Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... 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 over the world . Equally important has been the influence of the ...
... 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 over the world . Equally important has been the influence of the ...
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... tion , in 1838 , " proving " that steamers could never cross the Atlantic , because they could not carry suffi- cient coal to raise steam enough during the voyage . But this theory was also tested by experience in the same year , when ...
... tion , in 1838 , " proving " that steamers could never cross the Atlantic , because they could not carry suffi- cient coal to raise steam enough during the voyage . But this theory was also tested by experience in the same year , when ...
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... tion . * * See , for instance , the " Index to the Journals of Records of the Corporation of the City of London " ( No. 2 , p . 346 , 1590–1694 ) , under the head of " Sir Walter Raleigh . " There is a document dated the 15th November ...
... tion . * * See , for instance , the " Index to the Journals of Records of the Corporation of the City of London " ( No. 2 , p . 346 , 1590–1694 ) , under the head of " Sir Walter Raleigh . " There is a document dated the 15th November ...
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... tion , Pett took a lease of the Manor House , and settled there with his sisters . He was now in the direct way to preferment . Early in the following year ( March , 1601 ) he succeeded to the place of assistant to the principal master ...
... tion , Pett took a lease of the Manor House , and settled there with his sisters . He was now in the direct way to preferment . Early in the following year ( March , 1601 ) he succeeded to the place of assistant to the principal master ...
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... tion of timber for the government , his hands seem to have been kept very full during the whole of 1605 . In July , 1606 , Pett received private instructions from the lord high admiral to have all the king's ships " put into comely ...
... tion of timber for the government , his hands seem to have been kept very full during the whole of 1605 . In July , 1606 , Pett received private instructions from the lord high admiral to have all the king's ships " put into comely ...
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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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