Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 594
act width. It is beyond the range of possibility/ suggested the printer. Mechanismnever can be applied to art. The great Ben jam in Franklin would have dis-covered the way to make such a thing possible, if it were possible — which isimpossible. And the scientific electric discovery made by Benjamin… … THE ART PRESERVATIVE 559 Dr. William Church, of Connecticut, produced a machine looking to ma-chine type-composition in 1820. It did not come into use, although he spentlarge sums of money on it, and devoted a vast amount of energy toward hav-ing it taken up both in this country and in England. At…
Progress · Inventions
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