Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . СПАР . CONTENTS . PAGE I. PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings iv Preface .
... had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . СПАР . CONTENTS . PAGE I. PHINEAS PETT : Beginnings iv Preface .
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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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... the reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . CONTENTS . CIIAP PAGE 1 . I. PHINEAS PETT : iv Preface .
... the reading as I had in the writ ing . " In fact , the last three chapters were in some measure the cause of the book being published in its present form . LONDON , November , 1884 . CONTENTS . CIIAP PAGE 1 . I. PHINEAS PETT : iv Preface .
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... PETT . BEGINNINGS OF 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 ...
... PETT . BEGINNINGS OF 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 ...
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... ascertained . When it was first proposed , Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society , said : " It is a pretty plan , but there is just one point over- Steam Navigation . 3 looked - that the steam - 2 Phineas Pett .
... ascertained . When it was first proposed , Sir Joseph Banks , President of the Royal Society , said : " It is a pretty plan , but there is just one point over- Steam Navigation . 3 looked - that the steam - 2 Phineas Pett .
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Página 205 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
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