Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures1836 - 448 páginas |
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... rollers move , And these retain , and those extend the rove ; Then fly the spokes , the rapid axles glow , While slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below . " 00 BEED MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER . CHAPTER I. FROM 28 INTRODUCTION .
... rollers move , And these retain , and those extend the rove ; Then fly the spokes , the rapid axles glow , While slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below . " 00 BEED MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER . CHAPTER I. FROM 28 INTRODUCTION .
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... rollers , & c . This convinced him that America must be very bare of every thing of the kind , and he prepared himself accordingly . He probably knew the risk he should run in attempting to leave England as a machinist , and it was ...
... rollers , & c . This convinced him that America must be very bare of every thing of the kind , and he prepared himself accordingly . He probably knew the risk he should run in attempting to leave England as a machinist , and it was ...
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... rollers with leather ; a specimen of which is in the Philadelphia Museum . I keep it by me as a curiosity , and it is quite equal to the same article made in England . Genius usually receives its early bias from some circumstances , in ...
... rollers with leather ; a specimen of which is in the Philadelphia Museum . I keep it by me as a curiosity , and it is quite equal to the same article made in England . Genius usually receives its early bias from some circumstances , in ...
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... rollers ; but their property failing , they went to Nottingham , and there , by the assistance of wealthy indivi- duals , erected a considerable cotton - mill turned by horses ; but this mode of procedure being found too expensive ...
... rollers ; but their property failing , they went to Nottingham , and there , by the assistance of wealthy indivi- duals , erected a considerable cotton - mill turned by horses ; but this mode of procedure being found too expensive ...
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... rollers in the mills are covered with ? Ours have been done with calf - skin . How the taking up is regulated . Ours is by leather strings ? On what the spools play and run , on irons ? The following document will show the extent to ...
... rollers in the mills are covered with ? Ours have been done with calf - skin . How the taking up is regulated . Ours is by leather strings ? On what the spools play and run , on irons ? The following document will show the extent to ...
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Página 274 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Página 176 - In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Department of the Interior of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
Página 140 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South...
Página 140 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Página 274 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufacture and a natural history of the country...
Página 141 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 29 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble...
Página 195 - We have experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations: that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.
Página 176 - President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity...
Página 239 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.