the outports, whilst those for the Ministerial journals were allowed to proceed. This might have cr...
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life. It was simply the result of persevering diligence, which shrank from no effort and neglected ...
are fixed, so as to form the four pages of the ordinary sheet of The Times; there it is lightly pre...
or acquaintance, that at the end of the first month he thought of leaving it; and yearned to go bac...
contributed to the general movement of mankind.... Each owes all to the others. The forgotten inven...
night in writing or drawing. As part of his business, he undertook to survey land, and to repair c...
and quickness of voyages, the preservation of ships and the lives of men," and so on. The Act proce...
arrangement remained the same. This second machine was finished in 1739. It was more simple in its ...
have instructed workmen in its principles and execution, which I should have been glad of an opport...
his dominion, and clothed the earth with a new garment. The first rude plough that man thrust into ...
advantage of his native country, and Sir Thomas was resolved to venture his money, and to furnish h...
At the middle of last century, Scotland was a very poor country. It consisted mostly of mountain an...
as the engine-shops and shipbuilding-yards of the Clyde abundantly prove. Mechanical power and tech...
others to work out the problem of the locomotive engine. Murdock's model remained but a curious toy...
fleet had fallen from its high estate since the reign of Edward III., who won a battle from the Fre...