Leading Pursuits and Leading Men: A Treatise on the Principal Trades and Manufactures of the United StatesEdwin Troxell Freedley |
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Page 121 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Page 102 - And after a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches, and rid in them up and down the countries, to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then, by little and little, they grew usual among the nobility and others of sort, and within twenty years became a great trade of coachmaking.
Page 152 - The thesis, with the evidence of apprenticeship and diploma fee, shall be deposited with the senior professor of the school on or before the twentieth of February, of the session in which the application shall be made. He must also be recommended in writing by the committee of examination and the professors jointly, and if his application be finally approved of by the board of trustees, he shall receive the diploma of the college.
Page 24 - ... acceptance and use. Though he make no profit directly on the sale of these, he is indirectly but substantially benefited by whatsoever shall increase the- annual production of his township, and thus the ability of his customers to purchase and consume his goods. The merchant whose customers and neighbors are enabled to turn off three, five, seven or nine hundred dollars' worth of produce per annum from farms which formerly yielded but one or two hundred dollars...
Page 21 - ... United States 124,893,405 pounds of cotton. In 1849 the export was 1,026,602,269 pounds. These figures show an increase of more than 800 per cent. in 28 years in the surplus production of the most important commercial staple of the country and the world. At this time an average crop of cotton maybe estimated at 3,000,000 bales, of 400 pounds each; and the prospect is that the demand will equal, if it does not exceed, the supply for many years. Hence the production of this article is destined...
Page 155 - All that is received under the name of precipitated sulphur, (or " lac sulphur," as the merchants commonly term it,) except when it is expressly ordered, from an honorable manufacturer, contains from 80 to 95 per cent, of sulphate of lime. Opium is often invoiced at one-third the value of good quality, and is found upon examination not to be worth even that. The same may be said of scammony. Most of the foreign extracts are not what they profess to be, and cannot be relied upon in the treatment of...
Page 243 - Some months lifter this he presented a specimen of his improved tube to the agent of the company, with a view of disposing of it to them. The agent, pleased with his success, advised him to turn his attention to an improved mode of manufacturing rubber. From that time Mr.
Page 67 - In all kinds of paper-making, whether from the bark of trees or other fibrous matter, or from rags, the general process is the same. The fibrous material is cut and bruised in water till it is separated into fine and short filaments, and becomes a sort of pulp. This pulp is taken up in a thin and even layer upon a mould of...
Page 337 - Jenks' ring spindle is, however, superseding both, inasmuch as that it produces more and better yarn. The spindle of this improved frame has no fly, but has a small steel ring, called a traveller, about a quarter of an inch in diameter, with a slit for the insertion of the thread, which is wound by the ring travelling around the bobbin, being held in its horizontal plane, during its circuit, by an iron ring loosely embraced by its lower end and fastened upon the traversing rail, being sufficiently...