Technological Trends and National Policy: Including the Social Implications of New Inventions. June, 1937U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 388 sider |
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... hand , perhaps , other reasons for anticipating a premature death of an invention are more discernible than in the case of a human infant . Naturally the nearer the end of its evolution the easier it is to pick the successful inventions ...
... hand , perhaps , other reasons for anticipating a premature death of an invention are more discernible than in the case of a human infant . Naturally the nearer the end of its evolution the easier it is to pick the successful inventions ...
Side 7
... hand at attempting to indicate the technological trends in certain rather large areas of advance . The importance of such attempts lies in the great significance of technology for government , industry , and the other social ...
... hand at attempting to indicate the technological trends in certain rather large areas of advance . The importance of such attempts lies in the great significance of technology for government , industry , and the other social ...
Side 8
... hand , the differential diffusion of these methods leads to a contribution of one - half the popu- lation of the next generation by one - quarter of the present generation , and that one - quarter is made up disproportionately of those ...
... hand , the differential diffusion of these methods leads to a contribution of one - half the popu- lation of the next generation by one - quarter of the present generation , and that one - quarter is made up disproportionately of those ...
Side 11
... hand an invention will not be used if there is no need or if a desire for it cannot be stimulated . There must be some receptivity for a discovery before its influence can be felt , particularly the primary influence . The derivative ...
... hand an invention will not be used if there is no need or if a desire for it cannot be stimulated . There must be some receptivity for a discovery before its influence can be felt , particularly the primary influence . The derivative ...
Side 30
... hand to receive orders and perhaps to show further goods by point - to - point wired television . If informal agreements and consumer pressure do not operate to keep sales talks within bounds there may be new demands for government ...
... hand to receive orders and perhaps to show further goods by point - to - point wired television . If informal agreements and consumer pressure do not operate to keep sales talks within bounds there may be new demands for government ...
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Side 48 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Side 46 - As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the buildingyard, while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule.
Side 46 - The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton Folly.
Side 41 - ... and strong. The means of stopping these heavy carriages without a great shock, and of preventing them from running upon each other (for there would be many on the road at once) would be very difficult.
Side 46 - Yesterday week my iron boat was launched. It answers all my expectations, and has convinced the unbelievers who were 999 in a thousand. It will be only a nine days...
Side 186 - L = the distance between the first and last axles of a vehicle or combination of vehicles, in feet. "A value of 700 is recommended for 'c' as the lowest which should be imposed, but this should not be construed as inhibiting greater values.
Side 42 - Twenty miles an hour, sir — why you will not be able to keep an apprentice boy at his work! Every Saturday evening he must have a trip to Ohio to spend a Sunday with his sweetheart. Grave plodding citizens will be flying about like comets.
Side 47 - The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force can be united in a practicable machine by which men shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.
Side 3 - Not all parts of our organization are changing at the same speed, or at the same time. Some are rapidly moving forward and others are lagging. These unequal rates of change in economic life, in government, in education, in science and religion make zones of danger and points of tension...
Side 298 - I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting. The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.