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... vessels , provided Iwith the S- -s cut - off . Beneath the cloud , on which rested this imposing monarchy , appeared the wretched Isherwood and the Water Commissioners of Detroit , pendant , heads downward , and grasping frantically at ...
... vessels , provided Iwith the S- -s cut - off . Beneath the cloud , on which rested this imposing monarchy , appeared the wretched Isherwood and the Water Commissioners of Detroit , pendant , heads downward , and grasping frantically at ...
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... vessel under sail , and the engines doing their utmost . That was brilliant ! But coyness would seem to settle upon those cogs , and paralyze those dash - pots ; and then we have discon- nected the propeller , and so made eleven - and ...
... vessel under sail , and the engines doing their utmost . That was brilliant ! But coyness would seem to settle upon those cogs , and paralyze those dash - pots ; and then we have discon- nected the propeller , and so made eleven - and ...
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... soli- tary suggestion respecting it . I have simply paid for the work done under his directions . Knowing nothing whatever about steam myself , I entrusted that de- partment of my vessel entirely to the friendly supervision of 42.
... soli- tary suggestion respecting it . I have simply paid for the work done under his directions . Knowing nothing whatever about steam myself , I entrusted that de- partment of my vessel entirely to the friendly supervision of 42.
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... vessel was held subject to Mr. D- -n's orders for the purpose of making a further trial , and he was repeatedly invited to do so , but would not . He having abandoned her , I called in the aid of two of the best engineers in New York ...
... vessel was held subject to Mr. D- -n's orders for the purpose of making a further trial , and he was repeatedly invited to do so , but would not . He having abandoned her , I called in the aid of two of the best engineers in New York ...
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... vessel with her " adapted machinery " by the reply that she would make 11 to 12 knots an hour , ( a statement , by - the - by , which , when I made it to Mr. Jerome , so surprised him as to occasion the exclamation , that " if she could ...
... vessel with her " adapted machinery " by the reply that she would make 11 to 12 knots an hour , ( a statement , by - the - by , which , when I made it to Mr. Jerome , so surprised him as to occasion the exclamation , that " if she could ...
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1st of January adaptation arm chair bang beheld black bottle boiler BOOK DUE brazen dash-pot Byron Captain City Hall click-up cloud coal cogs commenced companion Continental contractors Corlear's Hook cost coyness crash cylinder cylinder-head dash Diddle dol drank engine-room entire fair to calculate firemen Forbes genius gine gleam gold handspikes HARVARD COLLEGE heard Hebrew Melodies heroic injection-valves intellect intuitive knowledge Isherwood James Watt Jerome Jerome's yacht link-motion Lord Byron's Mariotte's Law Mattingly metal minutes monkey-tail Navy Department never noble novel machinery Pensacola piston PLAN PLAN PLAN pots revolutions RIGGS rings of Saturn sail science to double seedy inventor Shakspeare ship small boy splendors of Mars steam yacht stern stone wall stood T. F. Rowland thermometer thing tide tremendous and unparalleled trial trip Uncle Samuel United States Navy vessel Water Commissioners water-valves wheel WHISTLE YACHT CLARA CLARITA
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16 페이지 - What a pity that this man, who was deficient neither in courage nor, we suppose, in a certain amount of intellect sufficient for all ordinary purposes, should have got himself into such a scrape merely for the sake of carrying an election over the Prince of Conti and Stanislaus ! The truth was that...
5 페이지 - ... so long as a man rides his HobbyHorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him, — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
11 페이지 - Pennsylvania, the Middle States, and those that extend westward along the lakes. The remainder I leave to you. Accept these terms, and I lift you at once from the slough of obscurity to the heights of fame. Reject them, and I leave you to chance. 'There is a tide in tho affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
40 페이지 - ... be, and was not again brought into service until the 1st day of June last. " Subsequently the new engine was thoroughly overhauled, rollers were removed, and slides substituted, and, after making several short runs, the engineer in charge closed the house, and left for the city of New York, taking with him the keys of the engine house, to report to his employers. Shortly after this, in the month of August last, the keys of the house were returned to the Secretary of the Board, by express, and...
26 페이지 - I have, indeed, commenced a poeirf about them — in humble imitation of the great engineer's favorite bard. It will be comprised in four hundred cantos, commencing thus: The D n dash-pots are gleaming like gold, And are brimming with oil as full as...
8 페이지 - and "Isherwood's Engineering Precedents;" and mingled with these, divers volumes of poetry and Belles Lettres, showing that their owner, however devoted to science, is yet addicted to occasional indulgence in "Shakspeare and the musical glasses.
8 페이지 - Washington — erected by a considerate posterity for the accommodation of the sculptor — gazed placidly at the City Hall, or seemed to smile upon the comfortable enterprise of those youthful Bohemians who thrive by polishing the boots of respectability. A scene of pastoral innocence and beauty ! Amidst that scene, and near the base of that imposing monument, there stood, on the lovely morning previously referred to, a man.
45 페이지 - ... appertaining to her machinery, except under the direction of Mr. D n. For so small a matter as a bilgepump, which I required, Mr. Rowland informed me that he would be obliged to consult Mr.
9 페이지 - My name, sir, is . My invention is a steam cut-off for application to marine engines." " Sir," said the great man, " you have come to the right shop. My foot is on my native heath, and my name is I) n." The seedy inventor bowed, and deposited his roll of paper upon the table. "Sit, my friend...
15 페이지 - It was, nevertheless, an achievement of magnitude and of difficulty. Prejudice, of deep root and of long continuance, opposed me at the outset. Conventionality, embodied in the form of a naval official, frowned darkly upon the champion of progress, your humble friend. Old ideas of economy — the crude notions of our antiquated forefathers — arose before me, like battle lines in Parisian streets, before the footsteps of Kevolntion.