 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1854 - 364 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...imagining it to be the first treatise of the kind thnt ever was written : but found my mistake, when I afterwards showed it to a gentleman, who told... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...constructing a variety of these machines. He then prepared an account of them ; imagining it, as he says, " to be the first treatise of the kind that ever was written," till a gentleman, to whom the manuscript was shown, convinced him of his error, by putting into his... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 552 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 of:... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 pages
...used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make the wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. " I then wrote a short account of these machines, and...first treatise of the kind that ever was written. From that time my mind preserved a constant tendency to improve in that science. But as my father could... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 476 pages
...philosopher felt so proud, that ho wrote an account and drew models of them on paper, imagining this to be the first treatise of the kind that ever was written. His father, however, was too poor to admit of his son following out these studies ; and at the age... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose.1" Wheel and Axle. 1719. — I then wrote a short account...• Ferguson here explains the action of the wheel aiui axle question in language so simple that it can scarcely l>e misunderstood ; but as some of our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1870 - 650 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 Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 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 earlydid this philosopher's genius for mechanics first appear ; and from such small beginnings did... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 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 philosopher's genius for mechanics first appear ; and from such small beginnings... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 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...that ever was written : but found my mistake when I afterward shewed it to a Gentleman, who told me that these things were known long before, and shewed... | |
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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,... 
