Cassier's Magazine, Τόμος 33

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Cassier Magazine Company, 1908
 

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Σελίδα 658 - We recommend that hereafter any plans for the use of inland waterways in connection with inter-State commerce shall regard the streams of the country as an asset of the people, shall take full account of the conservation of all resources connected with running waters, and shall look to the protection of these resources from monopoly and to their administration in the interests of the people.
Σελίδα 615 - My situation now is, my hands are free to burn, sink, and destroy whom I please, and I shall now seriously set about giving liberty to the seas by publishing my system of attack. I have or will have when Mr. Parker sends my two thousand pounds 500 sterling a year with a steam engine and pictures worth two thousand pounds. Therefore I am not in a state to be pitied.
Σελίδα 287 - To accomplish this, two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any way to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood, or iron, or smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day. Engines will drive boats ten or twelve miles per hour, and there will be many hundred steamboats running on the Mississippi.
Σελίδα 658 - We recommend that hereafter plans for the improvement of navigation in inland waterways, or for any use of these waterways in connection with interstate commerce, shall take account of the purification of the waters, the development of power, the control of floods, the reclamation of lands by irrigation and drainage, and all other uses of the waters or benefits to be derived from their control.
Σελίδα 655 - Wherever water is now or will hereafter become the chief source of power the monopolization of electricity produced from running streams involves monopoly of power for the transportation of freight and passengers, for manufacturing, and for supplying...
Σελίδα 615 - Should such an event happen, I have left you the means to publish these works, with engravings, in a handsome manner, and to which you will add your own ideas — showing how the liberty of the seas may be gained by such means...
Σελίδα 287 - The time will come when people will travel in stages, moved by steam engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour.
Σελίδα 656 - ... 21. The benefits of a comprehensive system of waterway improvement will extend to all the people in the several sections and States of the country, and the means employed should be devised, so far as possible, to distribute the cost equitably through cooperation between Federal agencies, States, municipalities, communities, corporations, and individuals.
Σελίδα 587 - ... producer, which thus makes it possible to utilize low-grade coals and lignites that have heretofore been regarded as practically useless. Several of the poorest grades of bituminous coals have shown remarkable efficiency in the gas producer, and lignites and peat have been used in it with great...
Σελίδα 5 - A machine is a combination of resistant bodies so arranged that by their means the mechanical forces of nature can be compelled to do work accompanied by certain determinate motions.

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