 | Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...happened >not to think of the (crew.1 ' I then wrote а Ihort account of the machines, and fketchcd out figures of them with a pen, imagining it to be the firft treatife of the kind that ever was -written.' — So early did this Author's genius for mechanics... | |
 | Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...happened not to think of the fcrew.' « I then wrote a ihoct account of the machines, and fketched out figures of them with a pen, imagining it to be the in il treatife of the kind that ever was wriiten.' — So early did this Author's genius for mechanics... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...sometimes used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...I afterwards showed it to a gentleman, who told me that these things were known long before, and showed me a printed book in which they were treated of:... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...for cleaving wood, but then I happened not to think of the screw. I then wrote a short account of the machines, and sketched out figures of them with a...first treatise of the kind that ever was written." So early did this author's genius for mechanics first appear ; and from such small beginnings did that... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...sometimes used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...I afterwards showed it to a gentleman, who told me that these things were known long before, and showed me a printed book in which they were treated of:... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...sometimes used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...was written; but found my mistake, when I afterwards shewed it to a gentleman, who told me that these thiugs were known long before, and shewed me a printed... | |
 | William M'Combie - Conduct of life - 1839 - 264 pages
...sometimes used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...sketched out figures of them with a pen, imagining it the first treatise of the kind that ever was written; but found my mistake when I afterwards shewed... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Education - 1842 - 58 pages
...was Justin proportion to the lengths of the different parts of the bar on either side of the prop. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...figures of them with a pen, imagining it to be the tirst treatise of the kind that ever was written, but found my mistake, when I afterwards showed it... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels, and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...I afterwards showed it to a gentleman, who told me that these things were known long before, and showed me a printed book, in which they were treated... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1853 - 372 pages
...sometimes used, anda little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...to be the first treatise of the kind that ever was wrilten : but found my mistake, when I afterwards showed it to a gentleman, who told me that these... | |
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By means of a turning lathe which my father had, and sometimes used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and sketched out figures of them with a pen,... 
