Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics ...Derby & Jackson, 1858 - 482 páginas |
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... soon discharged it , but was obliged to return the seed to my father in the fall . " What makes me pretty sure it happened when I was eleven years of age , is this : it was about one year after I planted the potatoes before I got the ...
... soon discharged it , but was obliged to return the seed to my father in the fall . " What makes me pretty sure it happened when I was eleven years of age , is this : it was about one year after I planted the potatoes before I got the ...
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... soon threw him in the way of a neighboring clockmaker , who proposed to him to enter into his service . On expressing to his parents his desire to learn the business , they strenuously opposed his wishes , and this , too , without any ...
... soon threw him in the way of a neighboring clockmaker , who proposed to him to enter into his service . On expressing to his parents his desire to learn the business , they strenuously opposed his wishes , and this , too , without any ...
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... soon after , the late Mr. James Rumsey , * conceiving he had . made some discoveries in perfecting the same , applied to the state of Pennsylvania for a patent ; but a company formed by John * Biographical Sketch of James Rumsey ...
... soon after , the late Mr. James Rumsey , * conceiving he had . made some discoveries in perfecting the same , applied to the state of Pennsylvania for a patent ; but a company formed by John * Biographical Sketch of James Rumsey ...
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... soon acquiring a great proficiency in his business , in which he was every day becoming more useful to his brother . After some time , too , his access to books was greatly facilitated by the kindness of a liberal - minded merchant ...
... soon acquiring a great proficiency in his business , in which he was every day becoming more useful to his brother . After some time , too , his access to books was greatly facilitated by the kindness of a liberal - minded merchant ...
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... soon after afforded him , very unexpectedly , an opportunity of extricating himself from his indenture to his brother , who had all along treated him with great harshness , and to whom his rising literary reputation only made him more ...
... soon after afforded him , very unexpectedly , an opportunity of extricating himself from his indenture to his brother , who had all along treated him with great harshness , and to whom his rising literary reputation only made him more ...
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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...