the same on the bottom of the fur- cost of the ...
... increased by an increase of speed , since far less expenditure of strength , and to reap the friction is not increased , but remains larger crops as the result , while the original nearly the same on the bottom of the fur- cost of the ...
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... increased facilities it will give for developing the resources of the west , through whose almost boundless prai ... increase the area of his cultivated fields , with a certainty of being able to gather in his whole crop . The sickle ...
... increased facilities it will give for developing the resources of the west , through whose almost boundless prai ... increase the area of his cultivated fields , with a certainty of being able to gather in his whole crop . The sickle ...
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Page 415 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch — In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt!
Page 85 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 24 - It will not be doubted that, with reference to either individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.
Page 31 - Such was the condition of things with regard to this, and most other farm implements, at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, or till within the last forty or fifty years.
Page 38 - They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third.
Page 141 - The whole interior of the Southern States was languishing and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion. From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off. Our capitals...
Page 322 - ... liquor too strongly charged with the tanning principle, being invariably injurious to the life and color of the leather. From this, it would seem that time is an essential element in the process of tanning, and that we cannot make up for the want of it by increasing the strength of the liquor, or raising the temperature at which the process is conducted any more than we can fatten an ox or a horse by giving him more than he can eat.
Page 36 - This American machine literally devoured the sheaves of wheat. The eye cannot follow the work which is effected between the entrance of the sheaves and the end of the operation. It is one of the greatest results which it is possible to attain. The impression which the spectacle produced on the Arab chiefs was profound.
Page 100 - Ibs. of bone dust is sufficient to supply three crops of wheat, clover, potatoes, turnips, &c., with phosphates. But the form in which they are restored to a soil does not appear to be a matter of indifference. For the more finely the bones are reduced to powder, and the more intimately they are mixed with the soil, the more easily are they assimilated.
Page 35 - The successful competitor on this occasion," says a French journal, "did its work in the most exquisite manner, not leaving a single stalk ungathered, and it discharged the grain in the most perfect shape, as if placed by hand for the binders. It finished its piece most gloriously.