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 285
uld not have made it more exten-sively known, and connected it more closely with his name ; sinceit is a discovery which, by the perfection it imparts to telescopes,opens the way to very important acquisitions in the vast field whichthe heavens still offer to optical instruments in a state of… … JAMES WATT. JAMES WATT. Nature, in her productions slow, aspiresBy just degrees to reach perfections heightSo mimic art works leisurely, till timeImprove the price, or wise experience giveThe proper finishing. ALL the inventions and improvements of recent times, if mea-sured by their effects upon…
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