Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... ideas in the build and lines of his new ship ; and the course which he adopted had its effect upon all future marine struct- ures . The ship was more handy , more wieldy , and more convenient . She was unquestionably the first effort of ...
... ideas in the build and lines of his new ship ; and the course which he adopted had its effect upon all future marine struct- ures . The ship was more handy , more wieldy , and more convenient . She was unquestionably the first effort of ...
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... idea , however , had been born , and was not allowed to die . When Mr. Miller , of Dalswinton , had revived the notion of propelling vessels by means of paddle - wheels , worked , as Savery had before worked them , by means of a capstan ...
... idea , however , had been born , and was not allowed to die . When Mr. Miller , of Dalswinton , had revived the notion of propelling vessels by means of paddle - wheels , worked , as Savery had before worked them , by means of a capstan ...
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... idea is born in one generation , followed out in the next , and perhaps perfected in the third . In an age of progress one invention merely paves the way for another . What was the wonder of yesterday becomes the common and unnoticed ...
... idea is born in one generation , followed out in the next , and perhaps perfected in the third . In an age of progress one invention merely paves the way for another . What was the wonder of yesterday becomes the common and unnoticed ...
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... idea slept . It was revived again in 1785 , by Joseph Bramah , a wonderful projector and inventor . He took out a patent , which included a rotatory steam - engine , and a mode of propelling vessels by means either of a pad- dle - wheel ...
... idea slept . It was revived again in 1785 , by Joseph Bramah , a wonderful projector and inventor . He took out a patent , which included a rotatory steam - engine , and a mode of propelling vessels by means either of a pad- dle - wheel ...
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... idea of a machine who is entitled to the merit of its introduction , or the man who repeats the idea , and re - repeats it , but the man who is so deeply im- pressed with the importance of the discovery that he insists upon its adoption ...
... idea of a machine who is entitled to the merit of its introduction , or the man who repeats the idea , and re - repeats it , but the man who is so deeply im- pressed with the importance of the discovery that he insists upon its adoption ...
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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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