Great Inventions and DiscoveriesCharles E. Merrill Company, 1911 - 206 páginas |
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Alfred Vail America anæsthetic ancient Annapolis Junction apparatus astronomers balloon Baltimore began Bell boat born Boston bronze cable called cannon century Charles Goodyear Christ civilization Clermont clocks Columbus cotton cotton-gin discovered discovery dollars early earth Edison Egyptians electric telegraph Elisha Gray England English Europe father feet Field fire Fulton gave George Stephenson Goodyear Greek guns Haarlem honor hundred improved invention inventor iron lived locomotive machinery manufacture match ment metal miles modern Morse Morton navigation Neptune newspaper night ocean paper passengers patent photograph pilum planets produced railroad railway reaper river Robert Fulton Romans rubber sail Samuel F. B. Morse sent sewing machine ships shorthand steam engine steamboat steel stenography Stephen Vail stone success sword telegraph telephone thousand tion train United Vail vessel voyage Washington Watt weapon Whitney William T. G. Morton wire York
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Página 106 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : " Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say...
Página 193 - Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
Página 30 - may go and play," While I manage the world by myself. But harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain.
Página 166 - Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen and ink sky-rocket stood for disadvantageous.
Página 107 - It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!
Página 31 - Time — space — have yielded to my power—- The world ! the world is mine ! The rivers the sun hath earliest blest, Or those where his beams decline ; The giant streams of the queenly West, Or the orient floods divine.
Página 107 - Sail on ! sail on ! sail on ! and on !' " They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, Until, at last, the blanched mate said : "Why, now not even God would know Should I and all my men fall dead. These very winds forget their way, For God, from these dread seas, is gone. Now speak, brave Adm'r'l ; speak and say — " He said : "Sail on ! sail on ! and on !" They sailed ! They sailed ! Then spake the mate : "This mad sea shows his teeth to-night.
Página 15 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up, on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 144 - ... inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion. From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness, have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off; our capitals have increased, and our lands trebled themselves in value.
Página 144 - Is there a man who hears us who has not experienced its utility ? the whole interior of the southern states was languishing, and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion. From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment.