XIV. SIMPLICITY OF GREAT INVENTIONS AND OF NATURE'S MANIFESTATION · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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Invention Precedes Science. Simplicity in Inventions. The Telegraph. Telephone. Transmitter. Phonograph. Wireless Telegraphy. Printing Telegraph. Electric Motor. Explosions. Vibrations in Nature. Qualities of Sound. The Photographer's Plate. Quadruplex Telegraphy. Electric Harmony ...
THE SIMPLICITY OF GREAT INVENTIONS, AND OF NATURE'S MANIFESTATIONS · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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... It is the very simplicity in most of the problems which long served as a bar to discovery in many of the arts. So extremely simple have been some of the keys that many ...
"EDW'D LLOYD." · Greeno, Follett L. (Follett Lamberton), 1889- [Editor] · 2006
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... used a Reaping Machine, and know from experience that the most important qualities are _strength and _simplicity_. In these respects your machine is superior to any other, and is the only one I have ...
THE SIMPLICITY OF GREAT INVENTIONS, AND OF NATURE'S MANIFESTATIONS · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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If an article is tasteless, it means that these filaments do not vibrate. These vibrations are of two kinds. They may move faster or slower, or they may move in a peculiar way. A ...
WITH A NOTICE OF THE CELEBRATED SWISS AIR · George Vasey · 1851
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... Cet air, quoique toujours le meme, ne produit plus aujourd'hui les memes effets qu'il produisait ci-devant sur les Suisses, parce qu'ayant perdu le gout de leur premiere simplicite, ils ne ...
“TAG” INDICATING THERMOMETERS · W. G. Hier · 1911
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... are extremely accurate and reliable= because they have been designed along sound and correct principles, also due to their simplicity of construction.
Uniformity of results is assured= because these instruments faithfully record every temperature ...
... In many gardens plants appear year after year from self-sown seeds, and it will therefore be evident that Mignonette may be grown with the utmost simplicity. As a border plant we have but ...
... It is simplicity itself. A stout wire is stretched five or six feet above the ground; to this the single main trunks of the vine run up, and along it are stretched the two ...
REQUIREMENTS REFORM MUST MEET · Allen, E. T. (Edward Tyson), 1875-1942 · 2006
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... 6. Demonstrable justice to all concerned, rather than subsidy which, while doubtless warrantable to secure the public good, affords less precise basis of legislation at the present time.
7. Simplicity in adoption and operation.
[Illustration: PLATE XXVII. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS AND SUTURES.] · United States Bureau of Animal Industry · 1908
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... Owing to the simplicity of the structure of the foot of an ox compared with that of the horse, this disease is rarely seen in an acute form, but a mild form, commonly called ...
... The simplicity of its instructions, the comprehensiveness of its subject, and the accuracy of its details, together with its perfect arrangement, conciseness, attractiveness and cheapness make it the most desirable of all legal hand ...
THE SIMPLICITY OF GREAT INVENTIONS, AND OF NATURE'S MANIFESTATIONS · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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TRANSMITTER.--The transmitter is merely a sensitized instrument. It depends solely on the principle of light contact points in an electric circuit, whereby the vibrations of the voice are augmented.
PHONOGRAPH.--The phonograph is ...
... THE SIMPLICITY AND STRENGTH of the brace proposed by J. Parker Gordon is in sharp contrast to the heavily splinted sides of the wooden brace commonly used in mid-19th-century America. (Original patent ...
... a wonderfully readable book, _Factors in Soil Formation._ These days, academic agricultural scientists conceal the basic simplicity of their knowledge by unnecessarily expressing their data with exotic verbiage and higher mathematics. In Jenny's ...
... This one, slim volume expresses with elegant and passionate simplicity all of the basic beliefs of the organic gardening and farming movement. See also her _Albert Howard in India.
THE SIMPLICITY OF GREAT INVENTIONS, AND OF NATURE'S MANIFESTATIONS · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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Since the great telephone controversy which took place some years ago there has been a wonderful development in the knowledge of acoustics, or sounds. It was shown that the slightest sound would immediately set ...
THE SIMPLICITY OF GREAT INVENTIONS, AND OF NATURE'S MANIFESTATIONS · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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ELECTRIC MOTOR.--The direct current electric motor depends for its action on the principle that likes repel, and unlikes attract. The commutator so arranges the poles that at the proper points, in the revolution ...
NOTE UPON THE ROMAN AGRONOMISTS · Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro · 1918
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... Sabine farm, and although of a well to do family, was bred in the habits of simplicity and rural industry with which the poets have made that name synonymous. All his life he amused ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
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... This method is of the greatest simplicity, whatever has been possible to be said of it, and whoever will become thoroughly familiar with the escutcheon of the first order of each class, will be ...
CHAPTER IV · Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 · 2003
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... and Lizzie" to his care, and bidding him good bye in words the sadder for their simplicity. He added a few lines, with steady hand, and, as I sealed it, said, with a patient ...
ROOFING TRUSSES · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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... A large dome is grand, owing to its great simplicity, but the same plain outlines, or lack of ornamentation, in the ceiling of a square or rectangular building would be painful to view, hence ...
OXEN ON A NEW ENGLAND FARM · Herbert A. Shearer · 1918
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... The best mechanical inventions often pass without notice because of their simplicity. Farmers have used logging chains for generations with hooks made on this plan without realizing that they were profiting by a high ...
VII. THE FEED INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES · Frank Webster Farley · 1918
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... The problem of feeding domestic animals, as well as human beings, was simplicity itself, in fact it was not a problem. We had more land than we knew what to do with. The owner ...
SPECIAL TOOLS AND THEIR USES · Zerbe, James Slough, 1849-1921 · 2007
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... 270. "Odd Job" Tool._]
Figure 270 shows the simplicity of the tool, and how it is applied in use.
BIT BRACES.--These tools are now made with so many improved features that there is ...