The Making of America, Band 7Robert Marion La Follette Making of America, 1906 |
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... Century . .1 .24 .40 ... 47 ... 56 ..67 ... 84 BY MICHAEL A. LANE ..... ..91 Wizard of the Garden . BY HOLLIS W. FIELD .... ..105 History of Electricity in America . BY GEORGE HERBERT STOCKBRIDGE .. 109 The Development of Industrial ...
... Century . .1 .24 .40 ... 47 ... 56 ..67 ... 84 BY MICHAEL A. LANE ..... ..91 Wizard of the Garden . BY HOLLIS W. FIELD .... ..105 History of Electricity in America . BY GEORGE HERBERT STOCKBRIDGE .. 109 The Development of Industrial ...
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... century . In accordance with this action , the leading scientific men of the country met in Phil- adelphia , September 20 , 1848 , and instituted " The American Association for the Advancement of Science . " Such was the origin of the ...
... century . In accordance with this action , the leading scientific men of the country met in Phil- adelphia , September 20 , 1848 , and instituted " The American Association for the Advancement of Science . " Such was the origin of the ...
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... century later by the railway and the telegraph , which gave a stronger unity than political faith or governmental doctrine . The progress of the nation during the half century is be- yond parallel . By normal growth and peaceful ...
... century later by the railway and the telegraph , which gave a stronger unity than political faith or governmental doctrine . The progress of the nation during the half century is be- yond parallel . By normal growth and peaceful ...
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... century but of No key ever unlocked sublimer revelations or more vistas than this instrument which opened the doc new astronomy . A few of the principal advances in science , ma last fifty years , may be noted . Europe and America have ...
... century but of No key ever unlocked sublimer revelations or more vistas than this instrument which opened the doc new astronomy . A few of the principal advances in science , ma last fifty years , may be noted . Europe and America have ...
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... century's discoveries of asteroids and planetary satellites and comets , of which America has done the greater part . The prophecy of American pres- tige in astronomy came in 1860 , when Newcomb reduced the orbits of the asteroids to a ...
... century's discoveries of asteroids and planetary satellites and comets , of which America has done the greater part . The prophecy of American pres- tige in astronomy came in 1860 , when Newcomb reduced the orbits of the asteroids to a ...
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Seite 288 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Seite 375 - Any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, not known or used by others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Seite 8 - European species which infests many different plants, and it is spread throughout our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Seite 277 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Seite 36 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 42 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Seite 363 - Board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General. The Board members have the power to issue a patent, "if they shall deem the invention or discovery sufficiently useful and important," for a period not to exceed 14 years.
Seite 96 - To determine the question whether the clouds that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to be tried where it may be done conveniently.
Seite 257 - to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries...
Seite 277 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.