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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica - Page 16
by John Scott Russell - 1841 - 331 pages
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Transactions, Volume 2

Glasgow Archaeological Society - 1883 - 416 pages
...adeptorum libri iv. Lipsiae, 1768. 8vo, pp. [48] 548 [12]. WORCESTER (HENRY SOMERSET, MARQUIS or). A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected. London, 1663. 12ino, pp. [20] 72 [2, blank, 9, 1 blank]. A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such...
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The Mechanical Engineering of Collieries, Part 1, Volume 1

Cornelius McLeod Percy - 1886 - 674 pages
...vanity of the man was as great as the talent of the inventor. His famous book was entitled by himself " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind having tried and perfected (my former notes being lost)." The article referring to his great application...
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The Romance of Invention: Vignettes from the Annals of Industry and Science

James Burnley - 1886 - 420 pages
...highly important, inventions. He published his "Century" in 1663. This professed to give "the name and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected ; " and included, as its chief feature, what has been generally accepted as being the germ of the steam-engine....
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Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, Volume 34

1912 - 1040 pages
...Propositionen /etc. 1686. Ein paar englische Gegenstücke dazu sind E. Sommerset, Marquis of Worcester, A Century of the names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind. 1663 (diese Schrift kenne ich nur aus den Angaben, die L. B eck, G. d. E. 2, 922 f. darüber macht)...
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The Mechanical Engineering of Collieries, Volume 2

Cornelius McLeod Percy - 1892 - 518 pages
...vanity of the man was as great as the talent of the inventor. His famous book was entitled by himself " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can caU to mind having tried and perfected (my former notes being lost)." The article referring to his...
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Automata Old and New

Conrad William Cooke - 1893 - 148 pages
...The Mysteries of Nature and Art. Sm. 4to. London, 1654. 14. Edward Somerset (Marquis of Worcester). A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind". 121110. London, 1746. IJ- Agostino Ramelli. Le Diverse et artificiose Machine. Folio. Paris, 1588....
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The New Review, Volume 17

1897 - 794 pages
...Rabelais remains, and that will only die with the death of Pantagruel himself. CHARLES WHIBLEY. * " A century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...as at present I can call to mind to have tried and pe.fected (my former notes being lost)," with much more to the same purpose. RICHARD VERSTEGAN (alias...
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The Antiquary, Volume 34

Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1898 - 408 pages
...had a shop at the head of the Saltmarket. Of a superior description was ' ' A Century of the Names or Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind," by the Marquis of Worcester. This was printed by R. and A. Foulis, 1767, and, like all Fouhs' works,...
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Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands ...: Offered ...

Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1899 - 624 pages
...8s in cloth) ; hf. calf neat ' 1881 etc. 660 1407 WORCESTER (Edward Somerset, Marquis of) died 1667. A CENTURY OF THE Names and Scantlings OF SUCH INVENTIONS,...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected . . Printed by J. Grismond in the year 1663. 12mo. 52 leaves, the last one Hank; in the original binding...
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A List of Books on Industrial Arts. October, 1903

John Crerar Library - 1904 - 762 pages
...illus., facsims. 2 port. (incl. front.), l fold. plan. 23"". With reproduction of the original t.-p. of "A century of the names and scantlings of such...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected." "Editions of the Century," p. 374-375. "Catalogue of early scientific works," p. 589-597. "Catalogue...
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