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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... less than do conditions of keen competition . 11. The time lag between the first development and the full use of an invention is ofter a period of grave social and economic maladjustment , as , for example , the delay in the adoption of ...
... less than do conditions of keen competition . 11. The time lag between the first development and the full use of an invention is ofter a period of grave social and economic maladjustment , as , for example , the delay in the adoption of ...
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... less easily seen , for the number of slaves de- pends upon their availability through purchase from other lands , for which capital was required , or from natural increase , which took time . That the Civil War could have been foreseen ...
... less easily seen , for the number of slaves de- pends upon their availability through purchase from other lands , for which capital was required , or from natural increase , which took time . That the Civil War could have been foreseen ...
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... less , and reads today as a very reasonable , clear - sighted preview of the developments of the past 16 years , and of those that we would still predict today . It is hard to meas- ure the degree of correctness , from the difficulties ...
... less , and reads today as a very reasonable , clear - sighted preview of the developments of the past 16 years , and of those that we would still predict today . It is hard to meas- ure the degree of correctness , from the difficulties ...
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... less telephony , he did not mention broadcasting . There were very few others who thought of it until the opening of KDKA on election night , 1920.17 Frank Conrad had begun broadcasting soon after the war , leading to the establishment ...
... less telephony , he did not mention broadcasting . There were very few others who thought of it until the opening of KDKA on election night , 1920.17 Frank Conrad had begun broadcasting soon after the war , leading to the establishment ...
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... less and less space , or television screens growing larger and finer , we readily , confidently , and justifiedly project these trends forward a short way into the future . This is the favorite method of the more technical writers ...
... less and less space , or television screens growing larger and finer , we readily , confidently , and justifiedly project these trends forward a short way into the future . This is the favorite method of the more technical writers ...
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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.