The Great Industries of the United States: Being an Historical Summary of the Origin, Growth, and Perfection of the Chief Industrial Arts of this Country |
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American Babcock and Wilcox bell brushes called cast cast iron cent century chief cloth coal color Company construction copper cotton cylinder dollars early England engraving establishment Europe factory feet fifty fire engines firm GATLING GUN glass gold hand heat HENRY DISSTON hundred important improvements inches increased industry introduced invention inventor iron kind known labor letters patent loom machine machinery manufacture Mason & Hamlin Massachusetts material mechanical ment Messrs metal method mill millions modern operation organization ornamental paper patent perfect Philadelphia pieces plate plow pounds present printing produced purpose quantity railroad roll screw sewing sewing machines silica silk soap starch steam engine steel Steinway & Sons success sugar supply surface thickness thousand thread tion trip hammer turpentine United various varnish wares weight wheel wire wood wool York
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Page 530 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 1080 - England, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable on demand or at any less time than six months from the borrowing thereof...
Page 405 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 414 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 288 - And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
Page 1130 - And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord : and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
Page 96 - where the song of the boatman would enliven the stillness of his resting place, and the music of the steam engine soothe his spirit.
Page 896 - Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Page 520 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 915 - And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.