 ... health permitted, his young ardent mind was constantly occupied, not with one but many pursuits. Every new acquisition in science, languages, or general literature, seemed made without an effort. While under his father's roof, he went on with various...  Inventors at Work: With Chapters on Discovery - Page 295by George Iles - 1906 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...he went on with various chemical experiments, repeating them again and again, until satisfied with their accuracy from his own observations. He had made for himself a small electrical machine, with which he shocked and surprised his young friends. At the age of fourteen he studied anatomy also,... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...While under " his father's roof, he went on with various chemical experi" ments, repeating them again and again until satisfied of " their accuracy from...young friends by giving them sudden shocks " from it." We pause here to remark that in point of novelty, and, indeed, also of the mental capacity required... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...While under " his father's roof, he went on with various chemical experi" ments, repeating them again and again until satisfied of " their accuracy from...young friends by giving them sudden shocks " from it." We pause here to remark that in point of novelty, and, indeed, also of the mental capacity required... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1860 - 368 pages
...and "while under his father's roof he went on with various chymical experiments, repeating them again and again, until satisfied of their accuracy from his own observations." He even made himself a small electrical machine about 1750-53, — no mean performance at that date ;... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pages
..." while under his father's roof he went on with various chemical experiments, repeating them again and again, until satisfied of their accuracy from his own observations." He even made himself a small electrical machine about 1750-53 ; no mean performance at that date, since,... | |
 | University of Glasgow - 1901 - 176 pages
...While " under his father's roof, he went on with various chemical " experiments, repeating them again and again until satisfied " of their accuracy from...young friends by giving them sudden shocks from it." After the age of thirteen he was often in Glasgow with his uncle, Mr. Muirhead, taking opportunity... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1901 - 34 pages
...While " under his father's roof, he went on with various chemical " experiments, repeating them again and again until satisfied " of their accuracy from...young friends by giving them sudden shocks from it." After the age of thirteen he was often in Glasgow with his uncle, Mr. Muir head, taking opportunity... | |
 | George Iles - 1906 - 586 pages
...best. While under his father's roof, he went on with various chemical experiments, repeating them again and again until satisfied of their accuracy from his...life. His industry was ceaseless; he was Astonishing , , . .... , . Precocity of busy from mormng to night drawing, planmng Ericsson and constructing. The... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - 394 pages
...effort. While under his father's roof, he went on with various chemical experiments, repeating them again and again until satisfied of their accuracy from his...young friends by giving them sudden shocks from it." studied mathematics with much greater zest under Mr John Marr, a relative of his family. He also got... | |
 | Kelvin - 1890 - 402 pages
...effort. While under his father's roof, he went on with various chemical experiments, repeating them again and again until satisfied of their accuracy from his...young friends by giving them sudden shocks from it." studied mathematics with much greater zest under Mr John Marr, a relative of his family. He also got... | |
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