Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
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... idea , he will always find at some antecedent date the germ , either of the same inventive conception , or of something which is hardly distinguishable from it . The habit of research into the origin of improved industrial method must ...
... idea , he will always find at some antecedent date the germ , either of the same inventive conception , or of something which is hardly distinguishable from it . The habit of research into the origin of improved industrial method must ...
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... ideas . Inventive thought has been so enormously stimulated during the past two or three generations , that the public recognition of a want invariably sets thousands of minds thinking about the possible methods of ministering to it ...
... ideas . Inventive thought has been so enormously stimulated during the past two or three generations , that the public recognition of a want invariably sets thousands of minds thinking about the possible methods of ministering to it ...
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... century has been chiefly that of selecting from out of a vast mass of heterogeneous ideas those which give promise of springing up amidst favourable conditions and of growing to large proportions and bear- ing valuable PREFACE . xi.
... century has been chiefly that of selecting from out of a vast mass of heterogeneous ideas those which give promise of springing up amidst favourable conditions and of growing to large proportions and bear- ing valuable PREFACE . xi.
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... ideas , when planted in the soil of the collective mind through the medium of official or other records , generally ... idea on which their success has been based , are of very much older origin than the world generally supposes . The ...
... ideas , when planted in the soil of the collective mind through the medium of official or other records , generally ... idea on which their success has been based , are of very much older origin than the world generally supposes . The ...
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... ideas which will move the industrial world during the next ensuing hundred years have already been indicated , more or less clearly , by the inventive thought of the nineteenth century . GEORGE SUTHERLAND . December , 1900 . CONTENTS ...
... ideas which will move the industrial world during the next ensuing hundred years have already been indicated , more or less clearly , by the inventive thought of the nineteenth century . GEORGE SUTHERLAND . December , 1900 . CONTENTS ...
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