Political EconomyD. Appleton, 1889 - 134 Seiten |
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... machines . Chemistry teaches how useful substances may be produced - how beautiful dyes and odours and oils , for instance , may be extracted from the disagreeable refuse of the gas- works . Astronomy is necessary for the navigation of ...
... machines . Chemistry teaches how useful substances may be produced - how beautiful dyes and odours and oils , for instance , may be extracted from the disagreeable refuse of the gas- works . Astronomy is necessary for the navigation of ...
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... machines employed to make the clothes . Things are indirectly useful when , like tools , machines , materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other things , which shall be actually consumed and enjoyed by some person . The ...
... machines employed to make the clothes . Things are indirectly useful when , like tools , machines , materials , & c . , they are only wanted to make other things , which shall be actually consumed and enjoyed by some person . The ...
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... machine which moves itself . At other times science teaches us that the way in which we are trying to make some- thing is altogether the wrong way . Thus , iron - masters used to think that the best way of smelt- ing iron in the blast ...
... machine which moves itself . At other times science teaches us that the way in which we are trying to make some- thing is altogether the wrong way . Thus , iron - masters used to think that the best way of smelt- ing iron in the blast ...
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... machines , which facilitate and abridge labour , and enable one man to do the work of many . There can be no doubt as to the increase of dexterity , which arises from practice . Any one who has tried to imitate a juggler , or to play ...
... machines , which facilitate and abridge labour , and enable one man to do the work of many . There can be no doubt as to the increase of dexterity , which arises from practice . Any one who has tried to imitate a juggler , or to play ...
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... machines which abridge labour , because men , he thought , were much more likely to discover easy methods of attaining an object when their whole attention is directed to that object . But it seems doubtful how far this is correct ...
... machines which abridge labour , because men , he thought , were much more likely to discover easy methods of attaining an object when their whole attention is directed to that object . But it seems doubtful how far this is correct ...
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