Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics ...Derby & Jackson, 1858 - 482 páginas |
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... perform a contract for the printing of some paper money for the State of New Jersey , which required a variety of cuts and types that nobody else in the place could supply ; and the two having gone together to Burlington to superintend ...
... perform a contract for the printing of some paper money for the State of New Jersey , which required a variety of cuts and types that nobody else in the place could supply ; and the two having gone together to Burlington to superintend ...
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... perform upon honor before our next meeting . As we played pretty equally , we thus beat one another into that anguage . I afterwards , with a little pains - taking , acquired as much of the Spanish as to read their books also . I have ...
... perform upon honor before our next meeting . As we played pretty equally , we thus beat one another into that anguage . I afterwards , with a little pains - taking , acquired as much of the Spanish as to read their books also . I have ...
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... performed , as the doctor was not very expert ; " but being , " says Franklin , " on a subject quite new to me ... performing those also which we had an account of from England , adding a number of new ones . I say much practice , for my ...
... performed , as the doctor was not very expert ; " but being , " says Franklin , " on a subject quite new to me ... performing those also which we had an account of from England , adding a number of new ones . I say much practice , for my ...
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... performed that operation , as well as upon the cylinder , since it had rendered him incapable of being electrified by a pro- cess by which , in other circumstances , he would have been so . It was plain , in short , that the electricity ...
... performed that operation , as well as upon the cylinder , since it had rendered him incapable of being electrified by a pro- cess by which , in other circumstances , he would have been so . It was plain , in short , that the electricity ...
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... performed with it , at his leisure , all the experiments that could be performed with elec- tricity . But he did not stop here . His active and practical mind was not satisfied even with the splendid discovery , until he had turned it ...
... performed with it , at his leisure , all the experiments that could be performed with elec- tricity . But he did not stop here . His active and practical mind was not satisfied even with the splendid discovery , until he had turned it ...
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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...