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The work, however, is by no means valueless to readers of limited mathematical knowledge. These will be obliged to omit certain demonstrations, and content themselves with the results of the inquiry. They will find the main part of the work entirely intelligible.
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Excerpt from Water-Power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of Flowing Water
The work, however, is by no means valueless to readers of limited mathematical knowledge. These will be obliged to omit certain demonstrations, and content themselves with the results of the inquiry. They will find the main part of the work entirely intelligible.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Water-Power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of Flowing Water
Water-power, which was formerly the chief reliance of mankind in industry, has been greatly overshadowed in recent times by the cheapness of coal and the development of the steam-engine. This condition, while permanent to all immediate practical intents, is nevertheless, upon a broad view of the subject, merely temporary. Two hundred and fifty years ago, when unbroken forests stretched from the Penobscot to the Wabash, the idea of a scarcity of wood and timber appeared grotesque. At the present day, the idea of the exhaustion of existing deposits of coal appears equally so. Nevertheless that time will certainly come. Our deposits of coal are finite; every ton taken from the mines leaves a ton less to be mined. Coal does not have the power of reproduction even to the extent that wood and timber have. It does not, like water have the power of rising in the form of vapor after having developed energy by descending. Coal deposits are simply an enormous store of fuel in rapid process of destruction by fire. Water, on the other hand, will continue to stand mankind in good stead long after the reluctant earth has yielded up its last ton of coal; at least, long after coal has become too inaccessible and consequently too expensive to be used for power.
Recent remarkable developments in electricity and other modes of transmitting mechanical energy have recalled water-power to something like its former position in industrial economy.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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