Twentieth century inventions, a forecastLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 286 páginas |
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... improvement - to watch it as an organic growth , not only from a philosophical , but also from a practical , point of view . The advance towards the actual adoption of any great industrial invention is generally a more or less ...
... improvement - to watch it as an organic growth , not only from a philosophical , but also from a practical , point of view . The advance towards the actual adoption of any great industrial invention is generally a more or less ...
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... improvement during the twentieth century . He must , of course , expect to be wrong in a certain pro- portion of his prognostications ; but , like the meteorologists , he will be content if in a fair percentage of his forecasts it ...
... improvement during the twentieth century . He must , of course , expect to be wrong in a certain pro- portion of his prognostications ; but , like the meteorologists , he will be content if in a fair percentage of his forecasts it ...
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... improved industrial method must therefore help to strengthen the impression of the importance of gradual growth , and of general tendencies , as being the prime factors in promoting social advancement through the success of invention ...
... improved industrial method must therefore help to strengthen the impression of the importance of gradual growth , and of general tendencies , as being the prime factors in promoting social advancement through the success of invention ...
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... improvements or discoveries discussed , it should not be sup- posed that any wish is implied to detract from the merits of inventors and promoters of inven- tions , either individually or collectively . Many of these are the heroes and ...
... improvements or discoveries discussed , it should not be sup- posed that any wish is implied to detract from the merits of inventors and promoters of inven- tions , either individually or collectively . Many of these are the heroes and ...
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... improving the public taste , in matters of applied art , more rapidly than could have been accomplished by an army of trained artists . The riots in which the mob nearly drowned Jacquard at Lyons for attempting to set up some of his ...
... improving the public taste , in matters of applied art , more rapidly than could have been accomplished by an army of trained artists . The riots in which the mob nearly drowned Jacquard at Lyons for attempting to set up some of his ...
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