18 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2020
  2. Jan 2019
    1. “ Look, papa! I believe that the trees we took for wild figsare caoutchouc-trees, for this I am sure is india-rubber. I stretchedit out, and when I let go it slipped back suddenly to its formersize.”

      Rubber

  3. Dec 2018
    1. In addition to its unique unloading system, the giganticBethlehem ship also has a propulsion system unlike that foundon any other vessel on the lakes. The Cort has two engine rooms,separated hy the massive rotary elevator. Each engine roomhouses two 3,500-horsepower diesel engines, one mounted oneach side of a propeller shaft. Each shaft drives a controllablepitch propeller eighteen feet in diameter. The Cort s twin screwscan push the ship along at an average speed of about 16.5 milesan hour.

      What an engine!

  4. Nov 2018
  5. Sep 2018
    1. The little duck, that had been given whiskey,was now on his legs, unsteady legs. With a proudair, he was holding his head high.“Seems as if the whiskey had gone to his head,”said Old Timothy, smiling and winking at me.“Feel pretty happy, Ducky^ Felt like that myself once—felt as if I owned the earth—felt—”

      An all-time favorite quote from the Wayne State University digital collections

  6. Aug 2018
  7. Apr 2016
    1. I don’t think of the national digital platform as anything monolithic. ... I think it’s about getting individual projects to think about not just themselves but how they fit into a wider sort of infrastructure, a wider environment, and how their materials can be best shared and preserved in sort of a national and international scale

      Nice to see comments like this. Hoping Linked [Open] Data will help with this.

  8. Sep 2015