The Making of America, Band 7Robert Marion La Follette Making of America, 1906 |
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... received abundant aid . The improvement of the telescope , the discovery of the law of gravitation , and the invention of logarithms had made possible the notable ad- vances marking the close of the seventeenth century . The in ...
... received abundant aid . The improvement of the telescope , the discovery of the law of gravitation , and the invention of logarithms had made possible the notable ad- vances marking the close of the seventeenth century . The in ...
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... receiving signals . Several years later Professor Morse , dreaming night and day of the telegraph , was experimenting with Moll's electro- magnet and finding only discouragement . His colleague , Pro- fessor Gale , advised him to ...
... receiving signals . Several years later Professor Morse , dreaming night and day of the telegraph , was experimenting with Moll's electro- magnet and finding only discouragement . His colleague , Pro- fessor Gale , advised him to ...
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... received of the " father of American geology . " The work was one of many years ' duration . He crossed the Allegheny mountains fifty times , and visited almost every state and territory in the union . He traced the great groups of ...
... received of the " father of American geology . " The work was one of many years ' duration . He crossed the Allegheny mountains fifty times , and visited almost every state and territory in the union . He traced the great groups of ...
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... received with great ac- claim . Thirteen months were spent in the United States , Canada and Nova Scotia , during which time he worked hard as an observer and recorder . The science had meanwhile grown to gigantic proportions since he ...
... received with great ac- claim . Thirteen months were spent in the United States , Canada and Nova Scotia , during which time he worked hard as an observer and recorder . The science had meanwhile grown to gigantic proportions since he ...
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... received his impetus from British sources during a visit to England in 1815 . In estimating the place of the elder Bond among scientific men it is necessary to take into account the circumstances which surrounded him . He was born in ...
... received his impetus from British sources during a visit to England in 1815 . In estimating the place of the elder Bond among scientific men it is necessary to take into account the circumstances which surrounded him . He was born in ...
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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.