Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... iron boats for the United States , with steam machinery and a propeller on the same plan . One of these vessels - the Robert F. Stockton - seventy feet in length , was constructed by Laird & Co. , of Birkenhead , in 1838 , and left ...
... iron boats for the United States , with steam machinery and a propeller on the same plan . One of these vessels - the Robert F. Stockton - seventy feet in length , was constructed by Laird & Co. , of Birkenhead , in 1838 , and left ...
Página 65
... iron - clad cupola vessel , and was similarly rewarded ! He afterwards invented the torpedo - ship , the Destroyer , the use of which has , fortunately , not yet been required in sea - warfare . Er- icsson still lives , constantly ...
... iron - clad cupola vessel , and was similarly rewarded ! He afterwards invented the torpedo - ship , the Destroyer , the use of which has , fortunately , not yet been required in sea - warfare . Er- icsson still lives , constantly ...
Página 68
... iron steamer at Bristol , the Great Britain , for passenger traffic between England and America . He had in- tended to construct her as a paddle - steamer , but , hear- ing of the success of the Archimedes , he inspected the vessel ...
... iron steamer at Bristol , the Great Britain , for passenger traffic between England and America . He had in- tended to construct her as a paddle - steamer , but , hear- ing of the success of the Archimedes , he inspected the vessel ...
Página 69
... iron as the material for ship - building has immensely ad- vanced the interests of steam navigation , as it enables the builders to construct vessels of great size with the finest lines , so as to attain the highest rates of speed . One ...
... iron as the material for ship - building has immensely ad- vanced the interests of steam navigation , as it enables the builders to construct vessels of great size with the finest lines , so as to attain the highest rates of speed . One ...
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Samuel Smiles. Use of Practical Astronomy . 73 send down his grappling - irons into the sea , and pick up an electrical cable for examination and repair . This is the result of a knowledge of practical as- tronomy . " Place an astronomer ...
Samuel Smiles. Use of Practical Astronomy . 73 send down his grappling - irons into the sea , and pick up an electrical cable for examination and repair . This is the result of a knowledge of practical as- tronomy . " Place an astronomer ...
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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...