item: #1 of 151 id: 11344 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 date: None words: 34743 flesch: 63 summary: In many other cases we see less complete forms of insanity and more indistinct psychological disturbances and neuroses, and among the latter epilepsy demands particular attention. A visit to this locality is a delightful manner in which to spend a holiday or other time of leisure; and as it affords so many interesting and valuable minerals, it forms a very profitable trip as well. keywords: acid; action; alcohol; alkaloids; apparatus; carbon; cases; cent; church; color; cut; distance; eccentric; end; experiments; feet; fig; floor; form; friction; heat; illustration; inches; increase; iron; length; manner; means; new; paper; point; present; process; pyridine; quinoline; series; solution; time; use; valve; water; work; years cache: 11344.txt plain text: 11344.txt item: #2 of 151 id: 11368 author: Doubleday, Russell title: Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers date: None words: 42049 flesch: 62 summary: This theory has since been abandoned, great power having been substituted for great height. Current of great power is used, and the spark is a blinding flash accompanied by deafening noises that suggest a volley from rifles. keywords: air; balloon; boat; bridge; central; dumont; end; engine; feet; gasoline; great; heat; line; machine; man; marconi; men; miles; motor; new; pictures; place; power; run; santos; set; ship; speed; station; steam; steel; submarine; surface; telephone; time; train; use; vessel; water; waves; way; work cache: 11368.txt plain text: 11368.txt item: #3 of 151 id: 11383 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 date: None words: 38879 flesch: 67 summary: H.P. | H.P. | H.P. | at Central | | | | | | Works: | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thousands of | 1,080,000 | 2,160,000 |3,240,000 | 4,320,000 |5,400,000 | Cubic Feet at 45 | | | | | | lbs. pressure | | | | | | at engines | | | | | | Deduction for | 17,928 | 70,927 | 154,429 | 267,529 | 409,346 | friction and | | | | | | leakage | | | | | | Estimated net | 1,062,072 | 2,089,073 |3,085,571 | 4,052,471 |4,990,654 | delivery | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPITAL | | | | | | EXPENDITURE-- | | | | | | Purchase and pre-| £12,500 | (amounts below apply to extension of works) | paration of land | | | | | | Machinery | 27,854 | £25,595 | £25,595 | £25,595 | £25,595 | Mains | 10,328 | 10.328 | 10,328 | 10,328 | 10,328 | Buildings | 8,505 | 4,516 | 4,632 | 4,614 | 4,594 | Parlimentary and | | | | | keywords: air; angle; body; case; cell; center; circle; deaf; deflection; direction; disk; distance; earth; feet; fig; force; form; generation; hand; i. |; illustration; iron; line; metal; methods; motion; new; plant; point; power; radius; resistance; second; sine; time; use; velocity; water; way; | ii; | | cache: 11383.txt plain text: 11383.txt item: #4 of 151 id: 11385 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 date: None words: 39649 flesch: 65 summary: But there are apparently good reasons for preferring the theory of Richthofen: viz., first, the veinstone of the Comstock is chiefly quartz, the natural and common precipitate of _hot_ waters, since they are far more powerful solvents of silica than cold. Deeper lying masses of this same silver, lead, and iron bearing rock, digested in and leached by _hot_ waters and steam under great pressure, would seem to be a more likely source of the ore. keywords: = =; battery; case; contact; cost; deposits; end; feet; fig; food; form; gas; gauge; ground; half; illustration; iron; line; machine; means; miles; mill; mineral; new; number; ore; pipe; power; pressure; rails; railway; river; rocks; rope; silver; state; surface; system; time; tin; tugs; use; veins; water; wind; wire; work; year cache: 11385.txt plain text: 11385.txt item: #5 of 151 id: 11498 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 date: None words: 37386 flesch: 66 summary: It should be uniformly burnt, should be sound, free from cracks, flaws, stones, lumps of any kind, but especially lumps of lime, should be of a good color for its sort (whether red, yellow, or white), should have a metallic clang when two bricks are struck together; when broken should be sound right through, should be tough and pasty in texture, not granular, and should require repeated blows to break it, rather than one hard blow (such bricks will withstand cartage and handling best). Persons who have to design and construct brick buildings should never forget that they have to be handled with caution, and are really very ticklish and unstable. keywords: action; beam; belt; brick; brickwork; building; case; coil; course; current; effect; face; feet; fig; form; gas; great; illustration; iron; light; lines; london; magazine; material; means; mortar; new; position; ship; spectra; stone; system; time; torpedo; use; wall; water; wire; | | cache: 11498.txt plain text: 11498.txt item: #6 of 151 id: 11647 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 date: None words: 44629 flesch: 65 summary: At other times, if the winters are very mild, these plants grow too rapidly in height, and then are broken short off by moderately strong winds. At other times, on the contrary, it persists obstinately, and one is often forced in desperation to the resolve to level the ground again and to varnish it, so to speak, with a thick sowing of grass, if he wishes to suspend or weaken the malarial production. keywords: air; bacilli; base; boiler; cwt; cylinders; diameter; driving; end; engines; express; feet; gear; high; hour; malaria; means; miles; new; order; ore; point; power; pressure; railway; rays; silver; soil; speed; steam; surface; temperature; time; tons; total; trains; valve; water; weight; western; wheels; working; | | cache: 11647.txt plain text: 11647.txt item: #7 of 151 id: 11648 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 date: None words: 38909 flesch: 65 summary: The flushing sluice in the deepest part of the dam had become jammed, so that the pressure could not be relieved, and in February 30 ft. length of the dam was carried away, causing a flood in the river below. The air is denser at sea level than at 8,000 feet up, and the lower stratum is more likely to hold small water particles or dust in suspension than is the higher. keywords: air; apparatus; blue; boat; case; color; construction; dam; dams; day; disease; end; feet; fig; form; ground; illustration; inch; length; light; long; masonry; matter; motion; number; particles; point; present; puddle; punka; red; reservoir; second; sound; tabasheer; time; water; way; work; years; | | cache: 11648.txt plain text: 11648.txt item: #8 of 151 id: 11649 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 date: None words: 32794 flesch: 65 summary: As the necessity for compressed air power grew, inventors turned their attention to the construction of air-compressing engines that would combine _efficiency_ One of these machines, of about 400 horse power capacity, is now at work furnishing compressed air power for the Brightwood Street Railway in Washington, D.C. Fig. 10 illustrates the Norwalk direct-acting straight line air compressor, with compound air cylinder. keywords: air; air compressor; air cylinder; air piston; air power; air pressure; cent; compression; compressors; construction; cost; cylinders; deck; degrees; diameter; engine; feet; fig; gas; heat; horse; illustration; iron; loss; motor; oil; piston; point; pounds; power; pressure; ship; speed; steam; stroke; temperature; use; volume; water; wheel; work; | | cache: 11649.txt plain text: 11649.txt item: #9 of 151 id: 11662 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 date: None words: 35409 flesch: 67 summary: Every effort is now made to reduce, as much as possible, not only the extent of movement of the parts in high speed machines, but the weight of the parts themselves. The intermittent movements of the take-up have thus led to the abandonment of variable motions in both needle and shuttle, and particularly so in oscillating shuttle machines. keywords: apparatus; art; diameter; feet; fig; forms; general; guns; high; hook; illustration; inch; large; lead; length; light; machine; needle; new; ornament; pitch; plates; point; power; screw; sewing; ship; shuttle; slip; speed; stitch; style; surface; thickness; thread; time; twin; use; water; work; | | cache: 11662.txt plain text: 11662.txt item: #10 of 151 id: 11734 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 date: None words: 39740 flesch: 60 summary: Such water, then, is incapable of transmitting the germs of disease. But as it was high water we went toward a sand beach with the animal, and we had him safely stranded at night. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; camphor; case; fig; fire; form; gas; gases; illustration; impact; kinetic; lamp; liquid; london; matter; means; model; motion; new; paper; place; plant; present; pressure; question; reaction; rocket; round; second; solid; surface; theory; time; tube; use; velocity; water; way; years; york; | | cache: 11734.txt plain text: 11734.txt item: #11 of 151 id: 11735 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 date: None words: 38290 flesch: 61 summary: It became of interest, then, to ascertain the age to which the formation of these fragments might be referred, they being evidently more ancient than those considered above, which, as we have seen, could not have been transported in this state on account of their dimensions and the fragility of made coal. It is evident (as we have demonstrated) that other cannel coals may show different plant organs, or even contain none at all, their presence appearing to be accidental. keywords: american; association; average; case; cent; coal; cylinder; fact; fig; gas; high; illustration; labor; light; little; machine; man; massachusetts; matter; means; men; new; number; power; present; roller; section; states; system; telephone; time; torpedo; tube; united; use; wages; water; way; wood; work; years; | | cache: 11735.txt plain text: 11735.txt item: #12 of 151 id: 11736 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 date: None words: 38046 flesch: 66 summary: The attention of gas engineers has been forcibly directed to the use of tar as a fuel for the firing of retorts, now that this once high-priced material is suffering, like everything else (but, perhaps, to a more marked extent), by what is called depression in trade. [Illustration: GAS ENGINE FOR USE ON RAILROADS.] keywords: acid; air; american; bath; boats; coal; combustion; composition; construction; country; diameter; engineer; fact; feet; fig; fire; furnace; gas; gun; heat; illustration; iron; length; light; major; manner; means; meters; new; paper; parts; point; quantity; railroad; results; second; snow; tar; time; torpedo; use; water; way; whistler; work; years cache: 11736.txt plain text: 11736.txt item: #13 of 151 id: 11761 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 date: None words: 35070 flesch: 66 summary: |M. Coryell | & Columbia | | |stringers| track | | | Railroad | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5|Boston & |1844|Sulphate |Ties | | |I. Hinckley | Providence | | of iron | | | | | Railroad | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6|Belvedere |1850|Salt |Hemlock | | |M. Coryell | Railroad | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7|Baltimore |1850|Lime |Ties | | |J.L. Randolph | & Ohio | | | | | --+------------+----+-----------+---------+----------+---------+--------------- 1|Chestnut |1839|Earle's |Hemlock |Paving |Failure |S.V. Beuet | Street, | | | blocks | | | | Philadelpha| | | | | | | | | | | | | 2|Watervliet |1840| |Oak |Gun | | | Arsenal | | | timber | carriage | | | | | | | | | 3|Delaware & |1840| |Rope |Fungus |Favorable| | Hudson | | | | pit | | | Canal | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4|Philadelphia|1840|Lime bath |Pine |Railroad |Unfavor. keywords: = |; acid; air; apparatus; c. |; case; concrete; experiments; fig; gas |; generator; great; heat; illustration; iron |; light; means; new; ohio |; paper; pipe; process; results; room; slabs; steam; steel; system; temperature; time; track |; use; water; waves; wood; work; years |; | blocks; | mass; | r.r; | railroad; | | cache: 11761.txt plain text: 11761.txt item: #14 of 151 id: 12490 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 date: None words: 38016 flesch: 66 summary: calculated | Landscape with | Fairly | to | / on the | heavy foliage in | lighted | | / Portraits in standard | foreground. | interiors | | / studio light system +------+-------+ +------+ | | | / of the | Sea |Open | | Under| | | | / Portraits Photographic| and |land- | |trees,| | | | | in ordinary Society. keywords: battery; cell; change; coca; current; cut; day; diameter; effect; end; engine; exposure; feet; fluid; form; glass; half; illustration; inches; light; new; paper; plate; power; pressure; process; pump; resistance; results; selenium; sensitiveness; solution; steam; stroke; surface; table; time; use; water; way; | | cache: 12490.txt plain text: 12490.txt item: #15 of 151 id: 12594 author: Marot, Helen title: Creative Impulse in Industry: A Proposition for Educators date: None words: 31366 flesch: 48 summary: It is the institution of industry as it has affected the life of every man, woman and child, which has inhibited educational thought in conjunction with schemes for industrial schools. But standards in business accounting, in estimating costs, in planning operations, and in technique, will not be maintained as they usually are in industrial schools for the sake of the training, but for the purpose of carrying forward successfully the actual work with which the shop is concerned. keywords: business; children; creative; desire; education; enterprise; experience; industry; interest; labor; life; management; matter; men; people; power; processes; production; school; shop; state; system; time; wealth; workers cache: 12594.txt plain text: 12594.txt item: #16 of 151 id: 13266 author: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission title: Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission date: None words: 248503 flesch: 53 summary: However, in this department the exhibitors were mostly old firms or very large manufacturers, and while women are undoubtedly making their way into mechanics they have not been in the field long enough to have reached a point where their work of a nature to form exposition exhibits can compete with man's work. The three functionaries appointed for the Turkish commission were instructed to aid and to give advice to private exhibitors only who were Turkish subjects and who could be accommodated in exhibit buildings. keywords: account; act; agriculture; american; appropriation; approval; april; arts; attention; aug; awards; bid; bids; board; building; carter; cases; chairman; charge; chicago; chicago exposition; chief; children; city; class; classes; clerk; collection; commissioner; committee; congress; contract; corn; cost; countries; country; date; day; december; department; development; director; display; education; executive; exhibit; exhibition; exhibitors; exposition board; exposition building; exposition commission; exposition company; exposition grounds; exposition period; exposition work; fact; fair; feet; fish; following; foreign; forestry; francis; french; furniture; game; general; gold; good; government; governor; grand; group; hall; hon; house; indian; industries; information; installation; interest; john; july; june; juries; jurors; jury; labor; lady; lady managers; law; letter; list; louis exposition; louisiana; louisiana purchase; machinery; making; managers; manner; march; material; matter; meeting; members; metallurgy; mines; missouri; money; mrs; national commission; new; november; number; october; office; officers; official; order; palace; pavilion; people; photographs; power; present; president; president exposition; president francis; products; progress; property; public; purchase exposition; purpose; receipts; regulations; report; representatives; right; room; rules; salary; sale; salvage; samples; school; second; secretary; section; service; service company; set; showing; silver; social; space; special; specimens; square; state; state board; state building; state commission; state exhibit; statement; stock; subject; sum; superior; system; taylor; telegraph company; territory; thomas; time; total; transportation; treasurer; union; united; united states; value; varieties; washington; way; women; work; world; wrecking company; years; york cache: 13266.txt plain text: 13266.txt item: #17 of 151 id: 13358 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 date: None words: 37757 flesch: 70 summary: per | 1. | | | | feet | feet | |sq. V. | Energy, | Inches.|Inches.| shot. keywords: air; armor; bark; black; cent; color; dogs; e |; engine; fig; form; good; half; heat; horse; illustration; inch; inches; iron; la |; mains; new; oak; plate; power; pressure |; r |; results; station; steam; steel; system; time; use; water; watt; white; work; world; year; | cylinder; | diameter; | hour; | n; | | cache: 13358.txt plain text: 13358.txt item: #18 of 151 id: 13399 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 date: None words: 39184 flesch: 64 summary: V. That, as the _additional_ sum now asked for by De Lesseps (_even if sufficient_) to complete the Panama Canal is _greater_ than the estimated cost of either Nicaragua Canal or the Ship Railway, it would be economical to abandon the Panama Canal, and the money sunk in it, to date, unless its location and form possess paramount advantages; and we therefore may profitably consider the relative merits of the three lines without regard to the past, from four standpoints, viz.: For instance, with regard to economy, the engine employed to generate the electricity was not in thoroughly good order, and from its being used to do other work than charging the accumulators of the tram-car, the consumption of fuel had to be to some extent estimated. keywords: acid; air; alizarine; alphabet; blue; car; carriage; dew; emulsion; end; engine; engineer; eosine; experiments; feet; fibers; form; grass; ground; hand; inches; iron; kil; line; matter; means; motor; new; place; plates; point; pressure; process; railway; sibley; soil; solution; steam; surface; time; use; vapor; water; weight; wool; work cache: 13399.txt plain text: 13399.txt item: #19 of 151 id: 13401 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 date: None words: 34416 flesch: 66 summary: In the New York and Brooklyn bridge the cost of a sufficient amount of such iron wire as is used in all other suspension bridges would have been some $200,000 greater than that of the straight steel wire which was used. The main buildings are provided with corner pavilions, the atticas of which project over the roofs, and these atticas and other parts of the buildings are to be surmounted by quadrigas, one of which is shown in the annexed cut, taken from the _Illustrirte Zeitung_. keywords: aqueduct; box; bridge; case; cent; city; coal; course; day; end; feet; fig; fire; fuel; gas; great; heat; illustration; iron; laboratory; light; meucci; miles; new; order; pittsburg; plates; power; pressure; reservoir; steel; supply; time; use; valley; water; way; wells; wire; work; years cache: 13401.txt plain text: 13401.txt item: #20 of 151 id: 13443 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 date: None words: 36357 flesch: 63 summary: Roughly speaking, the ordinary types of burner give the following results: ------------------------------------------------------------ | Illuminating | Products of Combustion | Power in | per Name of Burner. |Quantity of | | Products of Combustion| | | Materials | Oxygen | | Carbon | | Illuminant | Used | Removed |Water Vapor| Dioxide |Adults| --------------+------------+----------+-----------+-----------+------+ Sperm Candles |3,840 grains|19.27 c.f.|13.12 c.f. |13.12 c.f. keywords: air; american; burner; business; cables; canal; carbon; chickens; circulation; combustion; company; current; daily; end; fed; feet; fig; flame; gas; glass; hens; illustration; lake; length; matter; miles; new; number; paper; place; pole; power; present; products; space; time; tube; use; water; work; years; york; | lb; | lot; | | cache: 13443.txt plain text: 13443.txt item: #21 of 151 id: 13640 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 date: None words: 44943 flesch: 64 summary: | per square | per square | length of | | | inch. +------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | keywords: acid; apparatus; arabic; c |; cable; case; cent; cotton; cut; experiments; fat; feet; following; form; good; gum; gun; lead; method; order; ounces; paper; powder; pressure; quantity; results; road; roof; roofing; smokeless; solution; starch |; steam; surface; tar; tar paper; temperature; time; use; viscosity; water; weight; work; years; | -----+----------------+-----------------------+-------+-----------+; | ----------------------+------------+-----------+; | ghatti; | o; | z; | | cache: 13640.txt plain text: 13640.txt item: #22 of 151 id: 13939 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 date: None words: 35591 flesch: 67 summary: From this time many gas engines were proposed, and the more impracticable combustion of gunpowder received less attention. Simultaneously with the development of the steam engine, inventors continued to struggle with the direct acting combustion or gas engine, often without any definite understanding of why they should attempt such apparent impossibilities, but always by their experiments and repeated failures increasing knowledge, and forming a firm road upon which those following them traveled to success. keywords: air; corps; cylinder; day; end; engine; feet; fig; flowers; form; gas; gas engine; horse; illustration; inch; light; method; miles; mould; pipe; piston; plane; power; present; pressure; screw; second; states; steam; steam engine; surface; survey; time; track; united; use; water; work; years cache: 13939.txt plain text: 13939.txt item: #23 of 151 id: 13962 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 date: None words: 40393 flesch: 63 summary: Mutual |Penn.| 601,625| 107,600| 494,025| 309,858| 62.7| 8| 463,567| 37,131|5.38| 13 Provident Life and | | | | | | | | | | | Trust | | 280,817| 49,865| 230,952| 222,665| 96.4| 17| 340,115| 33,294|4.26| 25 Provident Savings | N.Y.| 24,875| 1,828| 23,047| 51,608|233.9| 27| 4,955| 2,579|1.70| 27 Travelers' |Conn.| 235,001| 42,243| 192,758| 144,621| 75.0| 13| 331,623| 22,476|6.42| 3 Union Mutual |Maine| 377,547| 88,520| 289,027| 237,913| 82.3| 16| 301,499| 28,754|4.66| 23 United States | N.Y.| 283,304| 69,245| 214,059| 277,919|129.8| Ft.| | | | | per | | | Combi- |Cub. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; case; company; cost; current; diameter; earth; electricity; feet; fig; form; given; having; illustration; inches; iron; length; means; new; number; petroleum; pipe; place; power; pressure; quantity; shaft; solution; steam; surface; system; temperature; time; water; weight; wheel; work; years; zinc; | lb; | | cache: 13962.txt plain text: 13962.txt item: #24 of 151 id: 14009 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 date: None words: 42267 flesch: 62 summary: +==========+ |=| |=| |=| |=| |=| \======= \======= =======/ ======= ======= | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |--| | | | | | ======= ======= ======= /======= =======\ |=| |=| |=| |=| |=| +===========+ +==========+ +===== ======+ |=| |=| |=| |=| |=| |=| ======= =======/ B\======= =======/A A\======= =======/B | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |--| | | | | | | | | | ======= ======= A======= =======B =======B =======A |=| |=| |=| |=| |=| |=| +==========+ +==========+ +====== =====+ FIG. | | | | on | on | Total. keywords: + =; = =; animals; armature; bacilli; bacteria; case; circuit; current; cut; distance; eccentric; effect; electromagnet; engine; fact; fig; form; illustration; insurance; iron; life; line; living; matter; means; new; plants; point; power; present; question; resistance; results; state; station; steam; time; valve; water; way; work; year; | =; | | cache: 14009.txt plain text: 14009.txt item: #25 of 151 id: 14041 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 date: None words: 36429 flesch: 61 summary: It is not, however, necessary to employ circular wheels exclusively or even at all; wheels of other forms are capable of acting together in the relation of sun and planet, and in this way a varying velocity ratio may be produced even with a fixed sun-wheel and a single driver. He says that they were possessed of a rapidly moving lash, and that there were other forms without tails, which he assumed were developmental stages of the form. keywords: acid; action; air; bell; case; end; engine; experiments; fact; feet; fig; form; inch; life; liquid; living; matter; means; minute; motion; nature; new; nitrification; organism; point; power; present; pressure; result; soil; sound; state; steam; temperature; time; use; water; way; wheel; whistle cache: 14041.txt plain text: 14041.txt item: #26 of 151 id: 14092 author: Anonymous title: The World's Fair Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home. date: None words: 32543 flesch: 75 summary: There are scarcely any manufactures, but the farmers keep immense flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle; and there is a vast quantity of fine wool sent every year to England; and ships provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter, are supplied to the vessels sailing to India, Australia, and many other parts of the world; their other chief export is Cape wine. The art of printing, though done in what I must confess is rather a clumsy manner, is much exercised amongst them, and gives employment to many people. keywords: author; beautiful; book; children; cloth; corner; country; easy; england; engravings; exhibition; frontispiece; good; grandmamma; grandpapa; history; illustrations; iron; little; look; map; miss; number; pages; parts; people; plates; present; queen; stories; tales; things; work; world; young cache: 14092.txt plain text: 14092.txt item: #27 of 151 id: 14097 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 date: None words: 29657 flesch: 68 summary: | temperature. 2: +---------------------+------------------+---------------------- | | Boiling point in | Steam pressure above | Solution of soda. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; boiler; carbon; cholera; end; engine; fig; form; gas; girder; glass; illustration; iron; means; negative; new; paper; parts; plate; point; potash; printing; process; soda; solution; steam; temperature; time; use; water; work; | | cache: 14097.txt plain text: 14097.txt item: #28 of 151 id: 14989 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 date: None words: 43189 flesch: 60 summary: Many other subjects, including Sewerage, Piping, Lighting, Warming, Ventilating, Decorating, Laying out of Grounds, etc., are illustrated. First Fact._--The amount of ether, chloroform, chloral hydrate, the bromides, strychnine, and many other remedies, required to produce physiological effects upon the cerebro-spinal mechanism may be reduced by first securing a ligature around the central portion of one or several of the limbs of an animal, so as to interrupt both the arterial and venous circulation. keywords: air; bleaching; blood; case; chest; circuit; color; current; effect; eye; eyes; fig; form; glasses; hydrogen; illustration; instrument; light; line; liquid; man; material; means; new; number; order; point; power; present; pulp; result; river; second; series; solution; subject; sugar; system; time; use; vision; water; way; work; years cache: 14989.txt plain text: 14989.txt item: #29 of 151 id: 14990 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 date: None words: 37671 flesch: 61 summary: There is a tuning slide attached to the body, and, of late years, valves have been added to the horn, similar to those applied to the cornet and other wind instruments. The flute generally goes with the violins in the orchestra, or sustains long notes with the other wood wind instruments, or is used in those conversational passages with other instruments that lend such a charm to orchestral music. keywords: acid; air; ammonia; apparatus; bass; clarinet; end; fig; flat; flute; form; gas; gases; high; horn; hydrogen; ice; illustration; instruments; iron; links; metal; military; new; notes; oboe; operation; pair; place; present; pressure; process; reed; second; shoe; silver; southern; system; time; tone; tube; use; water; webs cache: 14990.txt plain text: 14990.txt item: #30 of 151 id: 15050 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 date: None words: 42493 flesch: 63 summary: More recently (1886-88) Abney and Russell exposed water colors under red, green, and blue glass, and came to the same conclusion. Abney and Russell, in their experiments with water colors, obtained similar results. keywords: acid; bacteria; blue; canal; cells; class; coloring; colors; course; cut; diameter; dyes; fastness; feet; fig; form; great; head; hole; illustration; iron; lake; light; machine; means; metal; miles; new; number; place; plates; point; power; present; river; rivets; series; solution; soul; steel; time; use; water; way; wheat; wool; work; years; | | cache: 15050.txt plain text: 15050.txt item: #31 of 151 id: 15051 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 date: None words: 30836 flesch: 66 summary: In other parts of the State the Mission Fathers had dug ditches and built aqueducts, so that the settlers who came after them found a well devised water system, which they merely followed. When a human body is living after the age when the period of its growth is completed and before the period of its decay has commenced, it produces, when it is quite healthy, by its own chemical processes, so much heat or force as shall enable it, within given bounds, (1) to move its own machinery; (2) to call forth, at will, a limited measure of extra force which has been lying latent in its organism; and (3) to supply a fluctuating loss that must be conveyed away by contact with the surrounding air, by the earth, and by other bodies that it may touch, and which are colder than itself. keywords: air; body; canned; cent; chloride; co.; cold; doses; equivalent; fact; fig; foliage; force; form; fresno; great; heat; illustration; iron; maximum; method; minimum; new; parts; plants; pound; process; raisin; second; serial; temperature; time; tin; vessel; water; work; years cache: 15051.txt plain text: 15051.txt item: #32 of 151 id: 15052 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 date: None words: 38635 flesch: 64 summary: The leading feature of the invention is the arrangement of scales, which enables the operation of setting put large curves for railway or other work to be carried out without requiring any calculations, thereby enabling any intelligent man to execute work which would otherwise call for a knowledge of the use of a theodolite and the tables of tangential angles. It has been frequently asked if the existing and accepted formula for determining in advance the amount of refined sugar that may be extracted from either beets, _masse cuite_ or raw sugar, is to be considered exact, without special allowance being made for raffinose. keywords: acid; amboy; american; apparatus; beet; carbon; case; curve; diameter; end; engine; feet; fig; flame; fluorine; form; gas; glass; good; great; hole; illustration; inches; instrument; liquid; new; order; platinum; point; railroad; set; solution; stevens; stone; sugar; system; telescope; temperature; time; tons; tube; use; water; weight; work; years cache: 15052.txt plain text: 15052.txt item: #33 of 151 id: 15193 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 date: None words: 45432 flesch: 65 summary: I understood well, when it came up to me mewing, what the sound meant; sometimes the kitten wanted to come up and sleep in my lap; at other times it was asking me to play with it. The reader doubtless remembers the beautiful reddish or purple glow at sunrise and sunset for fully six months after August, 1883--that glow was caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere interfering with the passage of the sun's rays of the upper part of the solar spectrum, more manifest at sun rising and setting than at other times during the day, because at these periods the sun's rays have to travel obliquely through the atmosphere, and consequently penetrating a very deep layer, were deprived of all their colors except the red. keywords: acid; air; boron; brick; case; cent; coal; cost; cries; crude; current; days; earth; electricity; end; enemy; engineer; experiments; feet; flowers; form; fort; fuel; half; high; hours; light; line; man; means; miles; military; new; number; oil; plants; power; present; pressure; process; results; soda; solution; speed; steam; time; torpedo; use; water; way; wood; work; years cache: 15193.txt plain text: 15193.txt item: #34 of 151 id: 15417 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 date: None words: 42397 flesch: 62 summary: Hitherto, as noted in a previous article, American naturalists have regarded the heloderm as quite harmless--an opinion well sustained by the judgment of many persons in Arizona and other parts of the West by whom the reptile has been kept as an interesting though ugly pet. During his climbing he has been doing a vast amount of other work, both internal and external. keywords: acid; action; air; apparatus; armature; blood; body; car; case; current; earth; feet; form; gas; hair; head; heat; illustration; iron; life; line; lungs; machine; matter; means; motion; nature; new; number; oil; parts; place; power; present; process; resistance; steam; steel; sun; system; time; tons; use; water; work; year cache: 15417.txt plain text: 15417.txt item: #35 of 151 id: 15708 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 date: None words: 38755 flesch: 64 summary: In such a process, the complete breaking down of some of the heavy hydrocarbons takes place, and the superheated steam, acting on the carbon so liberated, forms water gas which bears the lower hydrocarbons formed with it; but inasmuch as oil is not an economical source of carbon for the production of water gas, this would probably make the cost of production higher than necessary. Many forms of generator have been used in the United States for the production of water gas, which, after or during manufacture, is mixed with the vapors and permanent gases obtained by cracking various grades of paraffin oil, and fixing them by subjecting them to a high temperature; and in considering the subject of enrichment of coal gas by carbureted water gas, I shall be forced, by the limited time at my disposal, to confine myself to the most successful of these processes, or those which are already undergoing trial in this country. keywords: battery; carbon; cent; cotton; diameter; dynamite; end; explosives; fact; feet; fig; gas; gelatine; gun; illustration; inch; instrument; integraph; iron; long; new; oil; place; plaster; plates; point; pounds; powder; present; process; results; shell; steel; time; use; water; water gas; wheel; work; | | cache: 15708.txt plain text: 15708.txt item: #36 of 151 id: 15833 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. date: None words: 39847 flesch: 63 summary: Oxygen | Combustion at 32° F.| | Analyses | required +--------+------------+ | of 1 lb. | feet. keywords: = =; acid; air; apparatus; axis; carbon; case; cent; combustion; current; direction; energy; experiments; fig; form; fuel; furnace; heat; illustration; iron; machine; means; motion; new; order; peroxide; place; pressure; prism; quantity; results; temperature; time; train; water; wheel; work; | | cache: 15833.txt plain text: 15833.txt item: #37 of 151 id: 15889 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 date: None words: 39553 flesch: 61 summary: Jean Martin Charcot, the renowned neurologist of the Parisian Salpetriere, without exactly desiring it, was led into the study of artificial somnambulism by his careful experiments in reference to hysteria, and especially by the question of _metallotherapie_, and in the year 1879 had prepared suitable demonstrations, which were given in public lectures at the Salpetriere. The cotton plant principally cultivated in Japan is of the species known as _Gossypium herbaceum_, resembling that of India, China, and Egypt. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; basket; body; carbonic; center; centrifugal; cotton; course; cream; crystals; electricity; feet; fig; force; form; gas; heat; illustration; inches; iron; machine; material; means; milk; motion; new; number; oil; pat; phenomena; place; point; present; pressure; process; resistance; results; salt; second; subject; sugar; time; tube; use; water; work; years cache: 15889.txt plain text: 15889.txt item: #38 of 151 id: 16256 author: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller title: The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste date: None words: 86872 flesch: 56 summary: Under Scientific Management, work time and rest time are scientifically apportioned. Such teaching Scientific Management is prepared to give. keywords: = =; attention; card; day; definition; effect; elements; fact; good; importance; individual; individuality; instruction; knowledge; management; measurement; methods; mind; motion; new; output; place; planning; psychology; records; relation; results; reward; shop management; standard; standardization; study; system; task; taylor; teaching; time; time study; transitory; use; value; way; welfare work; work; worker cache: 16256.txt plain text: 16256.txt item: #39 of 151 id: 16270 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 date: None words: 36150 flesch: 67 summary: | | Number | Cost of | Cost of | Total |Average| |Changed.| Labor. | Cost. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; cars; case; cent; change; chemical; circuit; compounds; current; cylinder; day; fig; footnote; force; gas; hours; illustration; iron; labor; means; men; necessary; new; oxygen; place; plants; power; present; speed; steam; time; total; track; use; water; way; wheels; work; | cost; | engines; | | cache: 16270.txt plain text: 16270.txt item: #40 of 151 id: 16353 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 date: None words: 31452 flesch: 67 summary: Rar., ii., p. 4, t. 106; D.C. Prodr., xvi., ii., 127. ======================================================================= | Number of | Average | Running | Trains. keywords: = =; = |; air; american; apparatus; battery; copper; current; diameter; drain; earth; end; feet; fig; figures; footnote; form; ground; hornbeam; house; illustration; inches; iron; means; miles; new; number; order; oxide; pipe; place; point; poison; refuse; results; south; surface; system; time; water; western; work; | =; | | cache: 16353.txt plain text: 16353.txt item: #41 of 151 id: 16354 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 date: None words: 38618 flesch: 62 summary: The greatest reduction of the mortality by the execution of proper sewerage and water works took place in Danzig, on the Baltic, and Linz, on the Danube, where after the execution of the works the mortality was reduced by 7.85 and 10.17 per 1,000 respectively, and in the case of Danzig this reduction is almost exclusively in zymotic diseases. Thus an actual current of water is produced in straits and narrow channels; and it is always important to distinguish between the tide wave, as bringing high water, and the tidal stream--between the rise and fall of the tide and the flow and ebb. keywords: american; apparatus; car; case; charge; coal; cocoons; cotton; end; engine; evans; fig; filament; form; furnace; gas; gold; high; illustration; means; motion; new; number; order; place; plates; power; present; pressure; process; reeling; silk; size; steam; system; thread; time; use; water; wave; work cache: 16354.txt plain text: 16354.txt item: #42 of 151 id: 16360 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 date: None words: 43702 flesch: 70 summary: | +------+-------+------ 1 | Etruria. | 6 | 5 | 31 2 | Umbria (sister ship). keywords: \| |; acid |; air; bag; burner; castle |; coal; fig; gas; glass |; inches; iodide |; matter |; new; normandie |; rome |; solution; s³ |; | ----------------+--------+---------+---------+-------+-------------+; | alaska; | aller; | america; | ammonia; | ammonium; | arizona; | aurania; | calcium; | chlorides; | city; | d; | elbe; | etruria; | furnessia; | hydrochloric; | molec; | nitrate; | pembroke; | potassium; | precipitate; | pyrogallic; | residue; | servia; | sodium; | sulphates; | water; | |; | |/1; | |/3; | |coefficient| cache: 16360.txt plain text: 16360.txt item: #43 of 151 id: 16671 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 date: None words: 36431 flesch: 66 summary: This interference with the ordinary action of _hæmoglobin_ constituted poisoning by carbonic oxide. The rule is that _Cercomonas typica_ or its congener precedes other forms, that not only succeed them in promoting and carrying to a still further point the putrescence of the fermenting substance, but appear to be aided in the accomplishment of this by mechanical means. keywords: action; air; case; concrete; end; estrade; fact; feet; fig; flowers; form; general; great; illustration; life; loop; machine; mass; material; means; new; oil; paper; place; point; poison; process; set; subject; timber; time; tree; use; water; way; wheels; wood; work; years; | | cache: 16671.txt plain text: 16671.txt item: #44 of 151 id: 16773 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 date: None words: 29384 flesch: 68 summary: |Threads | Diameter | Area of | Width | | of | per | at root of | Bolt at | of | | Screw. For comparison he gives the following numbers obtained with one gramme of the more common adulterants: ----------------+----------+----------+---------+--------+ | To | To | Total | | |neutralize| convert |saponifi-| | | the acid.|the ether.| cation. keywords: .0208 |; .0312 |; .0500 |; air; apparatus; current; dust; electric; fig; heat; illustration; liquid; metals; oil; paint; surface; temperature; thermo; time; water; wax |; work; | ----------------+----------+----------+---------+--------+; | .0178; | .0250; | .0277; | .0413; | 101/4; | diam; | finish; | ness; | screw; | |; | |________|________|_________________|_________|_______| cache: 16773.txt plain text: 16773.txt item: #45 of 151 id: 16792 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 date: None words: 38047 flesch: 66 summary: A number of gas engines--such as Bisschop's (much used for very small powers), Robson's (at present undergoing transformation in the able hands of Messrs. Tangye), Korting's, and others--are in use; but, so far as I can learn, all require a larger quantity of gas than those previously referred to. It is not alone that flies and other small insects are overpowered by the fluid which exudes from the cord in question. keywords: air; aluminum; apparatus; carbon; case; cent; coal; current; depth; engine; eutectic; feet; fig; form; furnace; gas; heat; illustration; inches; iron; length; level; means; melting; mixture; point; power; present; pressure; shaft; steam; temperature; time; use; water cache: 16792.txt plain text: 16792.txt item: #46 of 151 id: 16948 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 date: None words: 39620 flesch: 65 summary: | I. |II. | VII.|VIII. keywords: acid; air; ammonia; apparatus; arabian; blood; breeding; cable; cent; cloud; cost; country; day; diameter; electricity; end; feet; gas; government; horse; illustration; means; method; new; oil; place; power; present; process; salt; solution; steam; temperature; test; time; trees; tube; urine; use; water; work; years; | consumption; | firing; | | cache: 16948.txt plain text: 16948.txt item: #47 of 151 id: 16972 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 date: None words: 40269 flesch: 62 summary: Next to the aspen and poplars comes the canoe birch, and further north the yellow birch, and such other trees as have provision for scattering their seeds. When a pine forest is burned over, both trees and seeds are destroyed, and as the burned trees cannot sprout from the stump like oaks and many other trees, the land is left in a condition well suited for the germination of tree seeds, but there are no seeds to germinate. keywords: acid; action; air; american; bath; case; circuit; coil; conductor; current; cut; development; direction; effect; energy; extracts; field; fig; force; general; gibraltar; glass; illustration; iron; light; lines; magnetism; matter; motor; new; number; paper; paraffine; place; potential; power; section; silver; solution; time; tobacco; trees; turpentine; use; water; wire; work cache: 16972.txt plain text: 16972.txt item: #48 of 151 id: 17167 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 date: None words: 39013 flesch: 62 summary: Indeed, thus far, although the circumstances were striking, there was nothing to prevent astronomers from interpreting them as other cases of coincident, or nearly coincident, cometic paths had been interpreted. The only reason why this burner has not been further perfected and placed upon the market is because of the continual preoccupation of Prof. Lowe in other lines of invention, and the amount of attention required by his large business interests. keywords: air; architectural; building; cane; case; cell; comet; course; cylinder; design; end; expression; fig; form; heat; illustration; juice; light; lines; liquid; metal; new; number; pipe; place; plan; portion; pressure; process; steam; stresses; sugar; time; wall; water; way; work; years; | | cache: 17167.txt plain text: 17167.txt item: #49 of 151 id: 17755 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 date: None words: 43492 flesch: 62 summary: I give you a rough drawing of the hydraulic hammer, or strictly speaking a _press_, used by Messrs. Vickers in forging down the ingots in shafts, guns, or other large work. This explains itself if we consider that there is only a very small amount of ammonia and hydrochloric acid diffused through a very large volume of other gases, so that the very peculiar protective action which the hydrochloric acid does exercise in retarding the dissociation of ammonia in ammonium chloride vapor, where an atom of ammonia is always in contact with an atom of hydrochloric acid, will be diminished almost to zero in such a dilute gas where the atoms of hydrochloric acid and ammonia will only rarely come into immediate contact with each other. keywords: acid; air; ammonia; apparatus; cent; electric; electricity; experiments; fibers; fig; form; fuel; gas; good; heat; illustration; iron; light; line; long; material; means; model; new; nitrogen; oil; ozone; present; process; quantity; shaft; speed; steam; steel; temperature; time; tons; use; vessel; water; waves; way; work; years cache: 17755.txt plain text: 17755.txt item: #50 of 151 id: 17817 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 date: None words: 36121 flesch: 63 summary: And applicable to all the three industries of the fitting shop, the boiler shop, and the smith's shop, and also to that other industry carried on in the foundry, are the traveling and swing cranes, commonly worked by shafting, or by quick moving ropes for the travelers, and by hydraulic power or by steam engines for the swing cranes. I remember tide mills on the coast between Brighton and Newhaven, another between Greenwich and Woolwich, another at Northfleet, and in many other places. keywords: air; apparatus; boiler; caloric; cent; combustion; current; electric; electricity; end; engine; fig; force; gas; house; iron; light; machine; matter; means; plate; pounds; power; present; pressure; process; purposes; rest; saw; static; steam; steel; sugar; system; time; tool; use; water; way; work; working; years cache: 17817.txt plain text: 17817.txt item: #51 of 151 id: 18265 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 date: None words: 34294 flesch: 62 summary: There was beginning to be a good demand for ground-up rubber car springs, wringer rolls, tubing and other rubber goods free from fiber, after it had been so treated as to remove the sulphur contents and restore the gum to a workable condition. Many army blankets, made for the government during the civil war, were waterproofed with Hall's devulcanized rubber, and from that period little new rubber has been used in the manufacture of heavy rubber coats. keywords: acid; american; business; case; central; claim; combination; cost; culture; current; day; electric; elements; fact; factor; gas; good; illustration; interest; invention; inventor; load; machine; man; material; means; new; objects; patent; period; power; result; rubber; sheep; states; station; steam; system; time; united; use; water; work; year cache: 18265.txt plain text: 18265.txt item: #52 of 151 id: 18345 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 date: None words: 37714 flesch: 64 summary: | B | 15 to 18| 3.00 | 10 to 8 | scarcely|About |} Medium Quality | C | 15 to 10| 3.25 | 8 to 6 | percep- |0.100.|} | D | 5 to 10| 3.50 | 4 to 6 | tible. --Sand bending.--Bending with balls or bobbins.--Three-ball or lead driving ball and double ball bending.--Bending with windlass and brass ball.--Hydraulic or cup leather and ball bending.--Bending by splitting, or split made bends. keywords: acid; action; air; apparatus; arc; armature; bend; carbon; circuit; copper; current; direction; electric; electro; end; fig; good; half; illustration; iron; light; machine; magnet; manganese; means; method; motion; pipe; point; position; pound; results; ring; sugar; time; use; water; way; work; | | cache: 18345.txt plain text: 18345.txt item: #53 of 151 id: 18763 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 date: None words: 33307 flesch: 65 summary: They, in great part, take up the energy of the ether-waves, whereby their union is severed, and the building materials of the molecules are scattered abroad. It seems to us, however, that in the noisy concert of acclamations that echoed during the days of the fêtes over the inauguration of the line, a less modest place might have been made for those who, with invincible tenacity and rare talent, directed the technical part of the work, and especially those 15 kilometers of colossal boring--the great St. Gothard Tunnel, which ranks in the history of great public works side by side with the piercing of the Frejus, and the marvelous digging of Suez and Panama. keywords: acid; alcohol; apparatus; atoms; blue; board; case; cent; favre; flour; frame; gas; glass; heat; inches; iron; large; light; molecules; motion; new; number; oil; paper; plate; power; present; pressure; printing; process; surface; time; tube; use; vapor; velocity; vibrations; water; waves; work cache: 18763.txt plain text: 18763.txt item: #54 of 151 id: 18866 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 39044 flesch: 72 summary: By G. W. W., W. A. A., G. H. F. House Warming. (17) J. W. will find full directions for canning corn, etc., on p. 394 (4), vol. keywords: address; air; american; article; bar; best; co.; cooper; cost; country; day; door; engine; english; fig; free; furnace; gary; good; great; hand; heat; illustration; invention; iron; light; line; lock; machine; machinery; magnet; manufacturers; new; new york; number; paper; patent; pen; pole; power; present; price; scientific; send; steam; street; time; use; water; wire; work; world; writing; years; york cache: 18866.txt plain text: 18866.txt item: #55 of 151 id: 19180 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 41577 flesch: 73 summary: Families supplied and canvassers appointed, by Montgomery & Co., 42 Barclay st., New York, or Cleveland, O. All parties wanting a water wheel will learn something of interest by addressing P. H. Wait, Sandy Hill, N. Y., for a free circular of his Hudson River Champion Turbine. And Re-Sawing Machines, Wood and Iron Working Machinery, Engines, Boilers, etc. JOHN B. SCHENCK & SON, Matteawan, N. Y., and 118 Liberty st., New York. keywords: address; american; assignor; boston; car; case; circular; city; co.; conn; end; ends; engine; experiments; free; half; hand; illustration; inches; invention; iron; lead; length; line; machine; machinery; manufacturers; mass; new; new york; number; oak; ohio; paper; park; patent; philadelphia; power; price; process; rope; silk; square; state; steam; steel; strands; time; use; water; way; weight; wood; work; years; york cache: 19180.txt plain text: 19180.txt item: #56 of 151 id: 19406 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 41388 flesch: 72 summary: * * * PUNCHING PRESSES Drop Hammers and Dies, for working Metals, &c. THE STILES & PARKER PRESS CO., Middletown, Conn. AMERICAN ENAMEL CO. 17 WARREN ST., PROVIDENCE, R.I. * * keywords: acid; address; air; american; black; blue; business; case; cents; city; co.; copy; country; cut; cutting; day; end; engine; feet; fig; gas; general; glass; good; illustrated; illustration; invention; iron; lathes; light; machine; machinery; man; means; men; n.y; new; new york; number; office; paper; papin; parts; patent; place; power; present; price; rays; scientific; screw; set; states; steam; steel; street; surface; time; use; vol; water; way; white; wire; wood; work; year; york cache: 19406.txt plain text: 19406.txt item: #57 of 151 id: 19533 author: Macomber, Hattie E. title: Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison date: None words: 16502 flesch: 94 summary: So Mr. Morse made his first voyage across the Atlantic. Mr. Morse wished to become a student in the Royal Academy. keywords: boy; cotton; day; father; fulton; good; man; money; morse; new; people; thought; time; whitney; work; years; york cache: 19533.txt plain text: 19533.txt item: #58 of 151 id: 20064 author: Parton, James title: Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money date: None words: 92725 flesch: 70 summary: Peter Cooper was a man quite out of the common order even of good men. At present, the favorite spot is Colorado; awhile ago it was California; and old men remember when Buffalo was about as far west as the most enterprising person thought of venturing. keywords: age; boston; boy; business; character; children; church; city; clock; country; course; day; days; dollars; end; engine; england; english; family; farm; father; fire; free; french; good; half; hand; head; home; hours; house; john; kind; labor; life; london; making; man; men; miles; mind; money; months; morning; new; office; old; paper; people; peter; place; pounds; public; school; service; set; sir; son; steam; success; things; thought; time; town; trade; war; water; way; week; work; world; years; york; young cache: 20064.txt plain text: 20064.txt item: #59 of 151 id: 21081 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 40065 flesch: 72 summary: (9) W. H. C. asks: Is there any way of deadening the noise of machinery overhead from the engine room below? (19) J. H. asks: Which would be the strongest, two 2-inch by 4-inch joists nailed together, or one 4-inch by 4-inch joist? keywords: address; air; american; apparatus; boston; business; case; catalogue; city; co.; cylinder; end; engine; feet; foot; form; glass; half; heat; ice; illustrated; illustration; inches; invention; iron; knowledge; leaf; length; light; line; machine; machinery; manufacturers; new; new york; number; nut; office; oil; paper; piston; place; power; pressure; price; scientific; small; steam; street; time; use; valve; vessel; water; wheel; work; year; york cache: 21081.txt plain text: 21081.txt item: #60 of 151 id: 21225 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 date: None words: 33770 flesch: 67 summary: Less water would not have been sufficient, and, of course, by using more water, the temperature could have been kept lower, or with the same temperature the watts absorbed could have been increased. The current carrying capacity, 0.3 ampere per square inch, was more than double, and the energy absorbed 183 watts per cubic inch, more than six times as great as in case where running water was not used. keywords: air; american; camels; cause; cent; character; country; current; day; degrees; end; english; feet; fig; illustration; inch; inches; india; line; machine; man; medical; miles; new; number; oil; order; pages; parts; patterns; plate; present; rubber; sand; solution; square; states; suakim; surface; temperature; time; trees; united; use; water; way; work; years; york cache: 21225.txt plain text: 21225.txt item: #61 of 151 id: 22683 author: Cresee, Franklin Allison title: Practical Pointers for Patentees date: None words: 35214 flesch: 51 summary: |---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- | $1,000 | $5,000 | $10,000 | $15,000 | $20,000 -----------------+---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- Maine | 35 | 175 | 350 | 500 | 700 New Hampshire | 30 | 150 | 300 | 450 | 600 Vermont | 30 | 150 | 300 | 450 | 600 Massachusetts | 50 | 225 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 Rhode Island | 20 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 Connecticut | 35 | 175 | 350 | 500 | 700 New York | 65 | 300 | 650 | 950 | 1,200 Pennsylvania | 65 | 300 | 650 | 950 | 1,200 New Jersey | 40 | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 +---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- N. ATLANTIC | $370 | $1,775 | $3,700 | $5,450 |$7,200 DIVISION | | | | | -----------------+---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- TABLES FOR ESTIMATING PRICES OF STATE RIGHTS--_Continued_ -----------------+-------------------------------------------------- STATES AND | PRICE AS A WHOLE. TERRITORIES. |---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- | $1,000 | $5,000 | $10,000 | $15,000 | $20,000 -----------------+---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- Delaware | 20 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 Maryland | 40 | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 District of | 15 | 75 | 150 | 200 | 300 Columbia | | | | | Virginia | 35 | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 West Virginia | 35 | 175 | 300 | 500 | 700 North Carolina | 35 | 150 | 300 | 450 | 600 South Carolina | 35 | 150 | 350 | 500 | 700 Georgia | 40 | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 Florida | 15 | 75 | 150 | 200 | 300 +---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- S. ATLANTIC | $270 | $1,325 | $2,700 | $3,950 |$5,400 DIVISION | | | | | | | | | | Ohio | 60 | 300 | 600 | 900 | 1,100 Indiana | 55 | 275 | 550 | 800 | 1,000 Illinois | 65 | 300 | 650 | 950 | 1,200 Michigan | 45 | 200 | 350 | 600 | 800 Wisconsin | 40 | 150 | 275 | 400 | 500 Minnesota | 45 | 200 | 350 | 600 | 800 Iowa | 40 | 175 | 350 | 500 | 700 Missouri | 45 | 225 | 450 | 650 | 900 North Dakota | 25 | 75 | 150 | 200 | 300 South Dakota | 30 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 Nebraska | 30 | 150 | 300 | 450 | 600 Kansas | 40 | 175 | 300 | 500 | 700 +---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- N. CENTRAL | $485 | $2,325 | $4,525 | $6,850 |$9,000 DIVISION | | | | | -----------------+---------+---------+----------+----------+-------- TABLES FOR ESTIMATING PRICES OF STATE RIGHTS--_Continued_ -----------------+-------------------------------------------------- STATES AND | PRICE AS A WHOLE. keywords: article; assignment; business; case; chapter; co.; company; consideration; county; franklin; grant; improvements; interest; invention; inventor; jackson; jefferson; john; letters patent; license; lincoln; madison; makers; manufacture; manufacturing; mass; means; miles; money; new; number; ohio; parties; party; patent; patent rights; patentee; price; rights; royalty; sale; san; selling; sidenote; states; stock; time; total; united; use; value; washington; way; work; working; year; | st; | | cache: 22683.txt plain text: 22683.txt item: #62 of 151 id: 22684 author: Hawaii title: Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii and Rules of Practice in the Patent Office date: None words: 8393 flesch: 51 summary: Whenever any patent is inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective or insufficient specification, or by reason of the patentee claiming as his own invention or discovery more than he had a right to claim as new, if the error has arisen by inadvertance, accident or mistake, and without any fraudulent or deceptive intention, the Minister of the Interior shall, on the surrender of such patent and the payment of the same fees required by law upon the issue of an original or first patent, cause a new patent for the same invention, and in accordance with the corrected specification, to be issued to the patentee, or, in the case of his death, or of an assignment of the whole or any undivided part of the original patent, then to his executors, administrators, or assigns, for the unexpired part of the term of the original patent. But every patent granted for an invention which has been previously patented in a foreign country, shall be so limited that it shall not continue longer than the time of the expiration of such foreign patent, or if there are several foreign patents, it shall not continue longer than the time of the expiration of the one with the shortest unexpired term, and in no case shall it be in force more than fifteen years. keywords: act; applicant; application; interior; patent; print; section cache: 22684.txt plain text: 22684.txt item: #63 of 151 id: 22685 author: United States. Patent Office title: The Classification of Patents date: None words: 20415 flesch: 51 summary: (4) Where it appears that the subject matter of any bundle formed from the patents of any subclass is analogous to matter in other subclasses of the same class or in other classes, a note should be added to that effect so that this matter may be given special consideration. After definitions have been made and printed, they are sometimes found inadequate and must be supplemented by the definitions of other classes. keywords: arrangement; arts; basis; claims; class; classes; classification; cross; invention; matter; number; patent; process; search; species; subclass; subject cache: 22685.txt plain text: 22685.txt item: #64 of 151 id: 22847 author: Higinbotham, H. D. title: Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition date: None words: 3578 flesch: 69 summary: Horticultural Building, with Illinois Building in the background. PLATE 2--NORTHERN FACADE OF LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. keywords: -the; arts; building; exhibit; exposition; manufactures; midway; new; plate; village; world cache: 22847.txt plain text: 22847.txt item: #65 of 151 id: 23319 author: Rose, Joshua title: Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing; together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers date: None words: 71078 flesch: 70 summary: Draw also the diagonal lines A 1, _a_ 2, B 3, and so on; then the distances from the line A C to the points of intersection of the diagonals with the horizontal lines represent hundredths of an inch. Suppose, for example, we trace one diagonal line in its path across the figure, taking that which starts from A and ends at 1 on the top horizontal line; then where the diagonal intersects _horizontal_ line 1, is 99/100 from the line B D, and 1/100 from the line A C, while where it intersects _horizontal_ line 2, is 98/100 from line B D, and 2/100 from line A C, and so on. There now remain the bottoms of the thread to draw, and this is done by drawing lines from the bottom of the thread on one side of the bolt to the bottom on the other, as shown in the cut by a dotted line; hence, we may set a square blade to that angle, and mark in these lines, as 26, 27, 28, etc., and the thread is pencilled in complete. keywords: 12mo; 8vo; angle; arc; arcs; centre line; circle; construction; cross; curves; cut; degrees; diameter; drawing; edge; end; engravings; equal; face; figure; half; hand; head; illustrated; illustration; ink; length; line; line b; mark; motion; paper; pen; pencil; piece; pitch; point; position; practical; radius; right; rod; shading; sides; square; steam; teeth; thread; use; view cache: 23319.txt plain text: 23319.txt item: #66 of 151 id: 25822 author: Anonymous title: Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls date: None words: 39312 flesch: 83 summary: They are often very quarrelsome, and will peck at each other in a way that little birds should not. You are just in time to see the retorts opened, said he, and led the way directly into a large and very dingy room, along one side of which was built out a sort of huge iron cupboard with several little iron doors. keywords: august; birds; city; cut; day; editor; eggs; end; feet; fig; gas; half; head; home; house; illustration; light; look; mamma; man; men; new; news; number; paper; place; room; saw; set; snow; things; time; type; umbrella; water; way; work cache: 25822.txt plain text: 25822.txt item: #67 of 151 id: 27238 author: Welsh, Peter C. title: Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 date: None words: 13280 flesch: 65 summary: This English influence on American tool design is no surprise, since as early as 1634 William Wood in _New England's Prospect_ suggested that colonists take to the New World All manner of Ironwares, as all manner of nailes for houses ... The Mechanic's Companion_ (figs. 8, 9, and 10), the all-too-familiar definition of carpentry as the art of employing timber in the construction of buildings suggests very little of the carpenter's actual work or the improvement in tool design that had occurred since Moxon's _Exercises_. keywords: 19th; american; bench; brace; carpenter; century; design; english; figure; form; hand; illustration; iron; moxon; new; patent; photo; plane; saw; smithsonian; tools; u.s; wood cache: 27238.txt plain text: 27238.txt item: #68 of 151 id: 27662 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 date: None words: 36970 flesch: 62 summary: Other great men had also appeared, such as Leibnitz and Huyghens; and it became very clear that the methods of investigation which had borne such fruit in the days of Galileo were not disposed of completely by his unwilling recantation; it became very clear that the new civilization which was dawning upon Europe was not destined to the rude fate which had overwhelmed the brilliant scientific achievements of the Spanish Moors of a half century before. We look to others, especially to what we call great men, for thoughts, suggestions, and opinions, and gladly adopt them on their authority. keywords: acid; action; air; apparatus; block; bodies; body; canal; case; construction; creusot; direction; electricity; experiments; fact; feet; fig; form; hammer; hand; illustration; iron; light; like; man; means; new; office; oil; patent; phenomena; pine; place; power; railway; surface; time; tons; type; use; water; way; wood; work; years cache: 27662.txt plain text: 27662.txt item: #69 of 151 id: 27667 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 date: None words: 38274 flesch: 63 summary: Ice frozen by either of the above described methods from ordinary water is more or less opaque, owing to the air liberated during the freezing process, little bubbles of which are caught in the ice as it forms, and in order to produce transparent ice it is necessary that the water should be agitated during the freezing process in such a way as to permit the air bubbles to escape. For coating large plates it is divided in the center, so as to adapt itself somewhat to irregularities in the surface of each plate. keywords: air; ammonia; arches; building; cent; construction; eyes; fig; fire; floor; form; gothic; heat; light; machine; means; mill; mines; new; oil; order; place; plan; plates; pressure; process; room; sulphur; temperature; time; use; value; vaulting; walls; water; work; | | cache: 27667.txt plain text: 27667.txt item: #70 of 151 id: 27867 author: Various title: Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements date: None words: 21054 flesch: 73 summary: This is very convenient for turners, whose business requires at some times a rapid speed of the mandrill, and at other times a slow or gentle motion. _Troy_ says, Now give me a chance. keywords: american; application; common; feet; head; homeward; inches; invention; iron; machine; new; office; paper; patent; plods; ploughman; power; public; railroad; right; scientific; square; states; time; use; water; way; weary; wheel; years; york cache: 27867.txt plain text: 27867.txt item: #71 of 151 id: 28553 author: Williams, Archibald title: How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use date: None words: 76322 flesch: 74 summary: glass convex element, B, and a concave element, A, of _flint_ glass. The number of vibrations is inversely proportional to the _length_ of the string: thus, a one-foot string would vibrate twice as fast as a two-foot string, strained to the same tension, and of equal diameter and weight. keywords: air; boiler; box; case; circuit; coil; current; cylinder; direction; distance; electric; end; engine; eye; fig; force; form; gas; gear; glass; heat; illustration; image; inch; key; left; length; lens; lever; line; magnet; number; object; pass; passes; pipe; piston; point; position; power; pressure; rays; right; rod; round; section; shaft; signals; speed; spring; steam; surface; train; tube; valve; water; wheel; wire cache: 28553.txt plain text: 28553.txt item: #72 of 151 id: 2900 author: Thompson, Holland title: The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest date: None words: 53136 flesch: 66 summary: The supposed economic necessity of slave labor led great men to defend slavery, and politics in the South became largely the defense of slavery against the aggression, real or fancied, of the free North. After one or two disastrous business experiences, such as fall to the lot of many great inventors, perhaps to test their perseverance, Watt associated himself with Matthew Boulton, a man of capital and of enterprise, owner of the Soho Engineering Works, near Birmingham. keywords: age; air; american; benjamin; business; charles; cotton; country; day; days; dollars; early; edison; electricity; engine; england; experiments; father; franklin; fulton; general; goodyear; henry; howe; industry; invention; inventor; james; john; later; life; london; machine; machinery; making; man; manufacture; men; mind; money; morse; new; new england; new york; patent; philadelphia; power; rubber; set; south; states; steam; stevens; story; telegraph; time; today; united; use; war; washington; way; whitney; work; world; years; york; young cache: 2900.txt plain text: 2900.txt item: #73 of 151 id: 29241 author: None title: Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery date: None words: 41737 flesch: 59 summary: He knew that the wire which carried an electric current was an electrified body, and still that all attempts had failed to make it excite in other wires a state similar to its own. In the autumn of 1831 he began to repeat the experiments with electric currents, which, up to that time, had produced no positive result. keywords: battery; boiler; cable; circuit; copper; current; day; distance; effect; electricity; electro; end; engine; experiments; faraday; fig; fire; form; heat; illustration; iron; length; light; line; magnet; magnetic; man; means; miles; motion; new; paper; power; professor; rays; steam; telegraph; telephone; time; tube; water; way; wire cache: 29241.txt plain text: 29241.txt item: #74 of 151 id: 29411 author: Various title: Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements date: None words: 19981 flesch: 65 summary: We do not believe that such men as Benton, Calhoun, and other kindred spirits, ask or desire anything but what they think is right. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall appear to the Commissioner that any patent was destroyed by the burning of the Patent Office building on the aforesaid fifteenth day of December, or was otherwise lost prior thereto, it shall be his duty, on application therefor by the patentee, or other persons interested therein, to issue a new patent for the same invention or discovery, bearing the date of the original patent, with his certificate thereon, that it was made and issued pursuant to the provisions of the third section of this act; and shall enter the same of record; Provided, however, That before such patent shall be issued, the applicant therefor shall deposit in the Patent Office keywords: american; city; commissioner; day; earth; feet; half; hours; illustration; improvement; invention; inventor; iron; july; man; mass; new; office; paper; patent; place; present; scientific; sec; state; sun; surface; time; united; use; water; work; york cache: 29411.txt plain text: 29411.txt item: #75 of 151 id: 31179 author: Chapelle, Howard Irving title: Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran date: None words: 16248 flesch: 67 summary: In a treatise on steam vessels, published in Scotland at that time, the author states that he has taken great care to procure _full_ and _accurate_ information of the Steam Frigate launched in New York, and which he describes in the following words:-- Length on deck, _three hundred feet_; breadth, _two hundred feet_; thickness of her sides, _thirteen feet_ of alternate oak plank and cork wood--carries forty-four guns, four of which are _hundred pounders_; quarter-deck and forecastle guns, forty-four pounders; and further to annoy an enemy attempting to board, can discharge _one hundred gallons of boiling water in a minute_, and by mechanism, brandishes _three hundred cutlasses_ with the utmost regularity over her gunwales; works also an equal number of heavy iron pikes of great length, darting them from her sides with prodigious force, and withdrawing them every quarter of a minute!! [INDEX] [Illustration: Figure 1.--SCALE MODEL of Fulton's _Steam Battery_ in the Museum of History and Technology. keywords: battery; deck; drawing; engine; feet; figure; foot; fulton; gun; guns; history; hull; illustration; museum; naval; navy; new; paddle; plans; ship; steam; steam battery; vessel; war; wheel; york cache: 31179.txt plain text: 31179.txt item: #76 of 151 id: 31243 author: Sutherland, George title: Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast date: None words: 74182 flesch: 64 summary: Delicate _pianissimo_ effects, somewhat resembling those of the Eolian lyre, are produced by playing the notes with the air-blast alone, without the aid of percussion. With 84 Diagrams. 8vo., 5_s._ 6_d._ net. keywords: air; apparatus; case; century; cheap; chemistry; college; course; crown 8vo; current; diagrams; direction; doubt; electric; elementary; end; energy; engine; extent; f.r.s; fact; fcp; force; form; future; general; heat; illustrations; kind; light; line; m.a; m.d; machinery; man; means; motion; motor; net; new; nineteenth; ore; place; point; power; practical; present; principle; professor; progress; public; purposes; road; royal; science; set; speed; steam; steel; system; time; turbine; type; use; water; wave; way; wheel; wind; wire; woodcuts; work; working; years cache: 31243.txt plain text: 31243.txt item: #77 of 151 id: 32282 author: Vogel, Robert M. title: Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower, 1889 date: None words: 13806 flesch: 58 summary: [Illustration: Figure 24.--General arrangement of Otis elevator system in Eiffel Tower. Significant use of electricity in this field occurred somewhat later, and in a manner parallel to that by which steam was first applied to the elevator--the driving of mechanical (belt driven) elevator machines by individual motors. keywords: cables; car; design; eiffel; eiffel tower; elevator; feet; figure; hydraulic; illustration; otis; paris; platform; rope; safety; system; time; tower; water cache: 32282.txt plain text: 32282.txt item: #78 of 151 id: 32482 author: Multhauf, Robert P. title: The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments date: None words: 8178 flesch: 51 summary: Meteorological instruments have been for the most part treated like toys, and much time and labor have been lost in making and recording observations utterly useless for any scientific purpose. By 1900 these simple and inexpensive instruments had relegated to the scrap pile, unfortunately literally, the elegant products of the mass attack of observatory directors in the 1860's on the problem of the self-registering thermometer and barometer.[34] Conclusions In view of the rarity of special studies on the history of meteorological instruments, it is impossible to claim that this brief review has neglected no important instruments, and conclusions as to the lineage of the late 19th century instruments can only be tentatively drawn. keywords: barometer; century; clock; gauge; hooke; instruments; meteorology; observation; observatory; registering; self; thermometer; time; weather; wind cache: 32482.txt plain text: 32482.txt item: #79 of 151 id: 33146 author: Moffett, Cleveland title: Careers of Danger and Daring date: None words: 104822 flesch: 83 summary: Of course, when I say that the traveler stitches these pieces together, I really mean that the traveler gangs do this, for the big brute booms can only lift things and swing things; the bolt-driving and end-fitting must be done by little men. Certain it is that in summer-time the visitor (and visitors come in swarms) sees fields marked off in rows with stakes and cross-poles, on which balloon-cloth by hundreds of yards seems to be growing (really, it is drying); and other fields, that look like an Eskimo village, with houses of crinkly yellowish stuff (really, half-inflated balloons); and groups of men boiling varnish in great kettles which are always getting on fire and may explode; and other men working nimbly at the knitting of nets; and others experimenting with parachutes; and the professor paddling away at the height of three thousand feet for his afternoon skycycle sail; and Mme. keywords: air; balloon; big; black; boat; boys; bridge; business; cage; car; danger; day; dynamite; elephant; end; engine; eyes; face; feet; fire; foot; going; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; hour; house; illustration; iron; left; legs; life; line; lion; look; man; men; miles; minutes; moment; new; old; people; pilot; place; rapids; red; right; river; rope; run; saw; second; sir; steeple; story; straight; street; swing; tamer; thing; time; train; water; way; wind; work; years cache: 33146.txt plain text: 33146.txt item: #80 of 151 id: 33766 author: Farber, Eduard title: History of Phosphorus date: None words: 10775 flesch: 60 summary: After Gahn, in 1769, recognized the presence of phosphoric acid in bones, Scheele indicated the procedure for making phosphorus from them. Now, however, in the processes of drying and heating certain phosphates, it became clear that three kinds of phosphoric acids could be produced: _ortho_, _pyro_, and _meta_. keywords: acid; chemical; chemistry; compounds; figure; h |; history; illustration; museum; new; page; phosphate; phosphorus; research; states; substance; united; vol; water; | |; | || cache: 33766.txt plain text: 33766.txt item: #81 of 151 id: 33912 author: Vogel, Robert M. title: The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman date: None words: 9277 flesch: 68 summary: The firm had its foundation at least as early as 1855 when advertisements to supply designs and estimates for Bollman bridges appeared over Tegmeyer's name in several railroad journals (see fig. 12). In July and August 1862, two sections of Bollman truss, spans no. 4 and no. 5 were completed. keywords: baltimore; bollman; bridge; ferry; figure; harpers; illustration; iron; museum; ohio; railroad; river; span; truss cache: 33912.txt plain text: 33912.txt item: #82 of 151 id: 34061 author: Chipman, Robert A. title: The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments date: None words: 9634 flesch: 50 summary: [Illustration: Figure 4.--SCHWEIGGER MADE THIS peculiar construction of wire coils, wound endwise on a short vertical section of glass tubing with a compass needle inside, merely to startle his Halle audience with the fact that the compass needle could rest in any of several stable positions. In the succeeding few years, Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution frequently, in his public lectures, showed wires glowing from electric current. keywords: circuit; compass; cumming; effect; electricity; figure; magnetic; multiplier; museum; needle; oersted; paper; poggendorf; schweigger; voltaic; wire cache: 34061.txt plain text: 34061.txt item: #83 of 151 id: 34459 author: Corbin, Thomas W. title: The Romance of War Inventions A Description of Warships, Guns, Tanks, Rifles, Bombs, and Other Instruments and Munitions of Warfare, How They Were Invented & How They Are Employed date: None words: 88994 flesch: 75 summary: All warships are in one sense destroyers, since it is their prime duty to destroy other ships, so why should one particular kind of boat be given this name specially? Its speed is not great, when compared with other ships, but it is constructed to carry enormous guns. keywords: 8vo; action; air; bridge; carbon; case; course; crown 8vo; current; earth; electricity; end; engine; extra; fact; feet; form; good; gun; guns; hand; illustrations; iron; life; light; machine; means; men; metal; modern; moment; oxygen; parachute; place; power; purpose; result; romance; round; second; set; shell; ship; speed; steam; steel; stories; story; submarine; surface; things; time; torpedo; use; war; water; way; weight; wire; work cache: 34459.txt plain text: 34459.txt item: #84 of 151 id: 36768 author: Fyfe, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton) title: Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science date: None words: 70587 flesch: 67 summary: Luca was recognised as one of the first sculptors of the day, and executed a number of great works in bronze and marble. The itch of writing is now so strong in us, we are so constantly writing or receiving letters, our appetite for them is so ravenous, that we wonder how people got on in the days when the postman was the exclusive messenger of the king, and when even majesty was so badly served that, as one old postmaster[D] wrote in self-exculpation of some delay, when placards are sent (to order the immediate forwarding of some state despatches) the constables many times be fayne to take the horses oute of plowes and cartes, wherein, he gravely adds, can be no extreme diligence. keywords: 8vo; arkwright; art; bell; boat; book; cable; century; cloth; country; course; day; days; end; engine; england; enterprise; experiments; family; father; feet; form; good; great; half; hand; hour; house; idea; illustrated; invention; iron; left; length; letters; life; little; london; machine; man; manufacture; means; men; miles; new; night; number; people; place; poor; post; power; price; printing; rock; sea; set; steam; stephenson; system; till; time; trade; use; water; watt; way; work; world; years cache: 36768.txt plain text: 36768.txt item: #85 of 151 id: 36776 author: Doolittle, William Henry title: Inventions in the Century date: None words: 141628 flesch: 61 summary: At the bottom of the penstock is placed a turbine wheel fixed on a shaft, and to which shaft is connected an electric generator or other power machine. The introduction of the linotype and other modern machines into printing offices has without doubt many times reduced and displaced manual labour, and caused at those times at least temporary suffering among employees. keywords: action; ages; air; america; apparatus; application; art; attention; bridge; car; centuries; century; chapter; clay; cloth; coal; construction; cotton; current; cut; cutting; cylinder; day; devices; direction; discoveries; discovery; earth; eighteenth; electric; electricity; end; engine; england; experiments; feet; field; fire; force; form; frame; france; french; furnace; gas; glass; grain; gun; hand; heat; high; hydraulic; idea; improvements; instruments; inventions; inventor; iron; john; labour; leather; light; line; little; locks; london; long; machinery; machines; making; man; manufacture; material; matter; means; men; metal; mills; needle; new; nineteenth; number; operation; paper; parts; patent; pipe; piston; place; power; pressure; principle; printing; process; processes; production; prof; purpose; science; seed; set; sewing; sir; small; spinning; states; steam; steel; stone; supply; system; time; tools; type; united; use; water; way; wheel; wire; wood; work; working; world; years cache: 36776.txt plain text: 36776.txt item: #86 of 151 id: 37574 author: Piercy, Willis Duff title: Great Inventions and Discoveries date: None words: 44163 flesch: 72 summary: The papers have on file, arranged in alphabetical order, photographs of prominent persons and places and biographical sketches of great men, kept up to date. Besides developing the steam engine, Watt made other inventions, including a press for copying letters. keywords: america; books; cable; century; civilization; columbus; cotton; day; days; discovery; early; earth; electric; electricity; engine; england; english; father; field; fire; great; greek; hours; illustration; invention; inventor; iron; life; light; little; machine; making; man; means; men; miles; morse; new; patent; power; printing; states; steam; steel; sun; system; telegraph; time; united; use; way; work; world; years; york cache: 37574.txt plain text: 37574.txt item: #87 of 151 id: 37609 author: Burns, Elmer Ellsworth title: The Story of Great Inventions date: None words: 33746 flesch: 77 summary: This is clear if we compare the flow of electric current with the flow of water. Ampère found that electric currents attract or repel each other, and this because of their magnetic action. keywords: air; balloon; battery; circuit; coil; current; dynamo; electric; engine; england; field; fig; gas; heat; illustration; iron; light; machine; magnet; motor; power; pressure; ship; states; steam; telegraph; telephone; time; united; use; water; waves; wire; work cache: 37609.txt plain text: 37609.txt item: #88 of 151 id: 38045 author: Corbin, Thomas W. title: Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-Technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-Date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and Many Other Recent Discoveries of Science date: None words: 84973 flesch: 68 summary: Of course there are many other places where poisonous gases are likely to be met with, such as gas-works, chemical-works, limeworks, and so on, where this apparatus may be kept with advantage, in case of accident. We now enter for a while the realm of organic chemistry, a branch of knowledge which is of supreme interest, since it covers the matters of which our own bodies are constructed, the foods which we eat and the beverages which we drink, besides a host of other things of great value to us. keywords: action; air; apparatus; case; coal; coil; course; current; distance; effect; electric; end; explosion; fact; form; gas; gold; great; heat; iron; light; line; liquid; little; machine; magnet; man; means; men; metal; oxygen; place; point; power; pressure; process; purpose; red; round; second; set; ship; things; time; turn; use; water; waves; way; wire; work cache: 38045.txt plain text: 38045.txt item: #89 of 151 id: 38067 author: Unknown title: A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense. date: None words: 26608 flesch: 70 summary: THE ART OF MANUFACTURING PAPER HANGINGS.--This business, which has been usually, though improperly termed paper staining, consists principally in stamping or painting various figures in water colours on paper. _District Clerk's Office. keywords: acid; colour; copper; glass; gold; iron; oil; ounce; paper; parts; piece; plate; potass; solution; tin; varnish; water; work cache: 38067.txt plain text: 38067.txt item: #90 of 151 id: 38191 author: Robertson, A. Fraser title: The Boyhood of Great Inventors date: None words: 32230 flesch: 84 summary: He made portraits in china of great men, and fashioned beautiful chimney-pieces. Great men all over the world recorded their astonishment and their praises of the wonderful invention. keywords: arkwright; boy; brain; child; country; day; days; edison; end; engine; england; father; great; heart; home; house; life; little; man; men; mind; money; new; people; place; set; story; thing; time; way; wedgwood; work; world; years; young cache: 38191.txt plain text: 38191.txt item: #91 of 151 id: 38329 author: None title: The Romance of Industry and Invention date: None words: 84832 flesch: 63 summary: We are now entering upon a new era of big ships, in which such a monster as the _Great Eastern_ would be no longer a wonder. This largest vessel afloat does not mark any new departure in general type, as the _Great Eastern_ did in differing from all types of construction then familiar. keywords: america; atlantic; australia; bessemer; boat; british; cape; carats; carrying; case; century; company; cotton; country; course; days; diamond; early; end; engines; england; english; europe; feet; find; form; gold; good; government; gun; guns; half; illustration; india; industry; invention; iron; left; letters; line; london; machine; mail; making; manufacture; means; men; metal; miles; mining; new; number; office; parts; patent; place; post; postage; pounds; power; present; process; railway; round; sailing; sea; service; sheep; ship; sir; size; south; speed; steam; steamer; steel; telegraph; time; tons; trade; use; vessels; water; way; wedgwood; weight; wool; work; working; world; years cache: 38329.txt plain text: 38329.txt item: #92 of 151 id: 38367 author: Knight, Charles title: Knowledge Is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. date: None words: 133534 flesch: 62 summary: and when he chalks a bit of string and stretches it from one end of a plank to the other, to jerk off the chalk from the string, and thus produce an unerring line upon the face of the plank, he makes a little machine which saves him great labour. They used to be drawn close by separate straps of iron applied with great labour. keywords: accumulation; article; capital; century; cheap; cloth; coal; condition; consumption; cost; cotton; country; day; demand; division; employment; end; england; exchange; food; form; general; glass; good; half; hand; having; houses; human; illustration; increase; indians; industry; iron; knowledge; labour; labourers; laws; life; london; machinery; machines; making; man; manufacture; means; men; money; new; number; operation; paper; people; persons; place; poor; population; pounds; power; present; price; principle; produce; production; property; science; silk; skill; society; state; supply; time; tools; trade; use; value; wages; want; water; wool; work; working; world; years cache: 38367.txt plain text: 38367.txt item: #93 of 151 id: 38403 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. date: None words: 44892 flesch: 63 summary: Other gas companies that have adopted the arc system can undoubtedly corroborate this with their experience. Curiously enough, however, in this, as in many other cases, it happens that what in nature acts to deter animals from eating the plant, with man offers the chief attraction, for it is this very bitter principle (_taraxacin_) which gives to dandelion greens their peculiar flavor, and affords the essential element in the extract which physicians prescribe. keywords: apparatus; arc; beam; bladder; boat; case; current; electric; end; examination; eyes; fact; fig; form; gas; heat; hydraulic; illustration; inch; iron; lamp; light; means; method; mill; near; new; order; paper; place; plant; point; position; power; present; pressure; roof; second; square; star; sun; time; torpedo; use; water; way; work; years cache: 38403.txt plain text: 38403.txt item: #94 of 151 id: 38480 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.—No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 42456 flesch: 71 summary: (49) J. W. W. asks: Which will stand the most pressure, a piece of round iron 1 inch long and 1 inch in diameter, or a piece of gas pipe the same dimensions, both being set upon end? (26) J. J. asks: Which tire makes a wheel the strongest, 1.25 x 0.50 inch iron, or 1.25 x 5/16 steel tire? keywords: address; alum; american; boiler; business; cent; city; co.; company; cost; current; day; electric; end; engine; engravings; equal; feet; foot; form; gas; great; horse; illustration; inches; iron; lbs; light; machine; machinery; making; manufacture; means; metal; new; new york; number; office; oil; paper; patent; petroleum; place; power; pressure; price; public; rail; scientific; state; steam; steel; supplement; time; use; water; way; wire; wood; work; world; years; york cache: 38480.txt plain text: 38480.txt item: #95 of 151 id: 38481 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.—No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 43971 flesch: 70 summary: (1) J. H. N., of Christ Church, New Zealand, asks: Is the stearin from which the olein has been extracted by Dr. Mott's process fit to be made at once into good stearin candles, without any further treatment? By J. E. W. On Anti-Water Drinking. keywords: address; air; american; axle; bar; book; case; center; city; co.; copper; country; crank; eccentric; end; ends; engine; feet; fig; form; free; heat; illustration; inches; invention; iron; lead; line; little; machine; machinery; mass; motion; new; number; order; parts; patent; place; position; power; price; scientific; set; size; steam; syrup; table; time; tin; use; valve; water; way; wheel; wood; work; york cache: 38481.txt plain text: 38481.txt item: #96 of 151 id: 38482 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.—No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures date: None words: 31068 flesch: 70 summary: al_ 228,408 Belting and process of manufacture, cotton, M. Gandy 228,186 Belts, lacing, O. C. Pomeroy 228,390 Berth for vessels, self-leveling, D. Huston (r) 9,224 Berth for vessels, self-leveling, C. C. Sanderson 228,278 Berth, self-leveling ship's, C. C. Sanderson 228,279 Binders, knot tyer for self, W. Stephens 228,228 Blacking and polishing boots and shoes, machine for, P. P. Audoye 228,297 Blower, fan, H. Allen 228,293 Bolting tree, J. M. Springer 228,409 Boot and gaiter, rubber, G. H. Sanford 228,398 Bottle, etc., lock, A. T. Boone 228,170 Bottle stopper, E. Hollender 228,355 Bow strings, clutch for, C. M. Beard 228,302 Bracelet, C. E. Hayward 228,348 Bracelet, A. Vester 228,425 Bran cleaner, L. Gathmann 228,340 Brick, pottery, etc., kiln for burning, E. Escherich 228,331 Buckboard, E. Hitt 228,352 Buckle, tug, D. O. Fosgate 228,255 Bumper, W. V. Perry 228,385 Bung, J. H. Stamp 228,227 Button fastener, D. Bainbridge 228,298 Button, sleeve and cuff, H. McDougall 228,370 Buttons, machine for making, W. W. Wade 228,233 Can, D. Bennett 228,167 Can fastening, J. Hall 228,343 Car coupling, Neff & Thalman 228,378 Car coupling, J. F. Stanley 228,411 Car coupling, Morand & Edwards 228,212 Car coupling tool, G. Searl 228,400 Car door bolt, A. W. Zimmerman 228,241 Car wheel, J. A. Woodbury 228,430 Car wheel chill, W. Wilmington 228,428 Cars, bell cord guide for railway, S. L. Finley 228,253 Cars upon railways, running, J. R. Cox 228,176 Carbureting gas and air, W. M. Jackson 228,357 Card teeth, apparatus for tempering wire for, W. F. Bateman 228,301 Carpet fastener, W. Bray 228,306 Carpet lining, G. J. Bicknell 228,168 Carpet sweeper, B. W. Johnson 228,358 Carriage top, E. S. Scripture (r) 9,230 Carriage top rest, G. Miles 228,211 Cartridge shells, machine for drawing, A. C. Hobbs 228,197 Centering machine, J. E. Dimsey 228,249 Chair seats and backs, making, F. D. Newton 228,377 Chandelier, extension, G. Bohner 228,244 Cheese press, M. B. Fraser (r) 9,228 Cheese press, G. F. White 228,291 Cheese vat, J. B. Marquis 228,366 Chuck, J. H. Westcott 228,426 Churn, E. Rhoades (r) 9,225 Clock, alarm, F. Krober 228,202 Clock, calendar, C. S. Lewis 228,261 Clock case, G. Havell 228,193 Cloth pressing machine, P. Miller 228,375 Clutch, W. J. Ray 228,276 Cockle separator, D. Brubaker 228,310 Collar, horse, T. Hepburn 228,351 Commode, A. Climie 228,313 Copying process, dry, Kwaysser & Husak 228,362 Cork tapering machine, F. L. Blair 228,169 Corn husking machine, F. L. Collis 228,174 Corn husking machine roller, E. A. Bourquin 228,305 Corn popper, D. Lumbert 228,205 Cornice, window, H. F. Gray 228,189 Cranks, device for overcoming the dead points of, C. L. Fleischmann 228,185 Crochet needles, manufacture of, J. A. Smith 228,404 Crucible furnaces, hydrocarbon burner for, I. M. Seamans 228,281 Cutlery, pocket, J. W. Ayers 228,163 Danger signal, M. A. Vosburgh 228,232 Diagram for theaters, etc., H. T. Lemon 228,204 Domestic boiler, C. Friedeborn 228,339 Drawing, apparatus for assisting in, W. B. O. Peabody 228,273 Drying apparatus, W. J. Johnson 228,259 Electrotype mould, E. B. Sheldon 228,224 Exercising machine, F. Saunders 228,277 Eyeglasses, J. Schaffer 228,399 Fan, M. Rubin 228,394 Fastening device, E. F. Miller 228,373 Faucet attachment, C. A. Raggio 228,219 Fence nail, wire, E. L. Warren 228,236 Fertilizers, process and apparatus for the manufacture of, W. Plumer 228,387 Firearm, breech-loading, W. H. Baker 228,165 Fluted fabrics, machine for creasing, E. Brosemann 228,309 Fruit basket, H. B. Crandall 228,248 Fuel, process and apparatus for burning pulverized, A. Faber de Faur 228,334 Furnace, B. F. Smith 228,405 Gas, making illuminating, T. J. F. Regan 228,392 Gate, E. J. Clark 228,314 Gate roller, F. W. Holbrook 228,354 Gelatine or ichthyocolla from salted fish skins, extracting, J. S. Rogers (r) 9,226 Glass furnace, T. B. Atterbury 228,296 Glassware, machine for grinding, A. M. Bacon 228,164 Glove fastener, Smith & Hassall 228,403 Governor, elevator, I. H. Small 228,284 Governor for marine engines, W. U. Fairbairn 228,252 Governor for middlings purifiers, etc., feed, W. Donlon 228,180 Grain conveyer, pneumatic, F. A. Luckenbach 228,206 Grain meter, J. B. Stoner 228,229 Grain separator, magnetic, C. E. Fritz (r) 9,229 Grate, fire, E. Moneuse 228,376 Grinding and polishing wheel, G. Hart 228,257 Hammer lifter, drop, C. G. Cross 228,324 Harness, breast, J. W. Cooper 228,175 Harrow, S. A. Bollinger 228,303 Harrow, C. W. Page 228,382 Harvester, Jones & Emerson 228,359 Header, guiding, W. H. Keen 228,260 Heating and ventilating apparatus, J. W. Geddes 228,188 Hinge, spring, L. Bommer 228,304 Hitching strap, J. C. Covert 228,322 Hoes and other tools, eye for, J. R. Thomas 228,419 Hog holder and nose ring carrier, W. A. Stark 228,286 Horse hoof pad, A. J. Lockie 228,262 Horse power equalizer, W. T. G. Cobb 228,173 Horse power sweep, J. Branning 228,307 Horseshoe nail machine, J. Roy 228,220 Hose coupling, S. Adlam, Jr. 228,161 Hose coupling, M. B. Hill 228,196 Hot air furnace, B. W. Felton 228,336 Hydraulic joint, E. D. Meier 228,209 Indigo blue, making artificial, A. Baeyer 228,300 Lamp, car, G. Seagrave 228,402 Lamp globe, G. Chappel 228,247 Lamp, street, J. G. Miner 228,265 Last, W. J. Crowley 228,178 Latch, G. L. Crandal 228,323 Life protector for railway rails, E. J. Hoffman 228,353 Lifting jack, J. State 228,285 Lithographic press, J. A. Parks 228,271 Lock, C. F. Otto 228,379 Locomotive, J. B. Smith 228,406 Locomotive cone, F. A. Perry 228,386 Locomotive engine, J. W. Clardy 228,172 Locomotive lubricator, W. P. Phillips 228,215 Loom for weaving gauze fabrics, A. McLean 228,372 Loom shedding mechanism, H. Halcroft 228,191 Loom temple, E. Hamilton 228,346 Loom temple, J. & L. Hardaker 228,256 Lubricator, W. P. Phillips 228,216, 228,217 Mash machine, W. Craig 228,177 Mash rake, whisky, D. L. Graves 228,190 Mash stirrer, G. Schock 228,222 Measuring machine, cloth, B. K. Parker 228,381 Middlings purifier, J. B. Martin 228,367 Milk cooler, T. Stahler 228,412 Milk pail holder, A. C. Dodge 228,327 Mining and excavating apparatus, E. M. Hugentobler 228,356 Mortising machine, E. H. N. Clarkson (r) 9,221 Nickel, solution for electro-deposition of, J. Powell 228,389 Oil and lard oil, treatment of petroleum lubricating, H. V. P. Draper 228,181 Ore separator, magnetic, T. A. Edison 228,329 Packing for piston rods, etc., metallic, L. Katzenstein 228,200 Packing for steam engines, spring, J. W. Smith 228,225 Packing, piston, W. M. Thompson, Jr. 228,420 Packing, piston rod, R. B. H. Gould 228,341 Padlock, McDonald & McAllister (r) 228,371 Pantaloons, F. H. Carney 228,246 Paper bag machine, C. A. Chandler 228,312 Paper floor covering, compound, H. Hayward 228,194 Paper for bank notes, checks, etc., J Sangster 228,221 Parchment or toughening paper, making artificial, L. H. G. Ehrhardt 228,328 Pens, pointing, E. Wiley 228,427 Permutation lock, J. B. Cook 228,316 Photo-negatives, producing, embellishing, and retouching, W. D. Osborne 228,380 Photographic background, accessory for forming, W. F. Ashe 228,295 Picture support, G. H. Brown 228,308 Pillow sham holder, M. A. Steers 228,414 Pipes, tubing etc., protector for the threaded ends of, H. E. Boyd 228,171 Planter, corn, R. H. C. Enyeart 228,332 Planter, corn, A. Hearst 228,258 Planter, corn, A. Runstetler 228,396 Plow attachment, J. R. Harbaugh 228,192 Plumbers' traps, manufacture of, J. McCloskey 228,369 Preserving evaporated fruits and vegetables, H. G. Hulburd 228,198 Printer's chase, J. Kingsland, Jr. 228,201 Printer's quoin, C. G. Squintani 228,410 Printer's type case, J. T. Edson 228,251 Pulley, J. B. Stockham 228,415 Pump, W. S. Laney 228,203 Pump, lift, P. T. Perkins 228,383 Pump, rotary, J. Hallner 228,344 Pump, steam jet, Randall & Tuttle 228,275 Railway heads, stop motion for, H. T. Spencer 228,407 Railway joints, angle splice for, J. D. Hawks 228,347 Railway signal apparatus, electric, O. Gassett 228,187 Range, D. H. Nation 228,268, 228,269, 228,270 Reclining chair, T. G. Maguire 228,263 Refrigerating and ice making apparatus, C. P. G. Linde 228,364 Rivets, making tubular, G. W. Tucker 228,423 Rock drills and earth augers, machine for operating, G. Taylor 228,418 Rubber bottles, etc., closing the openings in India, T. J. Mayall 228,207 Rubber, ornamenting hard, H., O., & M. Traun 228,290 Sash cord fastener and sash lock, combined, E. V. Heaford 228,349 Sash cord guide, E. H. N. Clarkson (r) 9,222 Sash fastener, S. P. Jackson 228,199 Sash fastening, J. Pusey 228,274 Sawing machine, circular, P. Pryibil 228,218 Sawing machine, drag, S. F. Steele 228,413 Sawing machine, drag, A. Wilkins 228,237 Screw bolt, L. Strauss 228,288 Screw threads, device for cutting, J. C. Williams 228,429 Sealing packages, E. A. McAlpin 228,368 Seaming machine, F. A. Walsh 228,234, 228,235 Sewing machine balance wheel pulley, E. Flather 228,184 Sheet metal joint, C. Wright 228,240 Shirt, G. C. Henning 228,195 Shoe, J. J. Snyder 228,226 Shoe nail, Z. Talbot 228,417 Shoe support, rubber, J. G. Foreman 228,338 Shoulder brace, C. A. Williamson 228,238 Sign, flexible, F. Tuchfarber (r) 9,223 Skiving machine, W. S. Fitzgerald 228,183 Skylight, W. D. Smith 228,282 Smoker's kit, T. V. Curtis 228,325 Soap and other materials, apparatus for mixing, W., Sr., W., Jr., & A. W. Cornwall 228,320 Soap, machine for mixing materials for making, W., Sr., W., Jr., & A. W. Cornwall 228,319 Soap, process and apparatus for remelting, W., Jr., & A. W. Cornwall 228,321 Soda water, apparatus for generating gas for, J. Collins 228,315 Spark arrester, locomotive, D. P. Wright 228,431 Spool box, C. Tollner 228,289 Stamp, hand, T. Berridge 228,243 Stamp, postage, J. Macdonough 228,365 Steam engine, J. C. Miller 228,374 Steam engine recorder, G. H. Crosby 228,179 Steam generator, N. Eaton 228,250 Stove, A. C. Barstow 228,166 Stove grate, J. Moore, Jr 228,266 Stove, hay, Stocum & Merrill 228,287 Stove, magazine, C. Seavor 228,401 Surface gauge, F. J. Rabbeth 228,391 Swarm catcher, J. W. Bailey 228,299 Syringe attachment, S Turner 228,422 Tackle or pulley block, T. R. Ferrall 228,335 Telephone, S. Russell 228,395 Telephone circuit switch, G. L. Anders 228,294 Telephones, dental attachment for, H. G. Fiske 228,254 Testing machine, T. Olsen 228,214 Textile and other materials, machine for cutting, A. Warth (r) 9,232 Textile fabrics, machine for cutting, A. Warth (r) 9,231 Ticket holder, C. Scherich 228,280 Ticket, railway, F. C. Nims 228,213 Tobacco caddy, R. Finzer 228,182 Tobacco hoisting apparatus, W. S. Guy 228,342 Tongs, pipe, S. Fawcett 228,333 Toy, creeping, P. Von Erichsen 228,231 Treadle mechanism, D. S. Van Wyck 228,424 Treadle power machine, G. W. Ziegler 228,432 Tree protector, J. W. Richards 228,393 Trimmings, flitter for milliners', J. Lambert 228,363 Tube machine, D. Appel 228,162 Valve, balanced, E. D. Meier 228,210 Vapor burner, W. H. Smith (r) 9,227 Vehicle spring, H. M. Keith 228,360 Vent for beer barrels, O. Zwietusch 228,292 Vessels, apparatus for unloading coal, etc., from, Cooney & Swanston 228,317 Vise and clamp, J. Brady 228,245 Wagon, road, C. W. Saladee 228,397 Wagon running gear, G. W. Burr 228,311 Wash boiler, O. Tilton 228,230 Washing and wringing machine, combined, C. H. Wood 228,239 Washing machine, J. B. Pettit 228,272 Water closets, flushing cistern for, S. G. McFarland 228,264 Water heater, K. McDonald 228,208 Water heater, fireplace, I. B. Potts 228,388 Whiffletree hook, E. Hanrahan 228,345 Windlass locking gear, Remington & Manton (r) 9,233 Windmill, A. H. Smith 228,283 Window screen, R. Perrin 228,384 Wire stretcher, H. Hemenway 228,350 Wood bit, L. Thuston 228,421 * * J. J. CALLOW. keywords: address; air; american; apparatus; boiler; class; co.; company; etc; exhibit; feet; fire; form; gas; illustration; iron; judges; light; line; machine; machinery; making; mass; means; new; new york; number; order; packing; paper; patent; power; pressure; price; process; report; scientific; sound; steam; street; time; use; watches; water; work; years; york; | +; | | cache: 38482.txt plain text: 38482.txt item: #97 of 151 id: 38782 author: Hubert, Philip Gengembre title: Inventors date: None words: 66375 flesch: 66 summary: To go back to earlier days, the story of Edison's first years as a full-fledged operator shows that from the beginning he was more of an inventor than an operator. Few great inventions that have made their authors immortal were so completely grasped at inception as this. keywords: air; american; boat; business; country; day; edison; electricity; end; engine; england; ericsson; experiments; family; father; franklin; fulton; goodyear; half; house; howe; illustration; india; invention; inventor; life; light; little; machine; making; man; mccormick; means; miles; money; morse; new; new york; number; patent; power; professor; reaper; rubber; small; states; steam; success; telegraph; time; use; value; water; way; whitney; wire; work; world; years; york; young cache: 38782.txt plain text: 38782.txt item: #98 of 151 id: 39398 author: Cromwell, John Howard title: A System of Easy Lettering date: None words: 2364 flesch: 70 summary: By C. J. WOODWARD, B.Sc. 143 pages, complete thumb index 12mo, limp leather, $1.60. _Books mailed post-paid to any address on receipt of price_ Size of book 5 × 8 inches, stiff board covers. keywords: book; cloth; cts; illustrated; illustration; pages; paper; use cache: 39398.txt plain text: 39398.txt item: #99 of 151 id: 39639 author: Anonymous title: Picturesque World's Fair, Vol. I, No. 1, Feb. 10, 1894 An Elaborate Collection of Colored Views . . . Comprising Illustrations of the Greatest Features of the World's Columbian Exposition and Midway Plaisance: Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Scenic and Ethnological date: None words: 4294 flesch: 57 summary: The style of architecture adapted in the building was of the Grecian-Ionic order and the blending and adaptation of what was most perfect in the past was such as to secure an effect, if not in the exact sense original, at least of great harmony and grandeur. The grand central arch, one hundred feet high, and the domed pavilions at either corner are supported by heavy pilasters of granitoid blocks, suggestive of great solidity. keywords: building; exposition; fair; feet; height; illustration; people; view; world cache: 39639.txt plain text: 39639.txt item: #100 of 151 id: 39721 author: Hazen, Edward title: Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 69631 flesch: 67 summary: Cotton is cultivated in the East and West Indies, North and South America, Egypt, and in many other parts of the world, where the climate is sufficiently warm for the purpose. It is also produced, to a considerable extent, in the state of Kentucky, and in many other parts of the United States. keywords: animals; application; article; attention; business; cases; century; cities; cloth; cotton; countries; country; cut; england; europe; fish; form; hair; having; illustration; iron; kind; law; leather; length; maker; making; manner; materials; means; men; nations; new; number; oil; operation; parts; people; period; persons; practice; present; process; public; purpose; romans; schools; soap; states; subject; teeth; time; tobacco; trade; united; use; water; way; world; years cache: 39721.txt plain text: 39721.txt item: #101 of 151 id: 40101 author: Hazen, Edward title: Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) date: None words: 75241 flesch: 71 summary: The appellation of _founder_ is given to the superintendent of a blast-furnace, and likewise to those persons who make castings either of iron or any other metal. Wind-instruments of various kinds, comprised under the general name of _tibiæ_, and sometimes the cythera and harp, accompanied the chorus. keywords: application; art; books; business; case; cast; century; copper; country; cut; end; england; europe; fire; form; general; glass; gold; heat; illustration; instruments; iron; kind; lead; long; manner; manufacture; materials; means; metal; method; mould; number; oil; operation; ore; painting; paper; parts; pieces; plate; process; purpose; sand; silver; size; state; steel; stone; surface; time; tin; types; united; use; water; wood; work; years cache: 40101.txt plain text: 40101.txt item: #102 of 151 id: 40276 author: Hale, Edward Everett title: Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends date: None words: 89448 flesch: 69 summary: Like many other such men, however, from his time down to Ericsson, he came to the front when he was needed, and served Syracuse better than her speech-makers. Here, with workmen brought with him from Italy, he began many great works. keywords: air; archimedes; art; bacon; bessemer; boiler; book; business; cotton; cylinder; day; edgeworth; end; engine; england; experiments; father; fire; france; fritz; fulton; glasses; good; great; half; hand; head; house; invention; iron; life; locomotive; machine; making; man; means; metal; miles; new; order; people; piston; place; power; purpose; set; sir; state; steam; steel; stephenson; success; telegraph; things; thought; time; uncle; use; water; watt; way; wheels; whitney; work; working; world; years; | | cache: 40276.txt plain text: 40276.txt item: #103 of 151 id: 404 author: Smiles, Samuel title: Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers date: None words: 122970 flesch: 56 summary: In course of time other iron works were erected, at Clyde Cleugh, Muirkirk, and Devon--the managers and overseers of which, as well as the workmen, had mostly received their training and experience at Carron--until at length the iron trade of Scotland has assumed such a magnitude that its manufacturers are enabled to export to England and other countries upwards of 500,000 tons a-year. A forgotten patriot The Yarranton family Andrew Yarranton's early life A soldier under the Parliament Begins iron works Is seized and imprisoned His plans for improving internal navigation Improvements in agriculture Manufacture of tin plate His journey into Saxony to learn it Travels in Holland keywords: account; art; blast; bramah; bridge; business; cast; character; clement; coal; construction; cort; country; course; day; difficulty; dudley; employment; end; engine; engineer; england; english; experiments; fairbairn; family; father; fire; firm; forge; form; furnace; general; good; hammer; hand; having; henry; history; house; idea; improvements; industry; invention; inventor; iron; iron manufacture; iron trade; iron works; james; kind; labour; lathe; life; london; machine; machinery; making; maudslay; means; mechanics; men; metal; method; nasmyth; new; object; patent; period; pit; place; power; principal; process; purpose; rest; results; self; set; sir; skill; small; smelting; smith; society; state; steam; steel; subject; success; sussex; time; tons; tools; use; water; watt; way; william; wood; work; working; workmen; yarranton; years cache: 404.txt plain text: 404.txt item: #104 of 151 id: 40782 author: Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) title: Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology date: None words: 144781 flesch: 62 summary: Many other _materia medica_ specimens were transferred from the Department of Agriculture. The following applies to all of the Papers: Italic emphasis denoted as _Text_. keywords: acid; air; american; apparatus; association; baltimore; battery; bertolla; boiler; bollman; borghesi; bridge; carriage; center; century; charles; clock; coast; collection; company; construction; courtesy; day; deck; der; design; development; dial; distance; division; double; drawing; driving; duryea; earth; effect; engine; engineering; experiments; father; feet; figure; following; footnote; form; frame; frank; fulton; gear; general; geodetic; gravity; half; hand; history; hull; illustration; inches; institution; invariable; iron; john; journal; june; knife; left; length; letter; line; london; long; machine; means; medical; medicine; method; model; moon; museum; national; navy; needle; new; number; observations; original; paper; paris; patent; peirce; pendulum; period; pharmaceutical; phosphate; phosphorus; photo; pioneer; plan; plate; point; present; railroad; report; right; river; rock; screw; second; section; september; shield; ship; showing; smithsonian; states; steam; sun; support; survey; system; technology; theory; time; truss; tunnel; tunneling; u.s; united; valve; vessel; vol; washington; water; wheel; wire; work; years; york cache: 40782.txt plain text: 40782.txt item: #105 of 151 id: 41219 author: Forman, S. E. (Samuel Eagle) title: Stories of Useful Inventions date: None words: 46381 flesch: 81 summary: [11] It was given the name of _pig_ iron because when the molten metal ran into the impressions made for it upon the sanded floor and cooled, it assumed a shape resembling a family of little pigs. The one-wheeled cart had at first _one log_ turning _with_ the axle; the two-wheeled cart at first had as its wheels two very short logs turning _on_ the axles. keywords: boat; book; century; clock; day; early; end; engine; fig; fire; grain; hand; history; house; illustration; invention; iron; kind; lamp; light; loom; making; man; means; men; mill; new; place; plow; reaper; steam; stick; stone; time; use; water; way; work; world; years cache: 41219.txt plain text: 41219.txt item: #106 of 151 id: 43282 author: Various title: Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.—No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878 date: None words: 39687 flesch: 70 summary: ====================================================================== VOL. ====================================================================== O. D. MUNN. keywords: = =; address; air; american; apparatus; carbon; case; cents; co.; coal; cost; country; day; dust; edison; end; engraving; eve; feet; form; gas; hand; illustration; iron; light; little; machine; machinery; means; metal; new; new york; number; office; paper; patent; pot; power; pressure; price; production; second; states; steam; street; sun; surface; telephone; temperature; time; tube; use; water; wood; work; working; world; year; york cache: 43282.txt plain text: 43282.txt item: #107 of 151 id: 43841 author: Dircks, Henry title: Scientific Studies; or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits date: None words: 19022 flesch: 56 summary: In England, William Lilly, the Sidrophel of Hudibras, and the most famous astrologer of his time, died in 1681, leaving behind him his _Introduction to Astrology_, together with many other works of the same character. The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Marquis of Worcester_, 8vo. keywords: 8vo; astrology; century; circle; engine; inventions; life; line; man; marquis; means; nature; page; plate; science; second; sun; time; vauxhall; volume; water; weight; worcester; works; years cache: 43841.txt plain text: 43841.txt item: #108 of 151 id: 43965 author: Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) title: Invention: The Master-key to Progress date: None words: 105534 flesch: 55 summary: This invention was a great boon to mankind, but not to Goodyear; for the jackals who lie in wait for great inventions eager to wrest unearned profit for themselves from the men who have truly earned it, made Goodyear's life miserable for many years. Though the typewriter is a very simple apparatus in both principle and construction, yet few machines stand out more clearly as great inventions. keywords: alexander; century; civilization; conception; conditions; course; cæsar; day; degree; discovery; effect; electric; engine; fact; force; form; good; government; greece; gun; history; idea; imagination; influence; invention; inventor; kind; knowledge; laws; life; light; like; machine; making; man; material; means; men; mind; nations; new; order; original; parts; people; picture; plan; point; power; printing; progress; reason; result; science; states; steam; system; things; time; use; war; water; way; work; world; year cache: 43965.txt plain text: 43965.txt item: #109 of 151 id: 44188 author: Baker, Ray Stannard title: Boys' Second Book of Inventions date: None words: 41956 flesch: 67 summary: At first few would believe the reports, but when Thomas A. Edison, Graham Bell, and other great inventors and scientists had expressed their confidence in Marconi's achievement, the whole country, was ready to hail the young inventor with honours. It is in the work of exploring these regions of great heat that such men as Moissan, Siemens, Faure, and others have made such remarkable discoveries, reaching temperatures as high as 7,000, or over twice the heat of boiling steel. keywords: air; balloon; current; cylinder; dumont; earthquake; england; experiments; feet; furnace; great; heat; hewitt; illustration; inventor; iron; light; lighthouse; man; marconi; means; miles; milne; motor; new; nitrogen; power; professor; radium; santos; sea; set; ship; soil; time; water; waves; way; work; world; years cache: 44188.txt plain text: 44188.txt item: #110 of 151 id: 44502 author: Williams, Henry Smith title: Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature date: None words: 89059 flesch: 57 summary: Such water engines have come into vogue only in comparatively recent times, being suggested by the steam engine. In the present volume we are concerned with those primitive applications of force through which man early learned to add to his working efficiency, and with the elaborate mechanisms--turbine wheels, steam engines, dynamos--through which he has been enabled to multiply his powers until it is scarcely exaggeration to say that he has made all Nature subservient to his will. keywords: -the; aid; air; apparatus; century; course; current; cylinder; day; distance; dynamo; electric; electricity; energy; engines; example; experiments; fact; feet; force; form; gas; gas engine; hand; heat; horse; idea; iron; lamp; light; machine; man; means; mechanism; metal; method; mines; mining; nature; new; ore; piston; place; point; power; pressure; principle; process; steam engine; steam power; steel; surface; time; turbine; type; use; water; watt; weight; wheel; wire; work; working; world; years cache: 44502.txt plain text: 44502.txt item: #111 of 151 id: 45083 author: Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) title: The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out date: None words: 88317 flesch: 73 summary: Therefore Figs. 79 and 80 will be helpful, as they show the location of oil holes and parts to be oiled, and the illustrations will serve as a guide to other machines. The Oliver No. 3] The Oliver, Fig. 230, differs in mechanical principle from other machines. keywords: = =; air; bar; boat; case; centre; cut; cylinder; day; diameter; distance; earth; end; engine; father; feet; fig; foot; force; fred; george; gregg; hook; illustration; inches; left; length; lever; light; line; machine; making; moon; motion; needle; new; number; parts; piston; place; point; power; pressure; propeller; river; screw; set; shaft; spring; steam; surface; time; type; use; valve; water; way; weight; wheel; wood; work; | | cache: 45083.txt plain text: 45083.txt item: #112 of 151 id: 45139 author: Clark, Samuel Evans title: Learn to Invent, First Steps for Beginners Young and Old Practical Instuction, Valuable Suggestions to Learn to Invent date: None words: 13442 flesch: 86 summary: Many good ideas for the personal benefit of the buyer don't seem to go at all. Elections call forth many ideas as to the best form of balloting. keywords: box; end; horse; idea; invention; machine; matter; mind; paper; patent; people; spring; study; things; thought; time; use; wire; work cache: 45139.txt plain text: 45139.txt item: #113 of 151 id: 45269 author: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell) title: Inventions of the Great War date: None words: 68653 flesch: 72 summary: Like the scout, the spotter had to be a fast climber, so that it could get out of the range of enemy guns and run away from attacking planes. [Illustration: (C) Underwood & Underwood The Flying-tank--an Armored German Airplane designed for firing on troops on the march] Early in the war, large guns were mounted on airplanes, but the shock of the recoil proved too much for the airplane to stand. keywords: air; airplane; american; battle; big; boat; british; course; depth; distance; end; enemy; feet; fire; french; gas; germans; great; ground; gun; guns; illustration; inch; light; lines; machine; men; miles; new; pressure; range; sea; set; shell; ship; submarine; surface; tank; target; time; torpedo; use; vessel; war; water; way; wire; work cache: 45269.txt plain text: 45269.txt item: #114 of 151 id: 45541 author: Prindle, Edwin J. (Edwin Jay) title: The Art of Inventing date: None words: 5977 flesch: 62 summary: The art of invention is therefore one of great commercial and economical importance, and it becomes a matter of much interest to know how inventions are produced. Many important inventions have been made by persons whose occupation is wholly disconnected with the art in which they are inventing, because their minds were not prejudiced by what had already been done. keywords: dial; fig; illustration; invention; machine; pointer; time cache: 45541.txt plain text: 45541.txt item: #115 of 151 id: 46094 author: Williams, Archibald title: The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments date: None words: 97993 flesch: 66 summary: Its success has led to the purchase of other motor engines, some fitted with a chemical apparatus, which, by the action of acid on a solution of soda in closed cylinders, is enabled to fling water impregnated with carbonic acid gas on to the fire the moment it arrives within working distance of the conflagration, and gives very valuable first aid while the pumping apparatus is being got into order. The latest thing in motor fire engines is one which carries a fire-escape with it, in addition to water-flinging machinery. keywords: action; air; apparatus; away; boat; car; case; chamber; chapter; company; cut; cylinder; day; diameter; distance; electric; end; engine; feet; fire; form; gas; grain; ground; h.p; half; hand; heat; hour; hydraulic; inch; inches; left; light; line; london; machine; machinery; main; man; means; mechanism; men; metal; miles; motor; moving; new; number; oil; open; parts; pass; petrol; piston; plate; point; position; power; pressure; pumps; railway; screw; sea; second; set; ship; size; speed; steam; steel; surface; system; time; tons; tube; turn; use; valve; vessel; water; way; weight; wheel; work; working; years cache: 46094.txt plain text: 46094.txt item: #116 of 151 id: 46232 author: Maule, Harry E. (Harry Edward) title: The Boy's Book of New Inventions date: None words: 95494 flesch: 67 summary: In fact the tendency of aeroplane builders has been to adopt the successful devices on other machines rather than to work out original ones. ARTIFICIAL LIGHTNING MADE AND HARNESSED TO MAN'S USE 129 Our Friends Investigate Nikola Tesla's Invention for the Wireless Transmission of Power, by Which He Hopes to Encircle the Earth With Limitless Electrical Power, Make Ocean and Air Travel Absolutely Safe, and Revolutionize Land Traffic. keywords: = =; aeroplane; air; aviation; biplane; blériot; boy; brothers; cement; concrete; course; curtiss; day; development; earth; edison; engine; experiments; feet; film; flying; friend; gas; heat; horsepower; illustration; inch; invention; iron; light; little; machine; making; man; metal; miles; model; monoplane; motion; motor; new; parts; picture; planes; power; pressure; process; rear; run; scientist; second; set; speed; steam; steel; system; tesla; thermit; time; turbine; type; use; water; waves; way; white; wind; wireless; work; working; world; wright; years; | | cache: 46232.txt plain text: 46232.txt item: #117 of 151 id: 46472 author: Robinson, Henry title: Inventors & Inventions date: None words: 12768 flesch: 57 summary: Owing to the various kinds of skilled labor, numerous expensive tools, machinery, high rents for suitable manufacturing places necessary for the building of machinery, requiring the investment of large capital, and the devotion of a great deal of time for organization and supervision, many inventors find it convenient, even profitable, to have their machines built under contract by some established manufacturing concern which is properly equipped for that special kind of work. At present it would seem that many inventors have a special reason for deploring the decadence of the Eternal Brimstone-Doctrine, as punishment for wrong-doing, especially for the breaking of the Eighth and Tenth Commandments, as its modern substitute of Thou shalt not steal, less-than-necessary-for-lawyers'-fees-to-absolve-you-and-a-reasonable-margin-of-profit, manifestly is broad enough to include the stealing of inventive production. keywords: chapter; general; good; illustration; invention; inventor; machine; making; man; means; new; patent; people; property; work; world cache: 46472.txt plain text: 46472.txt item: #118 of 151 id: 46512 author: Smith, Goodwin Brooke title: How to Succeed as an Inventor Showing the Wonderful Possibilities in the Field of Invention; the Dangers to Be Avoided; the Inventions Needed; How to Perfect and Develop New Ideas to the Money Making Stage date: None words: 20508 flesch: 71 summary: Picture of U.S. Patent Office. Franklin U.S. 1731 Stereotyping William Ged Scotch. 1733 keywords: = =; article; business; chapter; cost; engine; english; field; gas; idea; illustration; invention; inventor; lever; lines; machine; man; means; method; money; motion; new; patent; philadelphia; present; right; rod; shaft; steam; substitute; success; time; u.s; use; valve; water; way; wheel; work; world; years cache: 46512.txt plain text: 46512.txt item: #119 of 151 id: 46644 author: Anonymous title: Invention and Discovery: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches date: None words: 46995 flesch: 67 summary: The Empress Catherine of Russia was exceedingly anxious to have his services in the formation of great engineering works in her dominions, and she commissioned the Princess Dackshaw to offer him his own terms, if he would accede to her proposal. He had been a man of fashion, and an adventurer on the turf; but had for many years shut himself up at Lilley, and been inaccessible and invisible to the world; his house being barricaded, and the walls of his grounds protected by hurdles, with spring-guns, so planted as to resist intrusion in every direction. keywords: 8vo; age; air; author; books; british; century; cloth; crown; day; discovery; edition; end; england; experiment; feet; gold; half; herschel; history; hour; house; illustrated; invention; john; length; life; light; london; lord; machine; man; means; miles; nature; new; nimmo; number; paper; place; power; price; professor; room; round; science; scientific; sir; small; society; sun; telescope; time; use; water; way; weight; works; world; years; young cache: 46644.txt plain text: 46644.txt item: #120 of 151 id: 46706 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 467, December 13, 1884 date: None words: 40246 flesch: 65 summary: It is but one-half the length of the upper wave of red light; the period of vibration is but half as long. The drawing marked red corresponds to red light, and this lower diagram corresponds to violet light. keywords: acid; action; air; apparatus; color; emulsion; end; feet; fig; force; glass; gold; heat; illustration; length; light; line; means; motion; new; number; plate; power; pressure; red; second; sewage; silver; solution; surface; system; time; toning; tubes; use; vibrations; water; wave; way; weight; work cache: 46706.txt plain text: 46706.txt item: #121 of 151 id: 47258 author: Mowry, Arthur May title: American Inventions and Inventors date: None words: 75530 flesch: 78 summary: Miss Turner then told them that it was many years after the time of Columbus or Hudson or Penn before coal mines were discovered in this country or coal used. Many years passed, however, before hard coal came into common use. keywords: american; boat; boston; cars; century; chapter; city; coal; corn; cotton; country; day; days; electric; engine; england; farmer; feet; fire; food; gas; george; good; ground; half; hand; heat; home; houses; illustration; indians; invention; john; life; light; long; machine; machinery; making; man; means; men; miles; new; new york; ocean; oil; people; place; power; railroad; river; room; states; steam; telegraph; time; travel; united; use; water; way; wood; work; world; years; york cache: 47258.txt plain text: 47258.txt item: #122 of 151 id: 47657 author: California. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition commission title: Report of Governor's Representatives for California at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Commission date: None words: 11689 flesch: 66 summary: Models were shown, and in operation where practicable, of such articles or machinery as could not be accommodated otherwise, as for instance the working model of a complete gold dredge, manufactured especially for this exhibit by the Risdon Iron Works of San Francisco. The Art Display collected largely by Miss Evelyn Almond Withrow of San Francisco, as a labor of love, her services being gratuitous, as was her time in superintending the installation of the exhibit later, was freely admitted by those informed on such things to be the best and most complete representation of California art and handicraft ever brought together on any previous occasion either at home or abroad. keywords: angeles oil; art; ass'n san; berkeley; building; california; california sacramento; california wine; china; co. los; co. sacramento; co. san; colony san; county; display; exhibit; exposition; francisco oil; fresno; fruit; hand; industrial; installation; los angeles; mrs; oakland; oil; oil paintings; olive; paintings; public; representatives; san diego; san francisco; santa; school; seattle; state; water; wine; wine co.; wine san; work cache: 47657.txt plain text: 47657.txt item: #123 of 151 id: 49016 author: J. Walter Thompson Company title: Things to Know About Trade-Marks: A Manual of Trade-Mark Information date: None words: 29612 flesch: 67 summary: Lake, Cylinder, and New York are trade names used to indicate qualities of glass. | | | | The manufacturer who doesn't advertise has to | | depend on the jobber and the retailer. keywords: act; advertising; applicant; application; baker; bldg.= |; business; case; co.; company; court; descriptive; goods; illustration; infringement; law; manufacturer; mark; mark law; new; patent; product; public; registered; registration; right; states; street= |; trade; trade mark; united; use; word; years; | +; | =; | | cache: 49016.txt plain text: 49016.txt item: #124 of 151 id: 5763 author: Young, Daniel title: Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of Subjects date: None words: 51998 flesch: 79 summary: This tortoise-shell ground it not less valuable for its great hardness, and enduring to be made hotter than boiling water without damage, than for the superior beauty and brilliancy of its appearance. TO MAKE CLOTH, SILK &c., WATER-PROOF Mix equal quantities of alum and acetate of lead, and dissolve the mixture in 1-1/2 gallons of boiling water. keywords: acid; black; blue; boil; bottle; clean; cloth; colour; day; glass; gold; gum; half; horse; hot; hours; iron; lbs; lead; mix; mixed; mixture; oil; ozs; parts; pint; powder; red; silver; solution; spirits; stand; sugar; time; turpentine; use; varnish; water; white; wine; yellow cache: 5763.txt plain text: 5763.txt item: #125 of 151 id: 6139 author: Severing, Paul title: Marvels of Modern Science date: None words: 45621 flesch: 67 summary: In many other places throughout these lands, deep students of Biblical lore are pushing on the work of excavation and daily adding to our knowledge concerning the peoples and nations in whom posterity must ever take a vital interest. If there are myriads of other worlds, thousands, millions of them in point of magnitude greater than ours, what concern say they has the Creator with our little atom of matter? keywords: air; building; chapter; construction; day; deck; distance; earth; electric; electricity; energy; ether; fact; feet; fire; guns; horse; inches; length; life; light; machine; man; matter; means; miles; motor; new; place; potato; power; present; pressure; radium; rate; rock; room; science; second; ship; space; speed; stars; state; steel; surface; system; time; tons; tunnel; use; water; waves; way; wireless; work; world; years; york cache: 6139.txt plain text: 6139.txt item: #126 of 151 id: 6435 author: Taylor, Frederick Winslow title: The Principles of Scientific Management date: None words: 36907 flesch: 58 summary: And in a few years, under this system, the workmen have before them the object lesson of seeing that a great increase in the output per man results in giving employment to more men, instead of throwing men out of work, thus completely eradicating the fallacy that a larger output for each man will throw other men out of work. Doubtless some of those who are especially interested in working men will complain because under scientific management the workman, when he is shown how to do twice as much work as he formerly did, is not paid twice his former wages, while others who are more interested in the dividends than the workmen will complain that under this system the men receive much higher wages than they did before. keywords: day; day work; fact; iron; machine; management; new; pig; science; study; task; time; use; wages; way; work; working; workman; writer cache: 6435.txt plain text: 6435.txt item: #127 of 151 id: 725 author: Smiles, Samuel title: Men of Invention and Industry date: None words: 116241 flesch: 66 summary: As Mr. Stephenson observed at the engineer's meeting: Mr. Smith had worked from a platform which might have been raised by others, as Watt had done, and as other great men had done; but he had made a stride in advance which was almost tantamount to a new invention. The cylindrical lifeboat kept perfectly water-tight, and though thrown into the water in many different positions--sometimes tumbled in on its prow, at other times on its back (the deck being undermost), it invariably righted itself. keywords: age; art; belfast; bianconi; board; business; captain; car; company; country; course; day; days; employment; end; engine; england; english; enterprise; father; feet; fish; following; good; government; great; half; hand; harrison; high; home; house; idea; industry; invention; ireland; irish; iron; john; knowledge; koenig; labour; length; life; london; longitude; machine; making; man; means; men; method; miles; model; money; murdock; new; night; number; office; order; paper; patent; people; pett; place; power; present; press; printing; progress; public; purpose; royal; school; screw; sea; set; ships; silk; sir; steam; subject; success; telescope; thought; time; tons; town; trade; use; vessel; walter; watt; way; william; work; working; world; years cache: 725.txt plain text: 725.txt item: #128 of 151 id: 7886 author: Steele, James W. title: Steam, Steel and Electricity date: None words: 53545 flesch: 66 summary: Amid these scenes flit strong men, naked to the waist, unharmed in the red pandemonium, guiding every process, superintending every result; like other men, yet leading a life so strange that it is apparently impossible. And yet all the great inventions which have done so much for civilization have been discovered by eccentrics--that is, by men who stepped out of the common groove; who differed more or less from other men in their habits and ideals.] keywords: action; air; american; battery; country; current; dynamo; electricity; end; engine; fact; field; footnote; franklin; heat; idea; illustration; invention; iron; life; light; machine; magnet; making; man; means; men; metal; new; place; power; present; pressure; principle; process; results; science; steam; steel; telegraph; time; tube; use; water; wire; work; world; years cache: 7886.txt plain text: 7886.txt item: #129 of 151 id: 8195 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 date: None words: 47239 flesch: 62 summary: Transmission by Pressure Water_.--As transmission of power by compressed air has been specially applied to the driving of tunnels, so transmission by pressure water has been specially resorted to for lifting heavy loads, or for work of a similar nature, such as the operations connected with the manufacture of Bessemer steel or of cast-iron pipes. Of machines worked by water pressure the author proposes to refer only to two which appear to him in every respect the most practical and advantageous. keywords: acid; action; air; author; battery; bread; breathing; case; cent; current; effect; efficiency; electricity; experiments; fact; fall; flour; force; form; light; lungs; means; mill; minute; new; oil; otto; pain; place; power; present; pressure; process; quantity; results; river; rose; salmon; spring; temperature; time; use; water; wheat; work; years cache: 8195.txt plain text: 8195.txt item: #130 of 151 id: 8296 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 date: None words: 39247 flesch: 64 summary: We may learn what new features have been discerned of the new body, and what additional discoveries in connection with other planets unknown in Herschel's day, have been effected by aid of the powerful telescopes which have been devoted to the work. Many great discoveries have resulted from accident; and the leading facts attending that of Uranus prove that, in a large measure, the result was brought about in a similar way. keywords: air; bran; bromide; cubic; cylinder; disease; electricity; feet; flour; gas; gauge; gelatine; herschel; iron; machine; making; means; mercury; method; middlings; mill; milling; new; planet; power; present; pump; reduction; reel; rolls; satellites; second; steam; system; time; tube; use; water; way; wheat; winter; work; years cache: 8296.txt plain text: 8296.txt item: #131 of 151 id: 8297 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 date: None words: 30994 flesch: 65 summary: an account of some interesting specimens of globular calcareous matter, resembling pisolites or peastones both in appearance and structure, which were accidentally formed as follows: The Northern Railway Company, France, desiring to purify some calciferous water designed for use in steam boilers, hit upon the ingenious expedient of treating it with lime water whose concentration was calculated exactly from the amount of lime held in the liquid to be purified. This tone is due in great part to the presence of fawn colored matters, which the cleanings and soapings served to destroy or remove. keywords: acid; alizarin; american; apparatus; case; engine; experiments; facts; good; great; half; hour; iron; leather; light; lime; means; method; new; order; paper; place; power; process; pupils; reds; results; science; state; steam; study; time; use; water; way; weight; work; years cache: 8297.txt plain text: 8297.txt item: #132 of 151 id: 8391 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 date: None words: 43641 flesch: 61 summary: Water power in many of the States is abundant and contributes largely to their prosperity. The earliest application of water power to general manufacturing purposes appears to have been at Paterson, New Jersey, where The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures was formed in the year 1791. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; burning; carbon; carbonic; cent; chemical; coal; distance; electric; electricity; experiments; explosion; fig; fire; footnote; force; form; gas; heat; light; machine; matter; means; milk; new; oil; oxygen; place; point; potash; power; present; quantity; results; room; silver; soap; soda; steam; surface; temperature; time; use; water; water power cache: 8391.txt plain text: 8391.txt item: #133 of 151 id: 8408 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 date: None words: 41104 flesch: 61 summary: In the part built upon the streets are but two feet above mean high water. A proper system of tidal sewers, it is claimed, will necessitate the raising of the grade of the streets on the low lands to a height at least ten feet above mean high water. keywords: acid; action; alcohol; ammonium; apparatus; boiler; cases; cent; current; emulsion; engines; feet; flame; form; gas; good; iron; lead; light; liquid; machine; means; messrs; method; new; number; oxalate; place; pot; power; pressure; process; quantity; results; solution; steam; surface; temperature; time; tube; use; vapors; vessel; water; weight; working; years; zinc cache: 8408.txt plain text: 8408.txt item: #134 of 151 id: 8452 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 date: None words: 39288 flesch: 65 summary: Such water passes only once into the purifier, and issues therefrom sufficiently rich in ammonia to be treated. There are many other saline ingredients in various natural waters, but they exist in such minute quantities, and are generally so very soluble, that their presence may safely be ignored in treating of the utility of boiler waters. keywords: acid; action; apparatus; battery; boiler; canal; color; copper; creosote; distance; electric; feet; fig; form; heat; illustration; instrument; iron; joule; length; lime; mineral; new; paper; point; red; rock; solution; species; specimens; steam; sulphate; surface; temperature; time; tube; violet; water; wood; work; york; zinc cache: 8452.txt plain text: 8452.txt item: #135 of 151 id: 8483 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 date: None words: 41521 flesch: 63 summary: From the acids in insoluble and a few other compounds, chromic, arsenic, and arsenious acids, by fusion with carbonate of soda in presence of carbonic acid gas; borate of manganese is readily decomposed when the boracic acid is to be determined by boiling with solution of potassa, dissolving the residue in hydrochloric acid and precipitating the manganese as binoxide. When loose sand is the only material to be dealt with, it can be easily sucked up, even if the nozzle is deeply buried; but at other times stones interfere with the work, and the man in charge of the flexible tube has to be very careful as to the depth to which the nozzle may be buried in the sand. keywords: acid; animals; atropine; breech; case; cast; cells; cent; charge; circuit; current; cylinder; direction; earth; electric; end; fig; force; gas; gun; guns; iron; lines; magnet; manganese; means; number; oxygen; pole; powder; present; pressure; shot; silk; solution; space; time; use; water; way; wire; work; years cache: 8483.txt plain text: 8483.txt item: #136 of 151 id: 8484 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 date: None words: 37373 flesch: 62 summary: The fact, however, that the cells will give so high a rate of discharge for a few hours is, in itself, important, since we are enabled to apply great power if desirable; the 47 cells above referred to can be made to give 10 or 12 electrical horse power for over two hours, and thus propel the boat at a very high speed, provided that the motor is adapted to utilize such powerful currents. While the chemist is busy with his researches for substances and combinations which will yield great power with small quantities of material, the engineer assiduously endeavors to reconvert the chemical or electrical energy into mechanical work suitable to the various needs. keywords: air; apparatus; case; diameter; electric; end; energy; engine; exposure; fact; feet; fig; flame; fuel; gas; heat; horse; horse power; illustration; iron; launch; long; motor; needle; new; number; order; point; power; pressure; speed; steam; surface; temperature; time; tube; use; water; weight; work cache: 8484.txt plain text: 8484.txt item: #137 of 151 id: 8504 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 date: None words: 39543 flesch: 63 summary: Thus, they are frequently merely imaginary, there being no foundation for them except in the perverted mind of the subject; at other times they are induced by a morbid attention being directed continually to some one or more organs or functions. At the end of the fifteenth week the child would imitate the movement of protruding the lips, at nine months would cry on hearing other children do so, and at twelve months used to perform in its sleep imitative movements which had made a strong impression while awake--e.g., blowing; this shows that dreaming occurs at least as early as the first year. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; carbonic; case; causes; child; conditions; day; disease; fig; form; glass; great; health; heat; ice; illustration; iron; life; light; month; new; oil; oxygen; place; point; position; present; pump; quantity; results; second; subject; surface; temperature; time; tooth; tube; use; water; way; work; years cache: 8504.txt plain text: 8504.txt item: #138 of 151 id: 8559 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 date: None words: 40213 flesch: 66 summary: In fact, such water is far purer than any distilled water to be obtained in commerce. Other points in Massachusetts have been famed for their excellent granite. keywords: air; apparatus; black; burette; case; cent; coal; cost; end; engine; feet; fig; form; furnace; gas; good; half; heat; illustration; iron; lamp; latitude; lucidity; machine; meridian; new; number; oil; pits; place; point; potash; power; soap; steam; time; tree; tube; use; water; work; years; | clock; | |; | |------------|; | |______|_________|__________|_________|_________|_________|_________|; |------------| |; |______|_________|__________|_________|_________|_________|_________| |; ° | cache: 8559.txt plain text: 8559.txt item: #139 of 151 id: 8687 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 date: None words: 39522 flesch: 63 summary: * * DEFTY'S IMPROVEMENTS IN GAS BURNERS AND HEATERS. The Journal of Gas Lighting_, for sincere congratulation among the friends of gas lighting that so much attention is being concentrated upon the improvement of gas burners for all purposes. keywords: air; aluminum; apparatus; burner; carbon; coal; current; cylinder; decomposition; electric; electro; etc; feet; fig; form; gas; gases; glass; heat; hydrogen; illustration; iron; length; light; machine; matter; means; motion; new; petroleum; piece; plant; plate; power; process; products; quantity; results; ring; time; tissue; use; water; wire; wood; work cache: 8687.txt plain text: 8687.txt item: #140 of 151 id: 8717 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 date: None words: 43409 flesch: 64 summary: Neither in size, nor strength, nor beauty, would they compare with many other forms, while in intelligence they would not surpass, even if they equaled, the horse or the beaver. _Modes of Occurrence of the Minerals_.--In general, the greater number of the specimens which are to be found in the tunnel occur in veins generally perpendicular, and with other minerals of little or no value, as calcite, chlorite, and imperfect crystals of the same mineral. keywords: acid; air; american; animal; antlers; black; case; cocoons; color; crystals; direction; end; feet; fig; form; hammer; hand; head; iron; large; larvã; light; long; means; mineral; monkeys; moths; new; north; number; parts; pernyi; place; position; red; species; spindle; stage; steel; time; tree; water; white; work; year; | | cache: 8717.txt plain text: 8717.txt item: #141 of 151 id: 8718 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 date: None words: 36877 flesch: 68 summary: The fuel employed is the coke or char resulting from cannel coal when it has yielded up its hydrocarbons and other gases during the process of carbonization in the gas retorts. It is, therefore, evident that if a larger pressure can be maintained while racking off, a larger amount of carbonic acid gas will remain in the beer. keywords: acid; air; bromide; camphor; case; cent; circle; city; coal; day; feet; form; gas; glass; god; heat; holes; illustration; iron; light; manganese; miles; new; number; oven; ozokerite; paper; place; purpose; quantity; retorts; set; silver; solution; sun; surface; system; time; use; vessel; water; wax; way cache: 8718.txt plain text: 8718.txt item: #142 of 151 id: 8742 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 date: None words: 40681 flesch: 64 summary: The operation consists in adding to the water to be softened a certain quantity of lime water, depending upon the degree of hardness, and in then allowing the mixture to rest in a state of perfect quiescence until the whole of the lime has been deposited and the water has become perfectly clear. The requisite quantity of lime water is then suffered to flow by gravity into whichever of the three tanks is empty. keywords: acid; action; air; apparatus; brake; case; cent; effect; elevators; end; fig; fire; following; force; form; illustration; iron; lime; lime water; magnetism; means; method; milk; mixture; molecules; motors; neutrality; oil; point; polarity; power; pressure; process; quantity; rod; soap; solution; supply; tank; time; use; vinegar; water; water supply; way cache: 8742.txt plain text: 8742.txt item: #143 of 151 id: 8862 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 date: None words: 37930 flesch: 68 summary: Again, in sinking for coal do not begin your work from the bed of a valley, unless it be of hard rock, else you may have to go through an indefinite amount of drift and gravel; and once more, in boring for artesian wells, it sometimes happens that good water can be obtained in the loose drift filling these ancient valleys; but when you wish to sink into harder rock, do not select your site of operations on an old buried valley, for the cost of sinking through gravel is greater than through ordinary rock. The rapidly increasing traffic required more water than the North River could supply in any case, and the clearing up of the country to the north had materially reduced its waters in summer and fall, when most needed. keywords: ague; air; apparatus; bromide; cases; cells; course; current; dam; earth; electric; emulsion; feet; form; gas; gemiasma; glass; house; letter; line; machine; means; miles; mississippi; new; observation; paper; place; plants; power; present; river; rock; spores; telegraph; time; tunnel; valley; verdans; walls; water; way; wire; work; years cache: 8862.txt plain text: 8862.txt item: #144 of 151 id: 8950 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 date: None words: 35782 flesch: 65 summary: These depressions and swaily places, holding water part of the year, and becoming dry during the malarial season, can be easily dried by means of covered drains, and grassed or sodded over, when they will cease to grow; this vegetation and ague in such localities will disappear. Diameter of largest plant, one-quarter inch. keywords: action; ague; air; blood; board; boat; bridge; case; color; corn; cristofori; crows; feet; fig; flame; form; gemiasma; grand; great; half; illustration; insects; instrument; invention; iron; length; light; new; pianoforte; place; plants; power; present; red; sap; scale; silver; sound; spores; state; strings; time; torpedo; tube; use; vessel; water; wrest; years cache: 8950.txt plain text: 8950.txt item: #145 of 151 id: 8951 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 42013 flesch: 62 summary: J. R. Cole, Kenton Station, Tenn.--The object of this invention is to construct a machine which, by the application of but little power, will raise a stream of water to any desired hight, to furnish motive power for machinery or for other purposes. 2d, In combination with the base or heating-surface, D, the chambers, b b', and diaphragm, E, or their equivalents, substantially as arranged and described, and for the purposes shown. keywords: 1st; 4th; air; application; arm; arms; arrangement; assignor; b b; bar; box; chamber; city; claim; combination; connection; construction; cutter; cylinder; end; feet; frame; handle; head; invention; lever; machine; manner; mass; means; n.y; new; operating; parts; piece; pipes; plate; purpose; rake; rod; screw; series; set; shaft; spring; steam; use; water; west; wheel; work; york cache: 8951.txt plain text: 8951.txt item: #146 of 151 id: 8952 author: Various title: Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. date: None words: 65043 flesch: 69 summary: 3,211.--BORING TOOL.--Alexander Allen, New York city. 3,219.--WEIGHING MACHINE.--M. Kennedy, New York city. keywords: address; air; american; application; arrangement; article; assignor; boiler; boston; box; case; circular; city; co.; conn; construction; day; dec; design; end; engine; england; feet; fire; form; frame; general; good; gun; half; hand; head; heat; illustration; improvements; invention; iron; john; journal; lbs; length; line; list; little; machine; machinery; manner; manufacture; mass; matter; means; n.y; new; new york; notes; number; object; office; ohio; paper; parts; patent; patented; philadelphia; pipe; place; position; power; practice; pressure; price; purpose; sale; saw; saws; science; scientific; set; state; steam; subject; time; use; water; way; weight; wheels; wood; work; world; year cache: 8952.txt plain text: 8952.txt item: #147 of 151 id: 9076 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 date: None words: 35921 flesch: 64 summary: For many years nearly all improvements in malting processes originated abroad, as numberless Acts of Parliament fettered every process and the use of every implement requisite in a malt-house in this country. The efforts of many chemists and mining engineers have for many years been devoted to a search for some effective and economical means for preventing the sickening of mercury and its consequent flouring and loss. keywords: air; apparatus; atmosphere; boiler; case; course; current; electro; engineering; feet; fig; force; great; heat; hydrogen; illustration; inches; instruction; iron; lead; light; line; low; magnet; malt; means; metal; needle; new; number; place; ridge; state; sun; system; tail; theory; time; trade; use; water; work; years cache: 9076.txt plain text: 9076.txt item: #148 of 151 id: 9163 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 date: None words: 29243 flesch: 62 summary: The same principle has been applied by the genius of Sir William Armstrong and others to the working of cranes and other machines for the lifting of weights, etc.; and under the form of the accumulator, with its distributing pipes and hydraulic engines, it provides a store of power always ready for application at any required point in a large system, yet costing practically nothing when not actually at work. The plungers are operated by hydraulic, steam, compressed air, or other power, the inlet and outlet of such a pressure being regulated by a valve, an example of which is shown at Fig. 1, and provided with the tappet levers, i i, hinged to the valve chest, C, as shown, and attached to spindles, i' i', operating the slide valves, and struck alternately at the end of each stroke, thus operating the valves and the guillotine connections, i² and i³. The front ends of the cylinders may be placed at an angle for the more convenient delivery of the moulded articles.--_Iron_. keywords: air; case; current; cut; cylinder; end; engine; experiments; feet; fiber; force; form; galvanometer; gas; heat; illustration; iron; light; lines; machine; means; new; plate; point; power; present; press; process; question; science; spiral; steam; time; water; way cache: 9163.txt plain text: 9163.txt item: #149 of 151 id: 9266 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 date: None words: 40209 flesch: 64 summary: The fact that it requires only one track places it at a great advantage with respect to other machines, for it is common for a road which is unpleasant from mud or stones to have a hard, smooth edge, a kind of path, where the bicyclist can travel in peace, but which is of little advantage to other machines. I shall merely give the reasons why I prefer it to anything else, and in so doing I shall be taking the first step in the discussion, in which it will be interesting to hear from riders of other machines the reasons for their preference. keywords: acid; action; advantage; apparatus; bicycle; case; coal; current; end; experiments; fact; feet; fig; form; illustration; iron; length; machine; matter; means; motion; new; place; point; position; power; present; process; rider; soap; speed; substance; time; tons; tricycle; tube; use; water; way; weight; wheel; wool cache: 9266.txt plain text: 9266.txt item: #150 of 151 id: 9308 author: Ellis, DeLancey M. title: New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission date: None words: 91789 flesch: 61 summary: New York State men are scattered throughout the country. At the conclusion of the afternoon exercises Governor Odell reviewed the New York State troops on the plaza in Forest Park. keywords: administrative; albany; american; artists; award; baldwin; bantams; beauty; black; blanks; blue; board; breeding; bronze medal; brooklyn; bush; camp; chapter; charles; chief; class; co.; cock; collective; committee; company; concord; county; day; delaware; department; dwarf; early; education; edward; empire state; executive; exhibit; exposition; exposition commission; fair; fifth; fifth prize; fine; fish; following; forest; fourth prize; frank; fruit; game; general; george; giant; globe; gold medal; golden; governor; grand; grand prize; great; green; greening; hen; henry; high; history; island; james; john; king; large; life; long; louis; louisiana; mammoth; material; medal apples; medal city; medal corn; medal exhibit; medal grapes; medal group; medal new; medal oats; medal pears; medal photographs; medal potatoes; medal pupils; medal state; medal students; medal wheat; members; months; mrs; national; new york; niagara; northern; number; odell; oil; paintings; pen; people; pigmy; pippin; pouter; premium; present; president; prize; prize black; prize light; prize new; prize silver; prize white; public; pullet; purchase; purple; queen; red; rochester; rose; russet; school; second; secretary; section; seedling; silver medal; small; snow; social; specimens; spy; state board; state building; state commission; state department; state exhibit; states; sugar; superintendent; sweet; territory; time; training; united; varieties; volumes; water; wax; west; white; william; winter; work; world; years; yellow; york city; york state cache: 9308.txt plain text: 9308.txt item: #151 of 151 id: 9666 author: Various title: Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 date: None words: 36896 flesch: 68 summary: Of merchants, because of the difficulties in obtaining supplies to meet the ever increasing demand; of engravers, because of the higher prices asked for the wood, and the difficulty of securing wood of good size and firm texture, so that the artistic excellence of the engraving might be maintained; and of the man of science, who was specially interested in the preservation of the indigenous boxwood forests, and in the utilization of other woods, natives, it might be, of far distant countries, whose adaptation would open not only a new source of revenue, but would also be the means of relieving the strain upon existing boxwood forests. In short, he says, My wood is to other wood what steel is to iron. keywords: acid; air; american; boxwood; bridge; canal; co.; coal; composition; cost; craft; end; engraving; feet; fig; fire; gas; great; hand; inch; inches; iron; life; light; line; miles; natural; new; oil; order; paint; parts; pennsylvania; petersburg; petroleum; pipe; place; pressure; purposes; sea; solution; time; tree; use; water; wood; work; years; | carbonic; | trace; | | cache: 9666.txt plain text: 9666.txt