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.
CHARLES BABBAGEI 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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Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.
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The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
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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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As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.
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I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
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The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.
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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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The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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