James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 14
... plans of the inventor . His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind . Many of the most ...
... plans of the inventor . His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind . Many of the most ...
Page 28
... plan was to fit himself by a year's steady work for return to Glasgow , there to begin on his own account . He had not seven years to spend learning what he could learn in one . He would be his own master . Wise young man in this he was ...
... plan was to fit himself by a year's steady work for return to Glasgow , there to begin on his own account . He had not seven years to spend learning what he could learn in one . He would be his own master . Wise young man in this he was ...
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... plan . At last some specimens of his work having seemed very remarkable to Mr. John Morgan , mathematical in- strument maker , Finch Lane , Cornhill , he agreed to give the conquering young man the desired year's instructions for his ...
... plan . At last some specimens of his work having seemed very remarkable to Mr. John Morgan , mathematical in- strument maker , Finch Lane , Cornhill , he agreed to give the conquering young man the desired year's instructions for his ...
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... plan of life early laid down , to begin business on his own account . He thus became master before he was man . There was not in all Scotland a mathematical instrument maker , and here was one of the very best begging permission to ...
... plan of life early laid down , to begin business on his own account . He thus became master before he was man . There was not in all Scotland a mathematical instrument maker , and here was one of the very best begging permission to ...
Page 54
... plans were entertained , only to be finally rejected . At last the flash came into that teeming brain like a stroke of lightning . Eureka ! he had found it . Not one scintilla of doubt ever intruded there- after . The solution lay right ...
... plans were entertained , only to be finally rejected . At last the flash came into that teeming brain like a stroke of lightning . Eureka ! he had found it . Not one scintilla of doubt ever intruded there- after . The solution lay right ...
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