A History of Wonderful Inventions, Bind 1–2Harper & brothers, 1849 |
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Side 102 - between London and Woolwich, the reviewer adds—"We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy
Side 8 - he set to work to produce a practical exposition of his ideas on the subject in the shape of an acting machine, which he described in his work in the following terms :— " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, intra sphœram
Side 22 - something of the world, and am obliged to say I never saw such another instance of general and cordial attachment to a person whom all acknowledged to be their superior." It was about the year 1762, or 1763, that Watt's attention appears to have been first turned to the principle of the steamengine, when he
Side 116 - of all things finds room for the exercise of His attributes, where he can raise another mechanism of worlds, and fill and animate them all with evidences of His glory.
Side 1 - evaporation they will exert a mechanical force sufficient to draw two tons weight on the railway a distance of one mile in two minutes. Four horses working in a stage-coach on a common road are necessary to draw the same weight the
Side 20 - you have been holding the saucers and the spoons over the steam, and you have been endeavouring to catch the drops of water formed on them by the vapour. Is it not a shame for you to waste your time so
Side 42 - The first author who has introduced the term as applicable to a clock that struck the hours appears to be Dante, who was born in 1265, and died in 1321. In Italy, however, it would appear that striking clocks moved by weights were known in the latter part of the twelfth
Side 20 - do you permit this child,' said he, ' to waste his time so ; why not send him to school?' Mr. Watt replied, 'You judge him hastily ; before you condemn us ascertain how he is employed.' On examining the boy, then six years of age, it was found that he was engaged in the solution of a problem of Euclid
Side 109 - procured; secondly, of the dip-pipes and condensing main, employed to conduct the gas into vessels, where it is removed from the tar and other gross products that come over the gas and tend to impair the brilliancy of the light ; thirdly, of the purifying apparatus, for abstracting the sulphuretted hydrogen, carbonic acid, &c.,
Side 81 - two on the Tyne, one on the Orwell, eighteen on the Clyde, two on the Tay, two at Dundee, six on the Forth, two at Cork, two on the Mersey, three on the Yare, one on the Avon, one on the Severn, and two intended to run between Dublin and