item: #1 of 14 id: 14664 author: Williams, Archibald title: Things To Make date: None words: 71206 flesch: 79 summary: This will give you the number of tube inches filled by the 4 inches in the receiver. The target-holder is a piece of wood 1-1/2 inches square, and a couple of inches longer than the side of the largest target to be used. keywords: air; boiler; box; brass; case; centre; crank; cut; cylinder; diameter; disc; edge; end; ends; feet; fig; fit; half; holes; illustration; inch; inch brass; inch wood; inches; length; line; mark; outside; paper; parts; piece; piston; point; position; rod; round; screw; sides; solder; square; steam; tube; tubing; use; valve; water; wheel; wire; wood cache: 14664.txt plain text: 14664.txt item: #2 of 14 id: 15468 author: Caithness, James Sinclair, 14th earl of title: Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects date: None words: 36900 flesch: 64 summary: Taking the area of this field to be 750 square miles--a most probable estimate--we may classify the contents as household coal, steam coal, or those employed in steam-engine boilers, and coking coal, employed for making coke and gas. One of the most recent improvements is the Turbine, a sort of Barker's mill; it is of great power, small compass, and acts under a good fall with a minimum expenditure of water-power. keywords: air; art; body; coal; communication; day; engine; feet; force; form; heat; man; means; mind; particles; penny; place; power; present; press; pressure; produce; science; steam; time; tons; use; vessel; water; way; work; world; years cache: 15468.txt plain text: 15468.txt item: #3 of 14 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: #4 of 14 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: #5 of 14 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: #6 of 14 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: #7 of 14 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: #8 of 14 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: #9 of 14 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: #10 of 14 id: 42317 author: Varnum, William H. (William Harrison) title: Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen date: None words: 53208 flesch: 66 summary: The process should be used with caution, for over-modeling, Figure 325, will obstruct the structural outlines and, because of its over prominence as decoration, will cease to be _surface enrichment_. The surface enrichment of small, flat primary masses treated in Chapter XIII emphasized the designer's tendency for _full_ surface enrichment of small areas. keywords: appendage; axis; center; chroma; clay; color; concentration; contour; contour enrichment; design; divisions; enrichment rule; figure; forms; horizontal; hue; hues; illustration; lines; mass; masses; metal; outline enrichment; panel; plate; point; rectangle; rule; sidenote; surface enrichment; unity; use; value; vertical; wood cache: 42317.txt plain text: 42317.txt item: #11 of 14 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: #12 of 14 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: #13 of 14 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: #14 of 14 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