Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 153
d only graduallylearned to economize metal,so much stronger than stone,and so much harder to get,by narrowing and flattening their new weapons and tools. Modern manufacture in its designs gives us a kindred per-sistence of old forms in newthings. For electric illumi-nation we have bulbs whichrecall… … Vase from tumulus. St. George, Utah Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos. W. H. Holmes. Wooden tray. Clay derivative. Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art. W. H. Holmes.
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