The Exposition of 1851: Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of EnglandJ. Murray, 1851 - 289 pagina's |
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Pagina 265 - The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to make this engine the executive right-hand of abstract algebra, is the introduction into it of the principle which Jacquard devised for regulating, by means of punched cards, the most complicated patterns in the fabrication of brocaded stuffs.
Pagina 169 - IT is not a bad definition of man to describe him as a tool-making animal. His earliest contrivances to support uncivilized life, were tools of the simplest and rudest construction. His latest achievements in the substitution of machinery, not merely for the skill of the human hand, but for the relief of the human intellect, are founded on the use of tools of a still higher order.
Pagina 5 - G.) Cairo, Petra, and Damascus, described from Notes made during a Tour in those Countries : with Remarks on the Government of Mehemet Ali, and on the present prospects of Syria.
Pagina 4 - Histories are constructed on a plan which is novel and we think well chosen, and we are glad to find that they are deservedly popular, for they cannot be too strongly recommended."— Journal of Education* A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE FIRST INVASION BY THE ROMANS.
Pagina 10 - It is to the munificence of these two princes that the Royal Society of London, and the Academy of Sciences at Paris...
Pagina 8 - The publication of this system forms an epoch in geological research. . . The author has developed the first broad outlines of a new system of classification, capable of effecting for geology what the natural system of Jussieu had effected for botany. It is a work which must necessarily become a standard for geologists.