The Chronicles of America Series: The age of inventionYale University Press, 1921 |
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American appears became began beginning Benjamin better boat born brothers brought built called carried CHAPTER Charles cloth cotton designed discovery dollars early Edison electricity engine England Evans experiments fact factory farm father flying followed four Franklin Fulton give Goodyear hand Henry hundred idea important improved industry interest invention inventor Italy James John labor land later learned less light lived London Lowell machine machinery manufacture means mechanical ment miles mills mind Morse moved nature never original patent Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced Quaker received Robert rubber Samuel says seemed seen sewing soon South steam steam engine Stevens story success telegraph thousand tion took turn United Washington Whitney whole wings wire York young
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Seite 234 - The wonder was not that he had done so little but that he had accomplished so much. It would not be considered at all safe for a bicycle rider to attempt to ride through a crowded city street after only five hours...
Seite 16 - House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the present, and tho' they did not much like treating out of the provinces; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June. In our way thither, I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defense and other important general purposes.
Seite 93 - The rooms in which they worked, were as well ordered as themselves. In the windows of some , there were green plants, which were trained to shade the glass; in all, there was as much fresh air, cleanliness, and comfort, as the nature of the occupation would possibly admit of.
Seite 179 - Whitney ville, near New Haven; and it was there that he worked out another achievement quite as important economically as the cotton gin, even though the immediate consequences were less spectacular: namely, the principle of standardization or interchangeability in manufacture. This principle is the very foundation today of all American large-scale production. The manufacturer produces separately thousands of copies of every part of a complicated machine, confident that an equal number of the complete...
Seite 36 - There were a number of very respectable Gentlemen at Mrs. Greene's who all agreed that if a machine could be invented which would clean the cotton with expedition, it would be a great thing both to the Country and to the inventor. I involuntarily happened to be thinking on the subject and struck out a plan of a Machine in my mind, which I communicated to Miller, (who is agent to the Executors of Genl.
Seite 109 - The machinery of production showed no radical difference from that familiar to ages long past. The Saxon farmer of the eighth century enjoyed most of the comforts known to Saxon farmers of the eighteenth.
Seite 10 - For my own part, I never was before engaged in any study that so totally engrossed my attention and my time as this has lately done ; for what with making experiments when I can be alone, and repeating them to my Friends and Acquaintance, who, from the novelty of the thing, come continually in...
Seite 36 - I went from N. York with the family of the late Major General Greene to Georgia. I went immediately with the family to their Plantation about twelve miles from Savannah with an expectation of spending four or five days and then proceed into Carolina to take the school as I have mentioned in former letters. During this time I heard much said of the extreme difficulty of ginning Cotton, that is, separating it from its seeds. There were a number of very respectable Gentlemen at Mrs. Greene's who all...
Seite 6 - ... to show that I was not above my business, I sometimes brought home the paper I purchas'd at the stores thro' the streets on a wheelbarrow.
Seite 220 - Convincing sovereigns of the folly of wars may perhaps be one effect of it, since it will be impracticable for the most potent of them to guard his dominions. Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line, and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops...