The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 86
er he was again ban-ished at the age of nineteen years. He went to Stras-burg, where he remained ten years in study; he wasinvited to return to Mayence and refused, whereupon hewas proscribed as a public enemy, and in the meantimereceived concealed aid from his mother. His popularityin Strasburg… … JOHN GUTENBERG.{From apnnt in the National Libraiy at Pans.) (p. 81) GESTATION OF THE NEW AET. 83 Ms confiscated patrimony. With his wealth in hispossession, he was able to study and travel, during whichhe visited men of science, artisans and artists. It was at the epoch, says Lamartine, in…
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