Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... engine , made by 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 ...
... engine , made by 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 ...
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Samuel Smiles. Steam Navigation . 3 looked - that the steam - engine requires a firm basis on which to work ... engines by Maudslay , made the voyage from Falmouth to Calcutta in one hundred and thir- teen days ; and in 1828 the Curaçoa ...
Samuel Smiles. Steam Navigation . 3 looked - that the steam - engine requires a firm basis on which to work ... engines by Maudslay , made the voyage from Falmouth to Calcutta in one hundred and thir- teen days ; and in 1828 the Curaçoa ...
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... 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 1814 there was ...
... 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 1814 there was ...
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... engine in impelling ships by the paddle or the screw . So long as timber was used for the construction of ships , the number of vessels built annually , especially in so small an island as Britain , must necessarily have continued very ...
... engine in impelling ships by the paddle or the screw . So long as timber was used for the construction of ships , the number of vessels built annually , especially in so small an island as Britain , must necessarily have continued very ...
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... engine , which he fitted in a boat - une petite machine d'un vaisseau à roues — and despatched it to England for the purpose of being * An account of these is given by Bennet Woodcroft in his " Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam ...
... engine , which he fitted in a boat - une petite machine d'un vaisseau à roues — and despatched it to England for the purpose of being * An account of these is given by Bennet Woodcroft in his " Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam ...
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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...