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Excerpt from Les Machines
Les autres sont les machines proprement dites, qui moyennant l'intervention d'un moteur 'tranger, suppriment ou r'duisent le travail humain, en don nant. Le mouvement une s'rie d'outils ou de ma chines plus simples. Les roues hydrauliques et les machines vapeur, dont l'usage est aujourd'hui si fr'quent, appartiennent cette seconde classe. 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.
