Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... Watt ; " but these are now placed in a continuous narrative , and sup- plemented by other information , more particularly the correspondence between Watt and Murdock , communicated to me by the present representative of the family , Mr ...
... Watt ; " but these are now placed in a continuous narrative , and sup- plemented by other information , more particularly the correspondence between Watt and Murdock , communicated to me by the present representative of the family , Mr ...
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... Watt , only about a hundred years ago . The most recent applica- tion of this form of energy has been in the propulsion of ships , which has already produced so great an effect upon commerce , navigation , and the spread of popula- tion ...
... Watt , only about a hundred years ago . The most recent applica- tion of this form of energy has been in the propulsion of ships , which has already produced so great an effect upon commerce , navigation , and the spread of popula- tion ...
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... Watt's steam - engine was the beginning of our manufacturing supremacy ; and since its adoption in- ventions and discoveries in art and science , within the last hundred years , have succeeded each other with extraordinary rapidity . In ...
... Watt's steam - engine was the beginning of our manufacturing supremacy ; and since its adoption in- ventions and discoveries in art and science , within the last hundred years , have succeeded each other with extraordinary rapidity . In ...
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... Watt , in 1769 , of his double - acting en- gine the first step by which steam was rendered capable of being successfully used to impel a vessel . But Watt was indifferent to taking up the subject of steam navigation , as well as of ...
... Watt , in 1769 , of his double - acting en- gine the first step by which steam was rendered capable of being successfully used to impel a vessel . But Watt was indifferent to taking up the subject of steam navigation , as well as of ...
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Samuel Smiles. London , and in 1805 he obtained from Boulton & Watt , of Birmingham , the steam - engine required for propelling his paddle steamboat on the Hudson . The Clermont was first started in August , 1807 , and at- tained a ...
Samuel Smiles. London , and in 1805 he obtained from Boulton & Watt , of Birmingham , the steam - engine required for propelling his paddle steamboat on the Hudson . The Clermont was first started in August , 1807 , and at- tained a ...
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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...
Página 98 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...