Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 152
n a truth of execution unknownbefore to-day. For writing on papyrus a brush had to be used;on vellum or paper, a pen or pencil may also be employed, tracinglines no wider than a hair. Our grandmothers were fond of sew-ing on a perforated card a motto or a flower in silk thread; sucha sampler always… … When in weaving silk or linen there may be two hundred threadsto the running inch instead of ten, the designer can introducecurves almost as flowing as if hewere a painter. So too in archi-tecture : the log hut was perforcestraight in its every line; stone andbrick made possible the arch; ironand…
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