Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics ...Derby & Jackson, 1858 - 482 páginas |
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... Machine 455 • Watt's Statue - turning Machinery . 457 Babbage's Calculating Machine 457 Automaton Chess Player 460 Chinese Bamboo Irrigation Wheel 469 Discovery of Gunpowder , and Inventions arising there- from 470 A few Remarks on the ...
... Machine 455 • Watt's Statue - turning Machinery . 457 Babbage's Calculating Machine 457 Automaton Chess Player 460 Chinese Bamboo Irrigation Wheel 469 Discovery of Gunpowder , and Inventions arising there- from 470 A few Remarks on the ...
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... machine , for carrying vessels out of , or into any harbor , port , or river , against wind and tide or in a calm : for which his majesty George II . has granted letters patent for the sole benefit of the author , for the space of ...
... machine , for carrying vessels out of , or into any harbor , port , or river , against wind and tide or in a calm : for which his majesty George II . has granted letters patent for the sole benefit of the author , for the space of ...
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... machine , by means of a wire dipped into it , and communicating with the prime con- ductor , or insulated non - electric , exposed in the manner we have already mentioned to the action of the excited cylinder . He was greatly surprised ...
... machine , by means of a wire dipped into it , and communicating with the prime con- ductor , or insulated non - electric , exposed in the manner we have already mentioned to the action of the excited cylinder . He was greatly surprised ...
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... machine that would manufacture three thousand a minute , but was defrauded of a great share of the benefits derived ... machines , viz : The elevator , the conveyor , the hopper- boy , the drill , and the descender , which five machines ...
... machine that would manufacture three thousand a minute , but was defrauded of a great share of the benefits derived ... machines , viz : The elevator , the conveyor , the hopper- boy , the drill , and the descender , which five machines ...
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... machine to another , through all the various operations , from the time the grain is emp- tied from the wagoner's ... machines in motion . The advantages derived from the se improvements are great in almost every respect , not only ...
... machine to another , through all the various operations , from the time the grain is emp- tied from the wagoner's ... machines in motion . The advantages derived from the se improvements are great in almost every respect , not only ...
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Página 41 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it.
Página 43 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character * among us for learning and ingenuity.
Página 45 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 54 - ... year's instruction in a Latin school, and that when very young, after which I neglected that language entirely. But when I had attained an acquaintance with the French, Italian, and Spanish, I was...
Página 45 - ... my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut...
Página 125 - Twas early day, as poets say, Just when the sun was rising, A soldier stood on a log of wood, And saw a thing surprising. As in amaze he stood to gaze, The truth can't be denied, sir, He spied a score of kegs or more Come floating down the tide, sir. A sailor, too, in jerkin blue, This strange...
Página 279 - ... had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the...
Página 275 - It regulates with perfect accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler, the supply of coals to the fire ; it opens and shuts its valves with absolute precision as to time and manner ; it oils its joints ; it takes out any air which may accidentally...
Página 45 - I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great...
Página 66 - Without my having made any application for that honor, they chose me a member, and voted that I should be excus'd the customary payments, which would have amounted to twenty-five guineas; and ever since have given me their Transactions gratis. They also presented me with the gold medal of Sir Godfrey Copley...