 The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. , like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts ; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.  The Century: 1908 - 792. lappuse1908Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Robert Fulton - 1796 - 212 lapas
...among levers, fcrews, wedges, wheels, &c. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, confidering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement tranfmits a new idea to the world. It It is for want of this difcrimination, that many a worthy man,... | |
 | 1908 - 984 lapas
...chance if the ideas arc awakened to a sense of particular errors. But in such case, it is fortunate when they arise in a mind active to investigate and which...of ignorant insignificance ; for men of the least penius are ever the first to deprecate and the last to commend : and for an obvious reason, they have... | |
 | Alice Crary Sutcliffe - 1909 - 402 lapas
...chance if the ideas are awakened to a sense of particular errors. But in such case, it is fortunate when they arise in a mind active to investigate and which...demeanor is tormented by the criticism of ignorant insignif1cance; for men of the least genius are ever the first to deprecate and the last to commend... | |
 | Alice Crary Sutcliffe - 1909 - 406 lapas
...chance if the ideas are awakened to a sense of particular errors. But in such case, it is fortunate when they arise in a mind active to investigate and which...transmits a new idea to the world. It is for want 305 of this discrimination that many a worthy man of easy demeanor is tormented by the criticism of... | |
 | 1919 - 424 lapas
...from making important discoveries." His idea of the mechanic as an inventor is also an inspiring one. "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws,...new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world." Loyal to his own country amid foreign scenes, his thoughts dwelt upon a way in which to protect America... | |
 | Andreas Schüler - 1990 - 310 lapas
...verstanden. Er schrieb: The mechanic should sit down among levers, serews, wedges, wheels, etc., likc a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering...them as the exhibition of his thoughts, in which a ne w arrangement transmits a new idea to the world."28 Dabei fällt der Begabung zur räumlichen Vorstellung... | |
 | Robert John Weber, David N. Perkins - 1992 - 362 lapas
...successful steamboats, is illuminating: As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old ... the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws,...new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world. (Quoted in Philip, 1985, frontispiece) Fulton seems to be saying that invention can result from the... | |
 | Robert J. Weber - 1993 - 292 lapas
...about the importance of parts: As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old . . . the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws,...new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world. Well put indeed, so let's begin with the structure and function of parts. The first and simplest case... | |
 | Mara Beller, Robert S. Cohen, Jürgen Renn - 1993 - 380 lapas
...a steamboat inventor and an artist as well as an inventor, urged the craftsman and the inventor to "sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc.,...new arrangement transmits a new Idea to the world" (Hindle 1983, 135).3 Christopher Polhem, an eighteenth-century Swedish engineer, constructed an alphabet... | |
 | Eugene S. Ferguson - 1994 - 264 lapas
...fame also expressed the idea of a mechanical alphabet. Brooke Hindle (n. 12 above, p. 135) quotes him: "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws,...new arrangement transmits a new Idea to the world." 30. R. Tresse, "Le Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers et la Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie... | |
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