Washington's Monument by John Steele Gordon

Author:John Steele Gordon [Gordon, John Steele]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781620406526
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

It is much to be regretted that sufficient precautions were not taken to ensure this engine working satisfactorily. The idea of inaugurating the steam engine on so solemn an occasion was most happy. … It would have been well to associate the monuments of antique art with the finest productions of the inventive mind of modern times. It would have been well to show 200,000 people one of these engines, … seizing the obelisk of Sesostris,10 and raising it little by little with perfect regularity of motion, without the aid of a living being, … These machines are destined to relieve man of all work that needs only brute force, and even much, such is their perfection, of some work that may seem to demand guidance from an intelligent being. The steam-engine … is nature enslaved; and it is the only slave, the only serf of the future.

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