Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 235
anxious to do so. A less painful result of the employment ofonly two men is related. On some pique arising between themthey forebore to speak to each other, and incredible as it may ap-pear, spent a month together in this wild solitude, without exchang-ing a word. Another anecdote of the lighthouse… … EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE IN A STORM. JOHN SMEATON. 229 should choose to become a light-keeper, at scarce ten shillings aweek, when, as I am told, you can earn half-a-crown and threeshillings a day in making leather hose ? Why,11 answered thecraftsman, I go to be a light-keeper, because I don1t like…
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