The Application of Science to the Production and Consumption of Food (Classic Reprint): An Address by Edward Atkinson, Vice President, Chairman, ... of Science at the Ann Arbor Meeting - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Application of Science to the Production and Consumption of Food: An Address by Edward Atkinson, Vice President, Chairman, Section I., Economic Science and Statistics, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Ann Arbor Meeting, August, 1885

The driven well, which may hereafter make many a desert blos som like the rose.

The application of the diamond drill, worked by steam or com pressed air to the boring of these wells, and also to mining.
The use of nitro-glycerine, or other high explosives in mining.

The application Of steam or hydraulic power to the derrick or the crane for handling heavy weights, and for loading and unload ing vessels.

The introduction of the elevator, lift or vertical railway into hotels, office buildings and warehouses, whereby the aggregate rent of land has been reduced, although the special rent of particular places may have been increased.

Not least among the developments of this period has been the great perfection to which machine tools have been brought, ac companied or rendered possible by the adoption of standard measures and gauges, to the end that the interchangeable system has been applied to almost every kind of mechanism from the locomotive engine and the sewing machine to the finest watch. The sewing machine has become the common implement of the housewife, the seamstress, the Shoemaker and the sailmaker.

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