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Excerpt from Annual of Scientific Discovery, or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1868: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Botany, Mineralogy, Meteorology, Geography, Antiquities, Etc
TO meet this acknowledged want of instruction in applied sci ence, we find educational establishments springing up all over the country, either as Polytechnic Institutions, Schools of Technology, or Scientific Schools attached to the older Universities. It is very important for the material prosperity of America that the energy and originality of her people should be directed properly, and that a good preparatory education should be furnished to those destined to take part in industrial pursuits. The necessity of the knowledge of this kind of instruction was apparent in the prod nets of all nations, as amid much that was novel and good was much of crude invention which had no right to be there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
