A History of Wonderful Inventions, Bind 1–2Harper & brothers, 1849 |
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Side 29
... successfully held , and Gibraltar still remains one of the principal strongholds of British power in Europe . During the progress of the siege , the fortifications were. ST . GEORGE'S HALL , GIBRALTAR DESTRUCTION OF THE JOHN OF GAUNT ...
... successfully held , and Gibraltar still remains one of the principal strongholds of British power in Europe . During the progress of the siege , the fortifications were. ST . GEORGE'S HALL , GIBRALTAR DESTRUCTION OF THE JOHN OF GAUNT ...
Side 69
... successful in getting his inven- tion generally adopted by the trade . His numerous pursuits , combined with the sudden death of his patron Lord Camelford , in all probability prevented his bestowing that constant appli- cation so ...
... successful in getting his inven- tion generally adopted by the trade . His numerous pursuits , combined with the sudden death of his patron Lord Camelford , in all probability prevented his bestowing that constant appli- cation so ...
Side 116
... the visual organs . But the individual who was most successful in developing the abstruse doctrines on which the compound microscope was to be most advantageously improved , was Mr. Jackson Lister 116 WONDERFUL INVENTIONS .
... the visual organs . But the individual who was most successful in developing the abstruse doctrines on which the compound microscope was to be most advantageously improved , was Mr. Jackson Lister 116 WONDERFUL INVENTIONS .
Side 6
... successful . It was about a century and a half ago that a steam- engine , constructed on an imperfect principle , was first used for the raising of water out of mines , which , though much improved upon during the next eighty years ...
... successful . It was about a century and a half ago that a steam- engine , constructed on an imperfect principle , was first used for the raising of water out of mines , which , though much improved upon during the next eighty years ...
Side 27
... successfully . By the middle of the year 1765 , his invention was completed ; and the effect of it was that a great saving was effected in the cost of fuel , as it did away with a large amount of wasteful expenditure of steam power ...
... successfully . By the middle of the year 1765 , his invention was completed ; and the effect of it was that a great saving was effected in the cost of fuel , as it did away with a large amount of wasteful expenditure of steam power ...
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afterwards Anthemius appears application Arkwright ascertain atmosphere ball beautiful became boat boiler brought called century clock coal colours common compass condenser construction contrived convex cotton cylinder Dalswinton direction discovered discovery distance earth EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE effect electric telegraph employed engaged engine England EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI experiments feet fire force formed four Galileo gasometer glass gunpowder Guttenberg hand heat Hero of Alexandria Holyhead horse hour hundred immense improvement inches instrument invention inventor iron Julius Cæsar labour length lens lenses letters light London machine magnetic Marquis of Worcester means mercury Messrs microscope miles moved needle object observed obtained opened pass patent philosopher piece pipe piston placed present principle printing produced purpose railway reflecting telescope rendered rollers round ship side Soho Foundry steam steam-engine surface telegraph telescope thermometer thousand threads tion tons tube turned upwards vessel warp Watt weft weight wheel wire yarn
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Side 20 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Side 106 - Achromatic Lenses. The color effect caused by the chromatic aberration of a simple lens greatly impairs its usefulness.
Side 12 - ... which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Side 48 - There was exhibited on it a negro, a shepherd, and a dog. When the clock struck, the shepherd played six tunes on his flute, and the dog approached and fawned upon him. This clock was exhibited to the king of Spain, who was greatly delighted with it. " The gentleness of my dog," said Droz,
Side 12 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough...
Side 54 - Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with...
Side 77 - As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building-yard while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the ' dry jest ; the wise calculations of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton Folly.
Side 12 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Side 93 - The manner of the carriage is, by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Side 78 - The man who, while he looked on the expensive machine. thanked his stars that he had more wisdom than to waste his money on such idle schemes, changed the expression of his features as the boat moved from the wharf and gained her speed; his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder.