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 457
an be turnedto that particular purpose; so it is the heat thrown out by theburning coal which performs all the multifarious operations of thesteam engine, the machinery being only the connecting links be-tween the cause and the effect. Perhaps these remarks may induce any projector who has notyet… … This ingenious contrivance,, like tiio catamarans and massulahboats of Madras, is used for landing with safety through a heavysurf. The Balsa,11 which is especially employed on the coasts ofSouth America, both east and west, exhibits a remarkable instanceof the ingenuity of the human mind in…
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