Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 296
iew, laid down with a pencil and ruler. If the engineer has many a golden hint spread before him inthe hills and dales, the streams and oceans of the world, not lessfruitful is the study of what takes place justbeneath the surface of the earth where the Engineering roots of grain and shrub, reed… … Deciduous cypress, Taxodium distichum. lengthen and thicken where food chiefly abounds. In an aridplain of Arizona a vine, in ground parched and dry, goes down-ward so far, and spreads its fibrils so much abroad, as soon to 248 NATURE AS TEACHER
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