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" already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of electricity and magnetism, and many causes combine to justify the expectation that we are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared... "
Electric Railways and the Electric Transmission of Power Described in Plain ... - Page 24
by Robert Luce - 1886 - 106 pages
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 29

Industrial arts - 1838 - 520 pages
...Doctor doth so far forget himself as to say on another occasion, " Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena...and many causes combine to justify the expectation [belief] that ire are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than ang which have yet appeared...
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The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an Historical ...

Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1836 - 368 pages
...entific men are held, and the personal honours and rewards which begin to be conferred upon them, all justify the expectation that we are on the eve of...which have yet appeared ; and that the steam engine itselff with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt, will dwindle into insignificance...
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The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an Historical ...

Dionysius Lardner - Steam engines - 1836 - 366 pages
...scientific men are held, and the personal honours and rewards which begin to be conferred upon them, all justify the expectation that we are on the eve of...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared 5 and that the steam engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt,...
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The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated: With an Historical ...

Dionysius Lardner - Engines - 1836 - 362 pages
...mechanical agents will altogether supersede the use of coal. Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of electricity and magnetism. The alternate decomposition and recomposition of water, by magnetism and electricity, has too close...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 27

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1837 - 504 pages
...anticipated the invention of which we are speaking. " Philosophy," said he, " already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena...greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt, will dwindle...
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 27

Industrial arts - 1837 - 494 pages
...anticipated the invention of which we are speaking. " Philosophy," said he, " already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena...greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred upon it by the immortal Watt, will dwindle...
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The Southern Botanic Journal, Volumes 1-2

Medicine, Botanic - 1838 - 860 pages
...in the following passage in his work on the steam engine: "Philosophy already directs her finger to sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena of...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared — that ' the steam engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred on it by the immortal Watt,...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 5; Volume 11

American literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...— even the learned Doctor also says on another page : — " Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena...discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared; that the steam-engine itself, with the gigantic powers conferred on it by the immortal Watt, will dwindle...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 62

English literature - 1838 - 588 pages
...this head. ' Philosophy/ he says, in his book on the steam-engine — ' already directs her fiugcr at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena...the expectation that we are on the eve of mechanical discoreria still greater than any wluch have yet appeared; and that the steiitengine itself, with the...
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The Mechanic's Register, Volumes 1-2

Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...anticipated the invention o which we are speaking. " Philosophy," saic he, "already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power in the phenomena...combine to justify the expectation that we are on the era of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared ; and that the steam engine...
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