Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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Samuel Smiles. СПАР . CONTENTS . PAGE I. PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings of English Ship - build- ing 1 II . FRANCIS PETTIT SMITH : Practical Introducer of the Screw Propeller 49 III . JOHN HARRISON : Inventor of the Marine Chronom- eter . 72 ...
Samuel Smiles. СПАР . CONTENTS . PAGE I. PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings of English Ship - build- ing 1 II . FRANCIS PETTIT SMITH : Practical Introducer of the Screw Propeller 49 III . JOHN HARRISON : Inventor of the Marine Chronom- eter . 72 ...
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... ENGLISH SHIP - BUILDING . " A speck in the Northern Ocean , with a rocky coast , an ungenial climate , and a soil scarcely fruitful , this was the material patrimony which descended to the English race - an inheritance that would have ...
... ENGLISH SHIP - BUILDING . " A speck in the Northern Ocean , with a rocky coast , an ungenial climate , and a soil scarcely fruitful , this was the material patrimony which descended to the English race - an inheritance that would have ...
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... country was 537,000 tons ; in 1872 it was 1,537,000 tons ; and in 1882 it had reached 3,835,000 tons . ” — Mr . Chamberlain's Speech , House of Commons , 19th May , 1884 . Beginnings of English Commerce . 5 year but left it 4 Phineas Pett .
... country was 537,000 tons ; in 1872 it was 1,537,000 tons ; and in 1882 it had reached 3,835,000 tons . ” — Mr . Chamberlain's Speech , House of Commons , 19th May , 1884 . Beginnings of English Commerce . 5 year but left it 4 Phineas Pett .
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... English fishermen . English commerce also had very slender beginnings . At the commencement of the fifteenth century England was of very little account in the affairs of Europe . Indeed , the history of modern England is nearly coin ...
... English fishermen . English commerce also had very slender beginnings . At the commencement of the fifteenth century England was of very little account in the affairs of Europe . Indeed , the history of modern England is nearly coin ...
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... English navy , and his name occurs in every ordnance account of the series , generally for sums of the largest amounts . Henry VIII . was the first to establish royal dock- yards - first at Woolwich , then at Portsmouth , and , thirdly ...
... English navy , and his name occurs in every ordnance account of the series , generally for sums of the largest amounts . Henry VIII . was the first to establish royal dock- yards - first at Woolwich , then at Portsmouth , and , thirdly ...
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