Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
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... in promoting social advancement through the success of invention . The same habit will also generally have the effect of rendering the searcher more diffident in any claims which he may entertain as to the PREFACE . vii.
... in promoting social advancement through the success of invention . The same habit will also generally have the effect of rendering the searcher more diffident in any claims which he may entertain as to the PREFACE . vii.
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... rendered the latter half of the eighteenth century so noteworthy in an in- dustrial sense . It brought artistic designs in articles of common use within the reach of even poor people , and has been the means of unconsciously improving ...
... rendered the latter half of the eighteenth century so noteworthy in an in- dustrial sense . It brought artistic designs in articles of common use within the reach of even poor people , and has been the means of unconsciously improving ...
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... rendered himself permanently ineligible for Parliamentary honours through taking Holy Orders , and with a miscellaneous mass of topics relating to the merely evanescent politics of the day . The whole of the effects of invention and ...
... rendered himself permanently ineligible for Parliamentary honours through taking Holy Orders , and with a miscellaneous mass of topics relating to the merely evanescent politics of the day . The whole of the effects of invention and ...
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... render them uni- versally useful as are the locomotive and the steam - ship . In nearly every other important line of human needs and desires it will be found that merely tentative efforts have been made by ingenious minds resulting in ...
... render them uni- versally useful as are the locomotive and the steam - ship . In nearly every other important line of human needs and desires it will be found that merely tentative efforts have been made by ingenious minds resulting in ...
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... rendered by other men is ever attempted . It is not even as if the commanding general should by public acclamation receive all the applause for a successful campaign to the exclusion of his lieutenants . The pioneers in each great ...
... rendered by other men is ever attempted . It is not even as if the commanding general should by public acclamation receive all the applause for a successful campaign to the exclusion of his lieutenants . The pioneers in each great ...
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