Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 354
world. A very innocent explanation is put forward in another tale,relating that one of the first English printers had in his employment a boyof the name of De Ville, or Deville, which name was soon corrupted intothe now familiar title, and became the inheritance of this youths successorsin the…
Inventions
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