Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-book of the Great Manufactories and Representative Mercantile Houses of Philadelphia in 1867E. Young, 1867 - 634 páginas |
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advantages AGENTS American annually apparatus ARCH STREET Artificial Limbs assortment Boiler Books branch Brass Bridesburg building Carriage Cassimeres Castings cents Chemicals CHESTNUT STREET Christopher Sower Clothing coal Coal Regions colors construction Copper Cotton cylinder DEALERS Delaware dollars employed Engines England erected establishment extensive facilities factories facture feet finished firm Foundry Frankford front furnished Germantown hands Hoop Skirts Hosiery hundred and fifty HUNSWORTH important improvements Iron JOBBERS kinds labor largest leading looms machine machinery manu manufac manufacture MARKET STREET material merchants Messrs nearly North operations Organzine Paper Patent Pennsylvania Phila Philadelphia Plate Plated Wares Port Richmond principal production proprietors published Railroad Schuylkill Sheet Silk Soap South Steam Steel style superior supply THIRD STREET thousand tion tons Tools trade Union United United States Mint variety Ware White Lead WHOLESALE Wire wood Woolen York
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Página 21 - In my own time," says Seneca, "there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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Página 94 - COMPARISON. The coals used in these experiments were the kinds furnished by the agents of the Government for the use of the United States Navy Yard and Steamers, and was taken indiscriminately from the piles in the yard, without assorting. The bituminous was from the " Cumberland" mines. The anthracite was the kind known as
Página 30 - ... multitude of valuable horses would have been worn out in doing the service of these machines ! and what a vast quantity of grain would they have consumed ! Had British industry not been aided by Watt's invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would long ere now, have experienced, in the price of horses, and scarcity of water-falls, an insurmountable barrier to further advancement ; could horses, even at the low prices to...
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