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Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:703934559
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:703938905
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063555281
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798507726264
The one-horse shay is a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. The body is chairlike in shape and has one seat for passengers positioned above the axle which is hung by leather braces from wooden springs connected to the shafts. The one-horse shay is an American adaptation, originating in Union, Maine, of the French chaise. The one-horse shay is colloquially known in the US as a 'one-hoss shay'. A smaller and more lightly constructed version of the one-horse shay is called a chair or 'whiskey' because it can "whisk" around other carriages and pass them quickly.American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. memorialized the shay in his satirical poem. "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay". In the poem, a fictional deacon crafts the titular wonderful one-hoss shay in such a logical way that it could not break down. The shay is constructed from the very best of materials so that each part is as strong as every other part. In Holmes' humorous, yet "logical", twist, the shay endures for a hundred years (amazingly to the precise moment of the 100th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake shock) then it "went to pieces all at once, and nothing first, -- just as bubbles do when they burst". It was built in such a "logical way" that it ran for exactly one hundred years to the day. In economics, the term "one-hoss shay" is used, following the scenario in Holmes' poem, to describe a model of depreciation, in which a durable product delivers the same services throughout its lifetime before failing with zero scrap value. A chair is a common example of such a product.
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:23059436
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 333748090X
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:703938745
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3293441
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013077958
Author : Emma Elizabeth Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337800750
Author : E. E. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958531569
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Homeopathy
ISBN : UVA:X002477572
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1061915920
Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:406632