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 20
e good sense kept him from excess. He was born in 1705, and died in 1790. He hadlived a long life in a genial, generous, useful fashion, per-mitting a rare good sense to be the handmaid of a warmlove for his fellow men. He closed it as he himself hadsung six years before the summons came:*If Lifes… … Fitclfs Steamboat lyyo John Fitch. 1743-1798 T T T In the latter years of his hfe John Fitch looked backon an incident of his childhood as a harbinger of the ill-luck that persistently followed him to his grave. He was only five years old when left alone in thehouse with his younger sister. She…
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