. The conquest of nature. 0 010 856 571 8 ■!:M!:;i!!^;iii!:!i!^:-;)i!i:!|i; ^t (M 5/-r:.^r;i-^r:* ;■-;! K> .<■< <<H. Th Conquest (j/Nature BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, , ASSISTED BY EDWARD H. WILLIAMS, NEW YORK AND LONDON THE GOODHUE COMPANY Publishers - MDCCCCXI -^^ 6 ^A^^ /^ i^^ Copyright, 1910, by The Goodhue , 1911, by The Goodhue Co. A H rights reserved , f CONTENTS CHAPTER I MAN AND NATURE The Conquest of Nature, p. 4—Mans use of Natures gifts, p. 6—Man the tool-making animal, p. 7—Science and Civilization, p. 8—Clothing and artif
. The conquest of nature. 0 010 856 571 8 ■!:M!:;i!!^;iii!:!i!^:-;)i!i:!|i; ^t (M 5/-r:.^r;i-^r:* ;■-;! K> .<■< <<H. Th Conquest (j/Nature BY HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, , ASSISTED BY EDWARD H. WILLIAMS, NEW YORK AND LONDON THE GOODHUE COMPANY Publishers - MDCCCCXI -^^ 6 ^A^^ /^ i^^ Copyright, 1910, by The Goodhue , 1911, by The Goodhue Co. A H rights reserved , f CONTENTS CHAPTER I MAN AND NATURE The Conquest of Nature, p. 4—Mans use of Natures gifts, p. 6—Man the tool-making animal, p. 7—Science and Civilization, p. 8—Clothing and artificially heated dwellings of primitive man, —Early domestication of animals, p. 11—Early developmentto the time of gunpowder, p. 12—The coming of steam and elec-tricity, p. 15—Mechanical aids to the agriculturist, p. 19—Thedevelopment of scientific agriculture, p. 20—Difficulties of the earlymanufacturer, p. 21—The development of modem manufactur-ing, p. 24—The relation of work to human development, p. 25—The decline of drudgery and the new era of labor-saving devices,p. 27. CHAPTER n HOW WORK IS DONE Pri
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