Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-book Exhibiting the Development, Variety, and Statistics of the Manufacturing Industry of Philadelphia in 1857. Together with Sketches of Remarkable Manufactories; and a List of Articles Now Made in Philadelphia

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E. Young, 1859 - 514 pages
 

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Page 27 - 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.
Page 312 - ... has been previously heated to a temperature as high as that of the wheels when taken from the moulds. As soon as they are deposited in this furnace or chamber, the opening through which they have been passed is closed, and the temperature of the furnace...
Page 80 - The ball gathered strength by rolling, young and old were smitten with the desire to march upon the new Peru, rout the aborigines, and sate themselves with wealth. They had merely to go, and play the game boldly, to secure their utmost desire. Rumor declared that Pipkins was worth millions, made in a few months, although he had not a sixpence to begin with, or to keep grim want from dancing in his pocket. Fortune kept her court in the mountains of Schuylkill county, and all who paid their respects...
Page 463 - But these pictures of law-attorneys, found so frequently in light literature, furnish the unknowing with a very erroneous estimate of the average character of the legal profession. These seeming caricatures have had, and still...
Page 383 - The quantity of soap consumed by a nation would be no inaccurate measure whereby to estimate its wealth and civilization.
Page 150 - Pusey, Caleb. Satan's Harbinger encountered; his false news of a trumpet detected ; his crooked Ways in the Wilderness laid open to the View of the impartial and judicious. Being something by Way of answer to Daniel Leeds, his book, entitled News of a trumpet sounding in the Wilderness, &c.
Page 102 - Cumberland" mines. The anthracite was the kind known as " White Ash Schuylkill." From the preceding data, it appears that in regard to the rapidity of "getting up" steam, the anthracite exceeds the bituminous thirty-six per cent. That in economical evaporation per unit of fuel, the anthracite exceeds the bituminous in the proportion of 7-478 to 4'483 or 66'8 per cent.
Page 36 - ... 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...
Page 81 - They were, to be sure, located in the pathless forests; but the future Broadways and Pall Malls were marked upon the trees: and it was anticipated that the time was not far distant when the deers, bears and wild-cats would be obliged to give place, and take the gutter side of the belles and beaux of the new cities. How beautifully the towns, yet unborn, looked upon paper! — the embryo squares, flaunting in pink and yellow, like a tulip show at Amsterdam; and the broad streets intersecting each...
Page 276 - BOTTLES, by the ancients, were made of skins and leather : they are now chiefly made of thick glass, of the cheapest kind, and formed of the most ordinary materials. It is composed of sand, with lime, and sometimes clay, and alkaline ashes of any kind, such as kelp, barilla, or even wood ashes. The green color is owing partly to the impurities in the ashes, but chiefly to oxyde of iron.

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