 | 1829 - 500 lapas
...men differ with the manner in which these efforts are employed. It has been shown by Mr. R. Buchanan that the same quantity of human labour employed in...The relative values of the labour of a horse and man are variously stated. Some estimate them as five to one, some six to one, and some seven to one. Perhaps... | |
 | 1829 - 522 lapas
...men differ with the manner in which these efforts are employed. It has been shown by Mr. R. Buchanan that the same quantity of human labour employed in...a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers 100, 1G7, 227, and 248. The most advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the act of rowing.... | |
 | 1829 - 522 lapas
...men differ with the manner in which these efforts are employed. It has been shown by Mr. R. Buchanan that the same quantity of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a winch, ringing a tjell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers 100, 167, 227, and 248. The most advantageous manner of... | |
 | Sir John Leslie - 1829 - 556 lapas
...Mr Buchanan, the exertions of a man in working a pump, in turning a winch, in ringing a bell, and in rowing a boat, are as the numbers 100, 167, 227, and 248. But those efforts appear to have been continued for no great length of time. The Greek seamen in the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 324 lapas
...R. Buchanan, that the same quantities of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a wheel, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers...advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the art of rowing. — The strength of an ordinary man walking in an horizontal direction, and with his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1831 - 302 lapas
...R. Buchanan, that the same quantities of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a wheel, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers...advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the art of rowing. — The strength of an ordinary man walking in an horizontal direction, and with his... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 650 lapas
...Mr. Buchanan, the exertions of a man in working a pump, in turning a winch, in ringing a bell, and in rowing a boat, are as the numbers 100, 167, 227, and 248. But those efforts appear to have been continued for no great length of time. The Greek seamen, in the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 lapas
...R. Buchanan, that the same quantities of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a wheel, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers...advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the art of rowing. — The strength of an ordinary man walking in an horizontal direction, and with his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 332 lapas
...R. Buchanan, that the same quantities of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a wheel, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers...advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the art of rowing. — The strength of an ordinary man walking in an horizontal direction, and with his... | |
 | John M. Moffat - 1834 - 530 lapas
...1'rom some experiments made by Mr. Robertson Buchanan, it was ascertained that the labour of a man employed in working a pump, turning a winch, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, might be represented respectively by the numbers 100, 167, 227, and 248. Hence it appears that the... | |
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Buchanan that the same quantity of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a winch, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers 100, 167, 227, and 248. The most advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the act of rowing. 
