Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... mechanical and scientific achievements , it is the youngest of all coun- tries . Watt's steam - engine was the beginning of our manufacturing supremacy ; and since its adoption in- ventions and discoveries in art and science , within ...
... mechanical and scientific achievements , it is the youngest of all coun- tries . Watt's steam - engine was the beginning of our manufacturing supremacy ; and since its adoption in- ventions and discoveries in art and science , within ...
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... mechanical inventors . A perfected invention does not burst forth from the brain like a poetic thought or a fine resolve . It has to be initiated , labored over , and pursued in the face of disappointments , difficulties , and ...
... mechanical inventors . A perfected invention does not burst forth from the brain like a poetic thought or a fine resolve . It has to be initiated , labored over , and pursued in the face of disappointments , difficulties , and ...
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... mechanical career began . When only twelve years old he was appointed a cadet in the Swedish corps of mechanical engineers , and in the following year he was put in charge of a section of the Gotha Ship Canal , then under construction ...
... mechanical career began . When only twelve years old he was appointed a cadet in the Swedish corps of mechanical engineers , and in the following year he was put in charge of a section of the Gotha Ship Canal , then under construction ...
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... mechanical and chemical inventions . " - SIR HUMPHRY Davy . At the middle of last century , Scotland was a very poor country . It consisted mostly of mountain and moorland ; and the little arable land it contained was badly cultivated ...
... mechanical and chemical inventions . " - SIR HUMPHRY Davy . At the middle of last century , Scotland was a very poor country . It consisted mostly of mountain and moorland ; and the little arable land it contained was badly cultivated ...
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... mechanical power , which was the wonder of the district . On this mechanical horse he rode to the village of Cumnock , about two miles distant . His father's name is , however , associated with his own in the production of this machine ...
... mechanical power , which was the wonder of the district . On this mechanical horse he rode to the village of Cumnock , about two miles distant . His father's name is , however , associated with his own in the production of this machine ...
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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...