The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volumen 2Nattali and Bond, 1860 |
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... Steam - Engine .-- James Watt Sir Richard Arkwright.The Cotton Manufacture CHAPTER XIV . CHAPTER XV . 295 • • 325 Invention of the Power Loom.-Dr. Cartwright . - W . Ed- wards . - R . Walker CHAPTER XVI . Pursuit of Knowledge by ...
... Steam - Engine .-- James Watt Sir Richard Arkwright.The Cotton Manufacture CHAPTER XIV . CHAPTER XV . 295 • • 325 Invention of the Power Loom.-Dr. Cartwright . - W . Ed- wards . - R . Walker CHAPTER XVI . Pursuit of Knowledge by ...
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... steam engine ; his contemporary Viscount Brouncker , the first President of the Royal Society , and noted as the perfecter of the theory of fractional arithme- tic ; the Earl of Macclesfield , to whom we are prin- cipally indebted for ...
... steam engine ; his contemporary Viscount Brouncker , the first President of the Royal Society , and noted as the perfecter of the theory of fractional arithme- tic ; the Earl of Macclesfield , to whom we are prin- cipally indebted for ...
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... village in 1788. He had been for some time a corresponding member both of the Royal Society of London and of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg . CHAPTER . XIII . Discovery and Improvement of the Steam 294 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... village in 1788. He had been for some time a corresponding member both of the Royal Society of London and of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg . CHAPTER . XIII . Discovery and Improvement of the Steam 294 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... steam as a mechanical agent . To one individual , the illustrious JAMES WATT , the merit and honour of having first rendered it exten- sively available for that purpose are pre - eminently due . The force of steam , now so important an ...
... steam as a mechanical agent . To one individual , the illustrious JAMES WATT , the merit and honour of having first rendered it exten- sively available for that purpose are pre - eminently due . The force of steam , now so important an ...
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... steam with much effect , therefore , is to make it act in a close vessel . The first known writer who alludes to the prodigious energy which it exerts when thus con- fined , is the French engineer Solomon de Caus , who flourished in the ...
... steam with much effect , therefore , is to make it act in a close vessel . The first known writer who alludes to the prodigious energy which it exerts when thus con- fined , is the French engineer Solomon de Caus , who flourished in the ...
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