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...is book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise,... ...ir enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Br... ... had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that sh... ...e had already made up her mind to accept this strange, arranged marriage. To be the wife of Gavin French, whom she had loved secretly from the tende... ...gor to direct the passengers to the waiting horse drawn carriages, which transported them to the railway station and here Helen caught her first sig... ...ly expanding rail track. The station master told them with pride, ‘This is the first section of railway to be constructed between Bombay and Calcut... ...the territories they administer. Give us time and you will see - already we have begun to build a railway system that will link all of India and the... ... of heavy artillery being hauled by palace elephants and despite heavy fire from the fort, native engineers began constructing battery positions to ... ...hese forays were designed not only to impede the investment, but to lower the moral of the rebel engineers, as their throats were slit by Gurkha kuk...

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...eded for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books...

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...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The d... ...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time an... ...y must have been the first system to gain accuracy and lower costs with a mechanical device that replaced direct handwork. Interchangeable parts an... ...Mergenthaler, nevertheless, deserves a place alongside the likes of other mechanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski t...

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...volutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "glo... ...ts of man; every citizen may therefore speak, write and print freely." (French National Assembly, 1789) I. What is a Book? UNESCO's arbitrary a... ...09 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eigh... ...publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustr... ...ritorial jurisdiction over the hitherto ostensibly extraterritorial Net. A French court has prohibited Yahoo! from making certain content on its Web ... ...rohibited Yahoo! from making certain content on its Web sites available to French citizens. An American court advised Yahoo! to ignore this decision.... ... or the latter day equivalent of previous networks (telegraph, telephony, railways) • A new continent These metaphors prove to be very useful (e... ...ed themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be expressed as... ...all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church's road and...

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...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doo... ...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time and ... ...y must have been the first system to gain accuracy and lower costs with a mechanical device that replaced direct handwork. Interchangeable parts an... ...Mergenthaler, nevertheless, deserves a place alongside the likes of other mechanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas... ...cientific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski tra...

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...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...r. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admit... ...xpect to find that we can reduce all the activities of the brain to computational, mechanically solvable, recursive functions. The brain can be reg... ...ced in the thought experiment by a Turing machine. His functions are recursive and mechanical. But there is a much more serious objection. Whomever... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...tal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of... ...r. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admit... ...xpect to find that we can reduce all the activities of the brain to computational, mechanically solvable, recursive functions. The brain can be reg... ...ced in the thought experiment by a Turing machine. His functions are recursive and mechanical. But there is a much more serious objection. Whomever... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...ation is preserved. A collapsing bedpost (as in Maury's famous dream) will become a French guillotine, for instance. The message conserved: there i... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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...support - other, no less weighty, scholarship by the likes of Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, James Poterba, Allan Kleidon, and William Schwert negate... ... American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and the French COFACE - shift political risk from buyers, project compan... ...t derivative). But as banks and insurance companies merged into what is termed, in French, "bancassurance", or, in German, "Allfinanz" - so did the... ...omputing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of content, financial engineers, scientists, and inventors to a heightened complexity ... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of th... ...forgettable lessons about markets and the way they work, namely that "objective", "mechanical" capitalism is a mirage. Perhaps the most important m... ...ors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be ex... ...a set of all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church'... ...nly the latest in a string of networks which spanned the globe (the telegraph, the railway, the radio, television). So, I went and had a look at ...

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... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ...ufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on ... ...ls and services while paying more in taxes than they take out, like Indian engineers and doctors, or British or Chinese businessmen. The negative imm... ... are no longer needed because machines do the work. The needs now are for engineers, computer specialists, and venture capitalists.‖ —―A... ...workers, food costs would rise. The best solution might be to develop more mechanical pickers, more robots and other labor saving devices. But figuri... ...d require special justifications. Keeping a person biologically alive, by mechanically circulating her red blood cells does not allow that person to ... ...ink that death is not an acceptable penalty for an orgasm, so they opt for mechanical contraception like condoms, if they is available. We all know t...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...To one more tradition I may allude, that we are some- how descended from a French barber-surgeon who came to St. Andrews in the service of one of the ... ... is satisfied that these speculations as to a possible Norse, Highland, or French origin are vain. All we know about the engineer family is that it wa... ... Braxfield, let fall from the bench the obiter dictum – ‘I never liked the French all my days, but now I hate them.’ If Thomas Smith, the Edinburgh Sp... ...rst of all and last of all, an engineer. His chief claim to the style of a mechanical inventor is on account of the Jib or Bal- ance Crane of the Bell... ...iews. But the province of formu- las and constants is restricted. Even the mechanical engi- neer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stan... ... other apparatus of various descriptions connected with the fitting of the railways. The landing-master’s crew were occupied in assisting the millwrig... ...ed freely with the boring-irons, and assisted in all the operations of the railways, acting by turns as boatmen, sea- men, and artificers. We had no s... ...and irons, and for purposes connected with the preparations for fixing the railways on the rock. The weather towards the evening became thick and fogg...

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...ychological inepti- tude of the Germans, it is probably the clumsiest. The French Maison de la Presse is certainly the best organisation in exist- enc... ...e of the “treacherous” English who allied themselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas... ...e allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting... ...st on the line between V erona and Milan through the gross negligence of a railway porter. But I doubt if they would have thrown any very conclusive l... ...uipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, vast store dumps, hospitals; everywhere the villages sw... ...ke operations far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or railway in an Alpine valley is the most vulnerable of things; its curves an... ...eading,” in the sense of going ahead of the men and making them move about mechanically at the word of command, has ceased. On the British side our ma... ...chemist or a photographer into a little figure like a lead soldier, moving mechanically at the word of command, but we do want to make his chemistry o... ...factor in the sort of war we are now waging is production and right use of mechanical material; victory in this war depends now upon three things: the...

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...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ...ch into a particular question—espe- cially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the tru... ...ially if it is a question essentially mechanical—is shown by the work of a Frenchman all too neglected by the trumpet of fame—Clement Ader. M. Ader wa... ...uch matters of material development. But it is not with the development of mechanical inven- tions that the writer now proposes to treat. In this book... ...zard certain forecasts about the trend of events in the next decade or so. Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming hi... ...g of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think any longer of... ...s gifted Pole made his forecast of the future. Perhaps it is more, for the French translation of his book was certainly in exist- ence before the Boer... ...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ...rous undertaking for Germany. She may open mines she may never work, build railways that others will enjoy, sow harvests for alien reaping. The people...

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... the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it wa... ...utler. Mater’s “Société des Nations” (Didier) is an able presentation of a French point of view. Brailsford’s “A League of Nations” is already a class... ...sts hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ours. So do some of the diplomatic French- men. The German junkers are dodging and lying, they are fighting de... ...m to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator has; still it is a claim. And for the life of ... ...ough the possessions of several Powers) and in the regula- tion of the big railway lines and air routes that will speedily follow the conclusion of pe... ...e middle African Customs, the regulation of inter-State trade, inter-State railways and wa- terways, quarantine and health generally, and the establis... ...om it. Underlying both argu- ments is the fact that modern developments of mechanical science have brought the nations of Europe together into too clo... ...erica, which is not now prac- tising a pinching economy of steel and other mechanical material. The Germans are running short of first-class flying me... ... to make it a game of cricket. Most of these soldiers detest every sort of mechanical device; the tanks, for example, which, used with imagination, mi...

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...ow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for the time at least.... ...the protec- tion of the Company’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the European residents; that is, by Captain Mitch... ... European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of engineers building the road, aided by the Italian and Basque workmen who ra... ...e harm the mob managed to achieve was to set fire to one—only one—stack of railway-sleepers, which, being creosoted, burned well. The main attack on t... ...safe proceeding. Such was also the opinion of a stout, loud-voiced lady of French extraction, the daughter, she said, of an of- 54 Nostromo ficer of ... ...to weigh down the vivacity of her character, which was the sign of no mere mechanical sprightliness, but of an eager intelligence. It must not be supp... ...ntage was German and Scotch and English, with remote strains of Danish and French blood, giving him the temperament of a Puritan and an insatiable ima... ... who piqued him- self on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had lived in Europe for some years—in exile, he sai... ...o take leave. Don Jose roused himself for an appropriate phrase pronounced mechanically. The terrible strain of hope and fear was telling on him, and ...

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... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ...imited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of... ...an hour along roads that were continually more dusty and more crowded with mechanical traffic. But at last his sav- ings accumulated, and his chance c... ... them anticipated a tithe of what the Brennan mono-rail would do for their railway securities and the face of the world. In a few, years they realised... ...superseding the tram-lines, railways: and in- deed every form of track for mechanical locomotion. Where 12 The War in the Air land was cheap the rail... ... prizes. Some of these had been offered so long ago as 1906 for successful mechanical flight. By the time of Mr. Butteridge’s success a really very co... ...ing. The latter had an ivory plate bearing “statoscope” and other words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and D... ...t him thinking about lan- guages and trying to recall his seventh-standard French. “Je suis Anglais. C’est une meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ic...

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... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ...ease to observe, expected. I have said, I am hungry; perhaps I might say, with greater point and force, that I am to some extent exhausted, and that I... ...ry orchards, apple orchards, corn-fields, and hop-gardens; so went I, by Canterbury to Dover. There, the sea was tumbling in, with deep sounds, after ... ...e got by far the worst—all in the usual intolerable manner. But, when I was clear of the Custom House on the other side, and when I began to make the ... ...t only was there complete precision—complete accord to the eye and to the ear—but an alertness in the doing of the thing which deprived it, curiously,... ...er on the bare deck. Later in the day, when this self-same boat was filled with a choir who sang glees and catches for a long time, one of the singers... ...ovable edifice set up in an ancient amphitheatre (say , that at V erona), and almost filling it! Yet what would even these things be, without the trib...

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...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...scent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over their intersections, and signal st... ...that my mind ran persistently that evening upon revolutions after the best French pattern, and I sat on a Committee of Safety and tried backsliders. P... ...ll talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at the realiza- tion ... ...- ing, towered over her, becoming for an instant at least a sort of second French Revolution, and delivered myself with the intensest concentration of... ...t you!” But he hid Nettie nevertheless. By an enormous effort I resisted a mechanical impulse to shoot through his fat body. Anyhow, I knew I mustn’t ... ...icourt and Donen. The hills beyond Spincourt were dusted thick with hidden French riflemen; the thin lash of the French skir- mishers sprawled out ami... ...ling. I remember the corridor full of mellow evening light, and how I went mechanically some paces toward the dining-room. Then at the sight of the li... ...he Change had freed us from our baser passions in- deed, from habitual and mechanical concupiscence and mean issues and coarse imaginings, but from th...

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... I recollect aright.” “You came back by the trap that took me to Camelford railway station. It was close on the Jubilee, Victoria’s Jubilee, because I... ...am steadfastly. At the end of the table he perceived the glit- ter of some mechanical appliances. Howard led him along the end gallery until they were... ...he kaleidoscopic impressions of this first hour of awakened life; the vast mechanical spaces, the endless se- ries of chambers and passages, the great... ...tumult of the rotating wheels was pierced with a deafening sound. It was a mechanical shrilling of extraordinary inten- 59 H G Wells sity that seemed... ... and back, was as much as was comfortable for the farmer. But directly the railways came into play, and after them the light railways, and all the swi... ...ian English in Persia and Kurdistan and the “Pidgin” English in Pekin, and French still clear and brilliant, the language of lucidity, which shared th... ...terprise, it gathered greedily. And it drilled and marshalled its men, its railway police, its roadway po- lice, its house guards, and drain and cable... ... simplicity of robing and subtlety of fold, after the fashion of the First French Empire, and flashed conquering arms and shoulders as Graham passed. ... ...ice here. “And every consideration has been shown. It is their own negroes—French speaking negroes. Senegal regiments, and Niger and Timbuctoo.” “Regi...

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...ses livingly to my imagination. A turn of the market may be a calamity as disastrous as the French retreat from Moscow; but it hardly lends itself to ... ...pected, the quadrille was soon whistled down, and the dancers departed under a cloud. Eight Frenchmen, even eight Englishmen from another rank of soci... ...an in the army.’ Among nations, En- gland was the first; then came France. He respected the French navy and liked the French people; and if he were fo... ...ll that he possessed in that same accursed, down-falling England, whence skilled mechanics, engineers, millwrights, and carpenters were fleeing as fro... ...so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men... ...e has not surrendered his will and con- tracted for the next hundred miles, like a man on a railway. He may change his mind at every finger-post, and,... ...to sing the same air myself in a more diffident manner. T ring was reached, and then T ring railway-station; for the two are not very near, the good p... ...nce, which was disqui- eting in itself, and increased the resemblance of the whole party to mechanical waxworks. Certainly, he affirms, a wax figure m... ...se purely personal favours, this consideration of men’s fancies, rather than the hands of a mechanical clock, as marking the advance of the abstractio...

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...ish is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French and Scholar’s Latin, welded into one speech more ample and more powe... ...el in many ways. It is un- likely there will be any smoke-disgorging steam railway trains in Utopia, they are already doomed on earth, already threat-... ... pierce the mountain masses and tunnel under the seas. These may be double railways or monorails or what not—we are no engi- neers to judge between su... ...ons and thinning as the population thins. And running beside these lighter railways, and spreading beyond their range, will be the smooth minor high r... ...he burthen of the minor traffic, if not the whole of it, will certainly be mechanical. This is what we shall see even while the road is still remote, ... ...emption. A horse, perhaps, in certain districts, or a bicycle, or any such mechanical conveyance personally used, the Utopians might find it well to r... ...S S S Section 6 ection 6 ection 6 ection 6 ection 6 From the conception of mechanical force as coming in from Nature to the service of man, a concepti... ...xample. It is only a reasonable tribute to the distinctive lucidity of the French mind to suppose the central index housed in a vast series of buildin... ...of his hands. On earth, where there is nationality, this would have been a Frenchman—the inferior sort of Frenchman—the sort whose only happiness is i...

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...to say about it; there was also in every state of the atmosphere our friend Mrs. Meldrum, a subject of remark not less inveterate. The widow of an off... ...capped my anecdote with others much more striking, the disclo- sure of effects produced in the most extraordinary quar- ters: on people who had follow... ... at any rate would have come and gone since our separation in July. She had spent four months abroad, where, on Swiss and Italian lakes, in German cit... ...our young lady’s part of that sort of meditation. The one moral she saw in anything was that of her incomparable aspect, which Mr. Dawling, smitten ev... ...tive. She at any rate simply looked away; and at this moment one of the shop-girls, who had ap- parently gone off in search of it, bustled up to her w... ...ert. Mrs. Meldrum was on the spot all gaiety. “I’ve come to return your sweet visit. Ah,” she laughed, “I mean to keep up the acquaintance!” “Do—do,” ...