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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... manufacture , and uses , with reference to its influence upon the industry of the country , in its application to manufactures . By J. C. MERRIAM , Editor and Proprietor of the " American Engineer . " COMMERCE AND TRADE , Colonial Trade ...
... manufacture , and uses , with reference to its influence upon the industry of the country , in its application to manufactures . By J. C. MERRIAM , Editor and Proprietor of the " American Engineer . " COMMERCE AND TRADE , Colonial Trade ...
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... Manufactures ..... 133 Labor in Comparison with Europe .. 105 The Colonies forbidden to Manufacture .... 133 Cotton great Export Article .... 106 Report of Parliamentary Committee on Co- Trade with Brazil ..... 107 lonial Manufactures ...
... Manufactures ..... 133 Labor in Comparison with Europe .. 105 The Colonies forbidden to Manufacture .... 133 Cotton great Export Article .... 106 Report of Parliamentary Committee on Co- Trade with Brazil ..... 107 lonial Manufactures ...
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... MANUFACTURE , PRINTING , 370 INDIA - RUBBER AND ITS MANUFACTURE . 377 SEWING. Total receipts from New York Canals .... EARLY RAILROADS , LAND GRANTS , & c ..... First Railroad in the United States .. Massachusetts Western Railroad ...
... MANUFACTURE , PRINTING , 370 INDIA - RUBBER AND ITS MANUFACTURE . 377 SEWING. Total receipts from New York Canals .... EARLY RAILROADS , LAND GRANTS , & c ..... First Railroad in the United States .. Massachusetts Western Railroad ...
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... MANUFACTURE . Colt's Fire - Arms at the World's Fair .... 331 Colt's Manufactory .. 332 MATERIALS - PROGRESS ... MANUFACTURE .. 295 Large Gun for Harbor Defence . 337 Fourdrinier Machine .... 295 The Floyd Gun .... 337 Names and ...
... MANUFACTURE . Colt's Fire - Arms at the World's Fair .... 331 Colt's Manufactory .. 332 MATERIALS - PROGRESS ... MANUFACTURE .. 295 Large Gun for Harbor Defence . 337 Fourdrinier Machine .... 295 The Floyd Gun .... 337 Names and ...
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... MANUFACTURE . 377 SEWING MACHINES ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE . PAGE 1 , On. PAGE PAGE Lumber Business ... 356 Annual Value of Candies 392 Machinery used in Building .... 357 SILK . ......... . 393 Lumber Trade East , West and South ...
... MANUFACTURE . 377 SEWING MACHINES ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE . PAGE 1 , On. PAGE PAGE Lumber Business ... 356 Annual Value of Candies 392 Machinery used in Building .... 357 SILK . ......... . 393 Lumber Trade East , West and South ...
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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.