Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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... contrivances - The nick in types - Tags of laces - Casting shot - Candle - dipping - Tiring a wheel - Globe - making- Domestic aids to labour - Aids to mental labour - Effects of severe bodily labour on health and duration of life . 223 ...
... contrivances - The nick in types - Tags of laces - Casting shot - Candle - dipping - Tiring a wheel - Globe - making- Domestic aids to labour - Aids to mental labour - Effects of severe bodily labour on health and duration of life . 223 ...
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... contrivances . He must , therefore , to work pro- fitably , accumulate instruments of work . But he must do more , even in the unsocial state , where he is at perfect liberty to direct his industry as he pleases , uncontrolled by the ...
... contrivances . He must , therefore , to work pro- fitably , accumulate instruments of work . But he must do more , even in the unsocial state , where he is at perfect liberty to direct his industry as he pleases , uncontrolled by the ...
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... contrivance was imperfect , -that it was a mere imitation , and a very clumsy one . What an easy thing it appears to be for a farming man to thrash his corn with a flail ; and yet what an expensive arrangement of wheels is necessary to ...
... contrivance was imperfect , -that it was a mere imitation , and a very clumsy one . What an easy thing it appears to be for a farming man to thrash his corn with a flail ; and yet what an expensive arrangement of wheels is necessary to ...
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Charles Knight. dition . Immediately that the people have the simplest mechanical contrivance , such as the loaded lever , to raise water from a well , which is found represented in Egyptian sculpture , and also in our own Anglo - Saxon ...
Charles Knight. dition . Immediately that the people have the simplest mechanical contrivance , such as the loaded lever , to raise water from a well , which is found represented in Egyptian sculpture , and also in our own Anglo - Saxon ...
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... contrivances for bringing it . The service - pipes to each house are more perfect mecha- nical contrivances ; but they could not have been rendered so perfect without engines , which force the water above the level of the source from ...
... contrivances for bringing it . The service - pipes to each house are more perfect mecha- nical contrivances ; but they could not have been rendered so perfect without engines , which force the water above the level of the source from ...
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