 | Frédéric Ozanam - 1897 - 536 pages
...a brilliant light. One may multiply this phenomenon so far as to destroy a city or an army. Art cau construct instruments of navigation such that the...which, without the aid of any animal, will run with immeasurable swiftness." ' Roger Bacon, however, could tear himself away from such attractive investigations... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906 - 544 pages
...governed by a single man unto which the largest of our vessels are mere cockleshells and which can traverse rivers and seas more rapidly than if they were filled with oarsmen. We may also make carriages which, without the aid of animals, will run with immeasurable rapidity."... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1907 - 660 pages
...that one of the great applications of such a force would be for transportation. Accordingly he said: "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...of any animal will run with remarkable swiftness."* When we recall that the very latest thing in transportation are motor-boats and automobiles driven... | |
 | 1907 - 728 pages
...that one of the great applications of such a force would be for transportation. Accordingly, he said: "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...which, without the aid of any animal, will run with im-measurable swiftness." When we recall that the very latest things in transportation are motor-boats... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1908 - 462 pages
...that one of the great applications of such a force would be for transportation. Accordingly he said: "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...of any animal will run with remarkable swiftness." When we recall that the very latest thing in transportation are motor-boats and automobiles driven... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 540 pages
...that one of the great applications of such a force would be for transportation. Accordingly he said: “Art can construct instruments of navigation such...will traverse rivers and seas more rapidly than if the' were filled with oarsmen. One may also make carriages which without the aid of any animal will... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - 1912 - 460 pages
...that one of the great applications of such a force would be for transportation. Accordingly he said: "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...of any animal will run with remarkable swiftness." When we recall that the very latest thing in transportation are motor-boats and automobiles driven... | |
 | John Theodore Slattery - 1920 - 320 pages
...use of even motor boats and automobiles driven by gasoline, this thirteenth century scientist wrote: "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...of any animal, will run with remarkable swiftness." This man whose clarity of vision anticipated those discoveries of the nineteenth century, left three... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1927 - 622 pages
...gunpowder, glimpsed the internal combustion engine, and the means of fulfilling the Homeric desire. He wrote "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...more rapidly than if they were filled with oarsmen." A steamboat had probably been suggested by 1651, and built by 1738, and we have patents with descriptions... | |
 | Patent Office Society (U.S.) - 1927 - 626 pages
...gunpowder, glimpsed the internal combustion engine, and the means of fulfilling the Homeric desire. He wrote "Art can construct instruments of navigation such...more rapidly than if they were filled with oarsmen." A steamboat had probably been suggested by 1651, and we have patents with descriptions of 1729 and... | |
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Art can construct instruments of navigation, such that the largest vessels governed by a single man will traverse rivers and seas more rapidly than if they were filled with oarsmen. One may also make carriages which without the aid of any animal will... 