Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain, Том 2J. Murray, 1862 - 502 страници |
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Страница 121 - Parliament, statutes and ordains that there be a school settled and established and a schoolmaster appointed in every parish not already provided by advice of the heritors and minister of the parish...
Страница 43 - There were still many who persisted in asserting that no building erected of stone could possibly stand upon the Eddystone ; and again and again the engineer, in the dim grey of the morning, would come out and peer through his telescope at his deep-sea lamp-post. Sometimes he had to wait long, until he could see a tall white pillar of spray shoot up into the air. Thank God ! it was still safe. Then, as the light grew, he could discern his building, temporary house and all, standing firm amidst the...
Страница 135 - Pennant's remark that he remembered it " a deep hollow road, and full of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats ; insomuch," he adds, " that I never was taken that way by night in my hackney-coach to a worthy uncle's, who gave me lodgings in his house in George Street, but I went in dread the whole way.
Страница 132 - There be many smiths in the town that use to make knives and all manner of cutting tools and many lorimers that make bits, and a great many nailers. So that a great part of the town is maintained by smiths. The smiths there have iron out of Staffordshire and Warwickshire and sea coal out of Staffordshire.
Страница 79 - When I was in London I was received very kindly by Mr. " Cavendish and Dr. Blagden, and my old friend Smeaton, " who has now recovered his health, and seems hearty. I " dined at a turtle feast with them and the select club of the " Royal Society ; and never was turtle eaten with greater " sobriety and temperance, or more good fellowship.
Страница 423 - Smethwick crowds of boatmen were always quarrelling, or offering premiums for a preference of passage ; and the mine-owners, injured by the delay, were loud in their just complaints.
Страница 28 - Smeaton also had regard to durability as an important element in the structure, for he adds, " in contemplating the use and benefit of such a structure as this, my ideas of what its duration and continued existence ought to be, were not confined within the boundary of one age or two, but extended themselves to look towards a possible perpetuity.
Страница iii - Bid harbours open, public ways extend, Bid temples worthier of the God ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours, peace to happy BRITAIN brings, These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Страница 9 - He forged his iron and steel, and melted his metal. He had tools of every sort for working in wood, ivory, and metals. He had made a lathe, by which he cut a perpetual screw in brass, — a thing little known at that day, and which, I believe, was the invention of Mr.
Страница 27 - ... of what he knew of him was, his having within the compass of the last seven years, recommended himself to the Society by the communication of several mechanical inventions and improvements; and though he had at first made it his business to execute things in the instrument way (without...