 | Robert Stuart - 1824 - 408 pages
...mechanism in which the little that theorists have done is more useless. The honour of bringing it to its present state of perfection, therefore, belongs to...Newcomen was a blacksmith, and his partner Cawley a glazier; — Don Kicardo Trevi thick was also an operative mechanic; and so was the illustrious Watt,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1824 - 470 pages
...mechanism in which the little that theorists have done, is more use'ess. The honour of bringing it. to its present state of perfection, therefore, belongs to...has preserved to us, the fact of Savery having begun Hfe as a working miner; — Newcomen was a blacksmith, and his partner, Cawley, was a glazier; —... | |
 | 1824 - 726 pages
...mechanism in which the little that theorists have done, is more useless. The honour of bringing it to its present state of perfection, therefore, belongs to...by them only ; for tradition has preserved to us, tile fact of Savery having begun life as a working miner ; — Newcomen was a blacksmith, and his partner,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 pages
...mechanism in which the little that theorists have done is more useless. The honour of bringing it to its present state of perfection, therefore, belongs to...Newcomen was a blacksmith, and his partner Cawley a glazier ; — Don Ricardo Trevithick was also an operative mechanic; and so was the illustrious Watt,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1831 - 378 pages
...mechanism in which the little that theorists have done is more useless. The honour of bringing it to its present state of perfection, therefore, belongs to...class. It arose, was improved and perfected by working mechanics—and by them only; for tradition has preserved to us the fact of Savery having begun life... | |
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Indeed, there is no machine or mechanism in which the little that theorists have done is more useless. The honour of bringing it to its present state of perfection, therefore, belongs to a different and more useful class. It arose, was improved and perfected... 