Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 93
g before science was dreamt of, they had towork by rule-of-thumb, but the thumb was joined to brains thatdid honor to human nature. On page 56 is illustrated the VikingShip unearthed early in 1880 at Godstad, near Sandef jord in Nor-way, in a mound where, according to tradition, a king and… … A FAMOUS CLIPPER 57 and pictured in The Viking Ship, by Mr. N. Nicolaysen, awork published in 1882 by Mr. Albert Cammermeyer, Christiania.Mr. Nicolaysen regards the vessel as having been built about A. D.900, for use in war by the great chieftain whose tomb it be-came. The ship was 65 feet, 10…
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