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It was made up of men of almost all conditions of life and of widely different ages, though naturally with young men in a large majority; of mechanics from the Housatonic and Naugatuck valleys, and farmers' boys from the hills; of men of education and men of none.
There's a great future sticking out for a fellow, if he's got his head screwed on right." "So there is. Well, what shall it be? Mechanics? Fine opening for an inventive genius there but you must be up and doing, as the poet says." "You had all the chances when you were my age," replied Moriarty bitterly. "I'm too late arriving. Everything's invented now." "True," I observed.
No house or store or factory or business will be rebuilt or established except in a larger and more efficient way, and that is progress. In and around the city are already more people than were here before the fire, and soon there will be twice as many, for from every quarter are coming mechanics and business men, attracted by high wages and the material requirements of the city.
His implements, both animate and inanimate, had to be formed by himself. Peasants taken from the plough were educated by him into efficient mechanics and engineers.
Of what use is it for nimble, everyday intellects, or clumsy, honest mechanics and empiricists to press, in their plebeian ambition, close to such problems, and as it were into this "holy of holies" as so often happens nowadays!
Rules have been laid down for the coming and going of airships, and a field for land machines and water space for seaplanes have been laid out. A large aeronautical convention has already been held there. Every city in the United States will have a landing-field and hangars for airplanes, as well as mechanics to care for them.
Hammersley, who had previously been a successful teacher at Nottingham, and freed from the meddling of incompetent authorities. And now pupils anxiously crowd to receive instruction, and annually display practical evidence of the advantages they are enjoying. The Manchester Mechanics' Institution was one of the pioneers in the movement which led to the Great Exhibition.
Watkins, optician at Charing Cross, who supplied such apparatus to lecturers at Mechanics' Institutions. He gave me #35 for the model, and I added the sum to my deposit account. This little fund was quite sufficient to meet any expenses beyond those of a current weekly nature. But I was resolved that my wages alone should maintain me in food and lodging.
But his imagination leaped from the pebble to the Western continent of which the stone was a part, and from the tree to the forest in which it grew. This faculty has performed a similar work in the realm of mechanics. Watt tells us that his engine worked in his mind years before it worked in his shop.
Twenty-five shillings a week do not amount to much truly; but then many mechanics have no more, and we live quite as sparingly as journeymen mechanics... It is a meagre narrow life we are drifting into, he added gloomily, 'but it is a degree more tolerable than the worrying sensation of all the world being ashamed of you, which we experienced at Hocbridge.
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