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 243
m, it would be almost impossible to describe effects so clearlyas he has done, without actually looking at a machine in operation.His description (although very obscure) is contained in the sixty-eighth proposition, in connection with the ninty-ninth and one hun-dredth of the Century, and evidently… … JAMES FERGUSON. JAMES FERGUSON. JJ37 years thereafter, to receive the sole benefit, profit, and advantageresulting from the use of this machine. But this was of little avail,for like men of a similar genius in more humble life, he was op-pressed by poverty and want of encouragement; and the desire…
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