Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... complete . He also proceeded with the study of mathematics . The be- ginning of the year 1600 found Pett once more out of employment , and during his enforced idleness , which continued for six months , he seriously contemplated ...
... complete . He also proceeded with the study of mathematics . The be- ginning of the year 1600 found Pett once more out of employment , and during his enforced idleness , which continued for six months , he seriously contemplated ...
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... complete model . In the autumn of 1836 a small steam - vessel of ten tons ' burden and six - horse power was built , further to test the advantages of the invention . This boat was fitted with a wooden screw of two whole turns . On the ...
... complete model . In the autumn of 1836 a small steam - vessel of ten tons ' burden and six - horse power was built , further to test the advantages of the invention . This boat was fitted with a wooden screw of two whole turns . On the ...
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... complete triumph . As Mr. Stephenson observed at the engineers ' meeting : " Mr. Smith has worked from a platform which might have been raised by others , as Watt had done , and as other great men had done ; but he had made a stride in ...
... complete triumph . As Mr. Stephenson observed at the engineers ' meeting : " Mr. Smith has worked from a platform which might have been raised by others , as Watt had done , and as other great men had done ; but he had made a stride in ...
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... complete narrative of Harrison's career was ever written . Only a short notice of him appears in the " Biographia Britannica , " published in 1766 , during his lifetime - the facts of which were obtained from himself . A few notices of ...
... complete narrative of Harrison's career was ever written . Only a short notice of him appears in the " Biographia Britannica , " published in 1766 , during his lifetime - the facts of which were obtained from himself . A few notices of ...
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... complete his task , and many years elapsed be- fore he again appeared in London to present his first chronometer ... completing his chronometer that Harrison had , in 1728 , made his first visit to Lon- don to exhibit his drawings . The ...
... complete his task , and many years elapsed be- fore he again appeared in London to present his first chronometer ... completing his chronometer that Harrison had , in 1728 , made his first visit to Lon- don to exhibit his drawings . The ...
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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...