Heroes of the Laboratory and the WorkshopG. Routledge and Sons, 1859 - 222 страници |
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... engaged in , and this was the cause of his success . At length the undertaking , so long a source of anxiety and expense , began to be remunerative , and from that time wealth continued to flow in abundantly to the proprietors . The ...
... engaged in , and this was the cause of his success . At length the undertaking , so long a source of anxiety and expense , began to be remunerative , and from that time wealth continued to flow in abundantly to the proprietors . The ...
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... engaged in the millwright business on his own account ; but he did not confine himself to the making of mill - machinery . In 1752 , he contrived an improved engine for draining some coal - pits at Clifton , in Lancashire , which was ...
... engaged in the millwright business on his own account ; but he did not confine himself to the making of mill - machinery . In 1752 , he contrived an improved engine for draining some coal - pits at Clifton , in Lancashire , which was ...
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... engaged in the work , it would have proved a failure , and the improvement of our inland navigation would most likely have been delayed till some years later . The Duke of Bridgewater's canal was referred to at that time by the ...
... engaged in the work , it would have proved a failure , and the improvement of our inland navigation would most likely have been delayed till some years later . The Duke of Bridgewater's canal was referred to at that time by the ...
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... engaged in his schemes of inland navigation , that he is reported , when asked , before a Committee of the House of Commons , for what purpose he supposed rivers were created , to have replied , after some deli- beration , " to feed ...
... engaged in his schemes of inland navigation , that he is reported , when asked , before a Committee of the House of Commons , for what purpose he supposed rivers were created , to have replied , after some deli- beration , " to feed ...
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... engaged himself to work at a goldsmith's shop , and was employed by the wife of a wealthy merchant to reset some exceedingly valuable jewellery , for which he received a handsome reward . Afterwards he received a commission from the ...
... engaged himself to work at a goldsmith's shop , and was employed by the wife of a wealthy merchant to reset some exceedingly valuable jewellery , for which he received a handsome reward . Afterwards he received a commission from the ...
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