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id: 15468
type: PRODUCT
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  | | 1844 | 616,000 | 1849 | 626,000 | 1854 | 828,000 | | 1845 | 666,000 | 1850 | 668,000 | 1855 | 757,000 | | 1846


id: 404
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Wait for a week or two, and if you are not better paid than this, I can tell you of a master who will give you a fairer wage


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id: 15468
title: Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
author: Caithness, James Sinclair, 14th earl of
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  steam-engine boilers, and coking coal, employed for making coke and gas. of vegetation--the great heat of the ground causes water to rise rapidly coal were brought up in the same time, and thus the water raised The great difficulty in working coal, should these upper seams fail, is the great man who brought this mighty power to bear on the vast The mind of a great man is called into action, and by applying state that all-powerful and most useful machine, the steam-engine. describes a means of raising water by the pressure of steam. raise water to drive mill-wheels--fancy erecting a steam engine now, of The weight of steam is about 1800 times less than water. first use of the steam-engine was simply to raise water from mines, and steam-engines were used to raise water that had passed over the wheel, generates great heat; and this is due to its attraction for the water.


id: 20064
title: Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
author: Parton, James
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  carpenters to work upon a new church, and one of these men, having left held that in this country the entire people are one great working class, John Harrison lived to the good old age of eighty-three years. Poor boys had a hard time of it in New England eighty years ago. his new place; and scarcely a day passed during his first year when he farmer, thirty years of age, cultivating with great success his own farm can work in a cotton mill ten hours a day for years at a stretch, years old worked regularly fourteen hours a day, with but half an hour''s In two years the young men were selling fifty or sixty thousand pounds'' the year in London, working night and day as a member of Parliament. By the time he was fifteen years old he had of business in the good old times.


id: 25822
title: Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls
author: Anonymous
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  compact type, with very little space wasted in head lines, eight large the world, only little Nell cutting and pasting from old papers, a morning, the City Editor wants to lay out to-day''s work. When the copy comes up, a man takes it and cuts it up into little after type-setter comes and takes one of these little bits, and in a few umbrellas covered with large feathers that would shed rain like a "duck''s principal works, and there Paul saw great bins of horns, the different "Why, from the gas-works, of course," said Philip in a very superior way, fire from the little iron doors made the place look weird and ghostly. looked like a very large drum-shaped clock, with several different dials little plan of the metre on a piece of paper, and then went on to explain "These eggs are a little cool," said August, putting one up to his cheek.


id: 14664
title: Things To Make
author: Williams, Archibald
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  legs, and at a point 4 inches from one end run off at an angle of 162 Draw cross lines with your square 3 inches from each end of both pieces, on The Connecting Rod.--Bore a hole near the end of the plunger for a screw Centre line of piston rod, 1-1/4 inches laterally from near edge of bed; We begin by cutting out of 1/20-inch sheet brass a piece shaped as in Fig. 60. exact centres drill 1/8-inch holes, and cut the pieces squarely in two For the boiler use a piece of brass tubing 4 inches or so in diameter and 3 The steam-pipe is a circle of 5/16-inch copper tube, having one end 1/2-inch cross tubes, set as indicated by the end view (Fig. 83), and 3/4 elbow, a piece of 5/16-inch brass tube, and a round tin box holding about Next cut two 1/4-inch pieces off a tube which fits the spindle.


id: 404
title: Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
author: Smiles, Samuel
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  metal; but when the art of smelting and working in iron and steel had Few records exist of the manufacture of iron in England in early times. That working in iron was regarded as an honourable and useful calling long time the iron-works of this county enjoyed almost a monopoly of From this time the iron manufacture of Sussex, as of England generally, He introduced great improvements in the working of the coal and iron improvements in the art of making and working iron, the steam-engine of iron manufacture has been in a great measure due to the inventions of and ironstone, and several small iron works had for some time been 1760; and in the course of the same year the Carron Iron Works turned improvement of machine-tools, the methods of working in wood and metals invention of machine-making tools, the use of the steam-engine in the


id: 725
title: Men of Invention and Industry
author: Smiles, Samuel
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  continental countries, our best ships long continued to be built by ships of force; and in course of time England no longer depended upon skill; great discoveries and inventions are worked up to by the efforts years, the use of iron became general, not only for ships of war, but the grand desideratum for men "who go down to the sea in ships." Mr. Macpherson, in his important work entitled ''The Annals of Commerce,'' nearly constant work and in perfect use for about thirty years. He worked for a time in the printing office of scheme for a self-acting machine for working the printing press. when the success of Koenig''s machine was publicly proclaimed by Mr. Walter of The Times some seven years later. But Koenig''s printing machine was but the beginning of a great new of iron; and this, in course of time, was found to work with great


id: 7886
title: Steam, Steel and Electricity
author: Steele, James W.
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  the conductor of a current.--The first Electric Light.--The Arc and reason, but by great physical facts like steam, electricity and Niagara for the purpose of sending electric currents hundreds of miles During all this time, and to a great degree long after, electricity was easier the practical application of electrical power as we now use it, A magnet may be made at will with the electric current, as the production of magnetism by a current of electricity, as in the case It has been shown that electricity produces magnetism; that the current, water to be two currents of electricity having power to sway and move making a magnetic needle rotate around a wire carrying an electric Where the electric light is produced by the dynamo current no motor efforts of men to utilize the power of the electrical current in electrical current, and that men have discovered more than nature knew


id: 38329
title: The Romance of Industry and Invention
author: nan
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  and diamond mining industry; and the carrying-trade of the world. Atlantic Shipping Lines--The _Great Eastern_ and the New days, the development of the iron manufacture came to be regarded in 1861, and four years later erected sample steel works at Birmingham. Crewe in 1868, and the Great Western Railway works followed. present time, Krupp''s works within the town of Essen occupy more than ancient Roman and other workings, the gold-mines of Wales were long Vein-mining for gold differs but little from working any other kind of years this company turned out gold to the value of a million, and paid The great number of large stones found in the mines of South Africa, as revolver system; but modern machine guns are a great improvement on this vessels of great speed, armed with quick-firing guns, are likely to be Shipping Lines--The _Great Eastern_ and the New Cunarders


id: 38367
author: Knight, Charles
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  power of labour would in his case be in its least productive state._ He requires some accumulation to aid his natural powers of labouring; for security, no exchange, no capital, no labour, no production. labour in exchange for meat and drink; the capitalist wanted the produce great use of the coined metal is to save labour in exchanging the ox for share in the productive power of capital and labour working together for the instant the labour of man ceases to direct those productive natural of trade, which compelled capital and labour to work unprofitably. manual labour, all are great gainers by the general use of that power. great part produced by the want of profitable labour. makes a little machine which saves him great labour. division of labour on the working man as a consumer, because it is the The division of labour in carrying forward the work of production is

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  Knowledge Is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill.


id: 40101
title: Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2)
author: Hazen, Edward
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  Engraving is the art of cutting letters or figures in wood, metals, or The process of drawing on stone differs but little from that on paper, single piece, which have been cast in moulds formed on common printing performance of the work by certain letters called _signatures_, placed business to employ persons capable of executing every kind of work 6. In polishing irregular surfaces, the different kinds of stone are kind of work, the operator is guided by patterns, formed from the is performed by means of a cutting instrument fixed in a kind of cylindrical form by rolling it upon a cast iron or stone table. process by which this kind of work is performed is called moulding. wheels of cast iron, stone, and wood, of different sizes; and the pieces of which they are formed are cut from a plate, and brought to a


id: 39721
title: Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 1 (of 2)
author: Hazen, Edward
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  case in all works embracing so great a variety of subjects. case, the people, having sunk into a state of barbarism, depended for rest is left in the form of sugar, in the state called _muscovado_. considerable quantities, in the northern parts of the United States, The three general methods of making bread, and the great number of materials employed, admit of a great variety in this essential article chief article of this kind, manufactured in the United States, it will United States, would be sufficient for the support of common schools country in the United States, in which the people manufacture much of In ancient times, great attention was paid to dressing the hair. States, for many years after their adoption in Great Britain. in country places, in almost every part of the United States. the United States, where common schools are not established by law.


id: 42317
title: Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen
author: Varnum, William H. (William Harrison)
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  [Sidenote: Divisions in Design Evolution and Enrichment] [Sidenote: Designing Objects with Horizontal Divisions--(_Continued_)] [Illustration: HORIZONTAL SPACE DIVISIONS OF THE PRIMARY MASS IN WOOD designer was required to form a vertical primary mass to conform with SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD major division of Industrial Arts Design, that of Surface Enrichment. [Illustration: STRAIGHT LINE SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF A SMALL PRIMARY MASS SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD--Continued [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN WOOD [Illustration: SURFACE ENRICHMENT OF SMALL PRIMARY MASSES IN METAL WITH


id: 45083
title: The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out
author: Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas)
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  "These," Fred said, "will be fine to build a little landing place or pier The end (Fig. 10) shows how Fred and Nick, with George''s help, built a rope and set of pulley-blocks like the ones shown in Fig. 11. called, the Lever, Pulley, Wheel and Axle, Inclined Plane, Wedge, and feet in length, 8 Ã� 10 inches in section, so Fred decided to make use of constructed like an ordinary steam engine with cylinder, slide-valve and The string looping up the flag was left long enough to enable Mr. Gregg, standing on the dock, to hold the end in his hand, and by pulling The propeller wheel (Fig. 38) is a screw having a large helical dimension. fastened to one end of the 1-foot 2-inch piece by means of a long screw. horse-power, which should be placed in the position shown in Fig. 218.


id: 44502
title: Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature
author: Williams, Henry Smith
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  elaborate mechanisms--turbine wheels, steam engines, dynamos--through engine immediately supplant water power and the direct application of electric dynamo driven by water power may take the place of the steam the recent progress in the development of steam and electrical power, such a case any number of small water-pressure engines may be operated The practical steam engine in its modern form dates, as just mentioned, practical power, until after such machines worked by steam had been working energy contained in the steam; and the water wheels in turn considerably less working power than is expended by the steam engine in steam-engine or by water power--to enable the coiled wires of the to produce electricity through the operation of a steam engine in a Electrical currents representing thousands of horse-power are to-day In recent years electric traction engines for use in mines have been Steam power and electric dynamo everywhere


