Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics ...Derby & Jackson, 1858 - 482 pages |
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... England Primer all by heart , from Adam's fall to the end of the catechism . But the most surprising thing of my learning ap pears to me to be this : My father had an old arithmetic book in the house , by one Hodder , with the old ...
... England Primer all by heart , from Adam's fall to the end of the catechism . But the most surprising thing of my learning ap pears to me to be this : My father had an old arithmetic book in the house , by one Hodder , with the old ...
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... England . I knew no better , but thought myself perfect master , but learned nothing of logarithms , or of calculation by latitude and departure , only geometrically . As I had learned common arithmetic out of school by myself , I had ...
... England . I knew no better , but thought myself perfect master , but learned nothing of logarithms , or of calculation by latitude and departure , only geometrically . As I had learned common arithmetic out of school by myself , I had ...
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... England . With siender means of his own , and aided , or rather mocked , by some timid and unsteady patronage , he there resumed with untiring energy his great undertaking . He proceeded to procure patents of the British government for ...
... England . With siender means of his own , and aided , or rather mocked , by some timid and unsteady patronage , he there resumed with untiring energy his great undertaking . He proceeded to procure patents of the British government for ...
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... England under the supposed patronage of the governor . - Disap- pointment and imposition . - Thrown upon his own resources , and works in London as a journeyman printer . - Writes a pamphlet . - Attracts the attention of literary men ...
... England under the supposed patronage of the governor . - Disap- pointment and imposition . - Thrown upon his own resources , and works in London as a journeyman printer . - Writes a pamphlet . - Attracts the attention of literary men ...
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... England about twenty - four years before , followed the occupation of a soap- boiler and tallow - chandler , a business to which he had not been bred , and by which he seems with difficulty to have been able to support his numerous ...
... England about twenty - four years before , followed the occupation of a soap- boiler and tallow - chandler , a business to which he had not been bred , and by which he seems with difficulty to have been able to support his numerous ...
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Page 41 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it.
Page 43 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character * among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 45 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 54 - ... year's instruction in a Latin school, and that when very young, after which I neglected that language entirely. But when I had attained an acquaintance with the French, Italian, and Spanish, I was...
Page 45 - ... my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut...
Page 125 - Twas early day, as poets say, Just when the sun was rising, A soldier stood on a log of wood, And saw a thing surprising. As in amaze he stood to gaze, The truth can't be denied, sir, He spied a score of kegs or more Come floating down the tide, sir. A sailor, too, in jerkin blue, This strange...
Page 279 - ... had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the...
Page 275 - It regulates with perfect accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler, the supply of coals to the fire ; it opens and shuts its valves with absolute precision as to time and manner ; it oils its joints ; it takes out any air which may accidentally...
Page 45 - I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great...
Page 66 - Without my having made any application for that honor, they chose me a member, and voted that I should be excus'd the customary payments, which would have amounted to twenty-five guineas; and ever since have given me their Transactions gratis. They also presented me with the gold medal of Sir Godfrey Copley...