Industrial Biography: Iron-workers and Tool-makersTicknor and Fields, 1864 - 410 pagina's |
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Abraham Darby adopted afterwards Andrew Yarranton bar-iron became black-band Bramah bridge Brunel carried Carron cast cast-iron cast-steel charcoal Clement coal Coalbrookdale construction contrived Cort's Darby David Mushet described dexterity discovery Dud Dudley Dudley early employed employment enabled England English erected executed experience Fairbairn father firm Forest of Dean forging fuel furnace George Stephenson Glasgow hammer heat Henry Cort Henry Maudslay important improved industry introduced invention inventor iron manufacture iron-stone iron-works ironmasters James Nasmyth Jellicoe labor lathe London Lord machine machinery Manchester Maudslay's means ment metal method Mushet Nasmyth partner patent perfect pit-coal planing-machine practical principal produce purpose reverberatory furnace Reynolds Samuel Bentham says Scotland screw self-acting Sheffield shortly skill slide-rest smelting smith steam-engine steam-hammer steel succeeded success supply Sussex tion tons took turned various Watt William Fairbairn wood workmen Yarranton
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Pagina 204 - Man is a Tool-using Animal (Handthierendes Thier). Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most for the flattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain...
Pagina 206 - So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan : but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
Pagina 59 - I am sure heretofore one ship of her Majesty's was able to beat ten Spaniards ; but now, by reason of our own ordnance, we are hardly matched one to one.
Pagina 131 - The antiquity of the Indian process is no less astonishing than its ingenuity. We can hardly doubt that the tools with which the Egyptians covered their obelisks and temples of porphyry and syenite with hieroglyphics were made of Indian steel.
Pagina 214 - Bacon predicted that in the future, "machines may be made by which the largest ships, with only one man steering them, will be moved faster than if they were filled with rowers; wagons may be built which will move with incredible speed and without the aid of beasts; flying machines can be constructed in which a man . . . may beat the air with wings like a bird...
Pagina 260 - It is nearly half a century since I first became acquainted with the engineering profession, and at that time the greater part of our mechanical operations were done by hand. On my first entrance into Manchester, there were no self-acting tools ; and the whole stock of an engineering or machine establishment might be summed up in a few ill-constructed lathes, and a few drills and boring machines of rude construction.
Pagina 28 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears." But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock.
Pagina 32 - India colonies; hides or dressed leather in some other countries; and there is at this day a village in Scotland where it is not uncommon, I am told, for a workman to carry nails instead of money to the baker's shop or the alehouse.
Pagina 122 - Stephenson has said of the structure: "If we consider that the manipulation of cast-iron was then completely in its infancy, a bridge of such dimensions was doubtless a bold as well as an original undertaking, and the efficiency of the details is worthy of the boldness of the conception."* Mr.
Pagina 214 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and there is no new thing under the sun.