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A SURVEY OF MECHANICAL brokeshire, and the Egyptians rais ed the Great Pyramid are picture- DISCOVERIES.
squely explained. Descriptions are) given of Plato's alarm clock, Ple- "THE QUEAT FOR POWER."'. From lon's torsion machinegun, and the Prehistoric Times to the Pre-taximeter of Vitruvius, those in- sent Day. By flugh P. Vowles, genious anticipations of modern in Member of the Institution of ventions. Mechanical Engineers, etc., and Margaret W. Vowles. B.Sc. Illustrated. Chapman & Hall.
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The object of this inspiring work is to give a simple and connected account of man's endeavour through. the ages to any his own bodily"?
for his soul the power add empiro over soulless things. Though | Woter our strength, all bowed to the Newcomen Society and the His- our machines, tory of Science Society have done But what of the future? In a con- mych to awaken an intelligent including chapter the possibilities of terest in such investigations, no now appliances (e.g., the gas tur- comprehensive history of engineer-bine) and tapping new sources of ing-even of power engineering-power are cautiously discussed. The has yet appeared, though every unexpected may always be confident- body is Dow well aware that ly expected in the progress of civilisation is being profoundly science and its industrial applica affected by the progress of megha- tions. Engineers, the collaborators $181 nical power. Indeed, the present | believe, must play their part in the world-wide depression in commeres solution of the social problems, and industry is largely the result which are the direct results of the of the rapid development of labour-power developments for which their saving machines and the increased work is directly responsible. But production which they have made they are confident that in the end possible.
the lot of man will be happier for the now creation of super-tools, which will relieve us from all the
"The end," we are warned by the collaborators in the "present survey, "is nowhere in sight. On toil and moil of ill-paid manual the contrary, it is clear that such labour.
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The Ape's File.
Without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all," wrote Carlyle at a time when man was still tho master and not, as ho seems to-day in
some measure the slave of machinery. He can use Tools, can deviso Tools; with these the granitic mountains melts into light dust be fore him; he kneada glowing iron
Idly Langtry.
It is a vanished world that this book recalls; a world in which the crowd in Hyde Park could suddenly break into a panic because Mrs. Langtry was to be seen and some. of them were afraid of missing her The author tell how: " total
as if it were soft paste; sexs are stranger gripped my arm in pass-
Mr. Robertson moved in a small, 'aristocratic spiritually
country
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are served by him, in every sphere
Like some wan lily overdrenched
with rain,
tried medieval saints instead and cultivated pale, ascetic faces with dreamy eyes and unkempt locks."
Swinburne and Henry James.
it was an age when
when everyone, spoke as though a reporter were at When Swinburne met his elbow. Christina Rossetti, for instance, he aaid: "She is so beautiful I want to sit down and ery.".
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of his activities. Other animals have shown themselves capable on and the men, "after abortive accasion of realising mechanical efforts to look like Greek Gods, ideas. I have myself seen," wrote Charles Darwin in "The Descent of Mun," "a young orang put a stick in a crevice, slip his hand to the other end, and use it in the proper manner as a lever." And the orang which escaped from the Zoo for a time some years ago ac tually constructed a file of twisted wire and
cut through a cage-bar with it! Apes as well as man have on their retinas an' area of exact vision (the macula lutea) which is of the utmost importance in esti- Whistler had a formula for engag-Bamshul and Wuobow mating shape and judging distance.ing cooks. “I always ask at once," But even the man-like apes have be said, "Do you drink 1.7 and it ̧ nover invented a tool for turning she says "No, I bow politely and this gift to account.
Old and New Triumphs,
The whole bistory of man as tool
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maker is luminously presented in the author's Surrey garden with its this volume, which is a miracle of wonderful view behaved almost like conciseness and comprehensiveness a caricature of himself. combined. None of the facts which touch the imagination has been omitted. For example, the methods by which our unknown ancestors built the gigantic temple of Stone: bengo, the huge stones, for which must have been brought from Pem-
My dear Boy," exclaimed Henry James grasping my oru. "How-er-bow-
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