Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics ...Derby & Jackson, 1858 - 482 pages |
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... difficulties and opposition thrown in the way by Ravago , the invention was ap proved ; and if the expedition in which Charles V. was then engaged had not failed , it would undoubtedly have been favered by him . As it was , he raised ...
... difficulties and opposition thrown in the way by Ravago , the invention was ap proved ; and if the expedition in which Charles V. was then engaged had not failed , it would undoubtedly have been favered by him . As it was , he raised ...
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... difficulty in the execution of his plan prevent him from endeavoring to bring it to perfection , so long as the shareholders furnished the means of defraying the expenses . Indeel , disappointment and oppression appear to have borne him ...
... difficulty in the execution of his plan prevent him from endeavoring to bring it to perfection , so long as the shareholders furnished the means of defraying the expenses . Indeel , disappointment and oppression appear to have borne him ...
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... Difficulties and embarrassments of a pecuniary nature , and such as invari- ably obstruct the progress of a new invention , attended him in England . He was often compelled to abandon temporarily his main object , and turn his atten ...
... Difficulties and embarrassments of a pecuniary nature , and such as invari- ably obstruct the progress of a new invention , attended him in England . He was often compelled to abandon temporarily his main object , and turn his atten ...
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... difficulty to have been able to support his numerous family . At first it was proposed to make Benjamin a clergyman ; and he was accordingly , having before learned to read , put to the grammar - school at eight years of age ; -an uncle ...
... difficulty to have been able to support his numerous family . At first it was proposed to make Benjamin a clergyman ; and he was accordingly , having before learned to read , put to the grammar - school at eight years of age ; -an uncle ...
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... Difficulties attending their introduction . - Opposition of the Brandywine_millers . - Petitions the Le- gislature of Pennsylvania for the right of using his mill improvements and steam carriages . - The former granted and the latter ...
... Difficulties attending their introduction . - Opposition of the Brandywine_millers . - Petitions the Le- gislature of Pennsylvania for the right of using his mill improvements and steam carriages . - The former granted and the latter ...
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