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The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines… The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.

Charles Babbage

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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Light Necessary Order Time Work
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interested in the subject.
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Attachment Discussion Hope Important Interest Subject
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
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Frequent Object Organ See Vision
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
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Basket Empty Name Yourself
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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Economy Human Machine Time
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
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Age Education Fact Greatness Invention Production University
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
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Authority Decline Expression Myself Opinion Science
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
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Employment Frame Frequency Human Production Togetherness
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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Calculation Execution God Myself
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
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Economy Instrument Science
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
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Academics Ambition Knowledge Limitation Person Purpose
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
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Knowledge Possession Public Quantity University
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
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Blessing Invention Person Power Principle
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.
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Destroy Difficult Estimate Intellectual Loss Misery Person Time Work
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
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Absence Errors Fact Reason Result Rise True
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Chemistry Choice History Knowledge Medicine Natural Professional Science

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