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 326
fortune ; and, in the spirit in which he had lived,he left the greater part of it to be divided among his workmen, inproportion to their merits and their length of service. EARL OF STANHOPE. THIS eccentric and ingenious nobleman was born at Chevening,Kent, in August, 1753. In his 9th year he was… … STANHOPE. 14* STANHOPE. 321 months afterwards, he gained a prize, offered by a national aca-demy for the best paper written in French, on the construction ofthe pendulum. The earl was the author of a great number of inventions andimprovements in the arts and philosophy. Among those whichattracted…
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