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Sciences of Voyaging, such as Marine Insurance, Lighthouses and their accessories, Lifeboat service, etc.

2c. The operation of transportation through air has been briefly adverted to above. Of course there is much more science than could be indicated in such a paper.

iv. Mechanical Engineering has three general problems, as follows:

1. The analysis of the need and the invention of the general plan for meeting the need. This, as the part of the subject demanding the greatest originality, may be called Invention. For example, if an ordinary man were confronted with the problem of making a vehicle to be drawn by two horses through a field of grain and which should reap the grain, collect it into sheaves and bind the sheaves up with [??] of straw, he would simply be dumbfounded, not having any definite idea of what motions were required, nor knowing how to set to work to evolve such an idea. Yet this is an easy

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