Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 134
wship and affection w^hich will burn to the end. Burnto the end!—perhaps some of us should think of that,who are burning the candle at both ends. Ah! well,may it so happen to us that when at last this vital sparkis oxydized, when this combustible has put on incombus-tion, when this living fire… … William Richard Jones1839-1889 132 William Richard Jones.▼ ▼ ▼ The most important man in the Carnegie scheme.Such is the high praise given to William R. Jones. Hewas par excellence a captam of industry. His father wasa clergyman, who came to this country from Wales in1832 and was located in…
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