Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 34
. Sitting upon the 28 OBSERVATION OF COLUMBUS. floods, it opens to new enterprises. The Compasstwinkling on its card was a beam from heaven; thattiny magnet was given as a seniory of earth and sky.Like a new revelation, the mysteries of an unknownworld were miveiled; like a new illapse, the bold… … Franklin at his Case. WHO INVENTED FEINTING, AND WHERE? • The inquirers into the origin and history of this al-most ubiquitous noble craft and mystery would seemto have arrived at this conclusion—that it is difficult tosay at what period of time the art of Printing did notexist. The simplest and…
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