Reports, Том 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812 |
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Стр. xviii - Calder navigable; a work that required great skill and judgment, owing to the very impetuous floods in that river ; he planned and attended the execution of the great canal in Scotland, for conveying the trade of the country either to the Atlantic or German Ocean; and having brought it...
Стр. xvi - I could not but view his works with astonishment ; he forged his iron and steel, and melted his metal ; he had tools of every sort, for working in wood, ivory, and metals. He had made a lathe, by which he had cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing little known at that day, and which I believe was the invention of Mr.
Стр. iv - ... than to be plagued with the miserable little politics of corporate towns, and the wages of their extravagant workmen. This produced a new demand, not thought of till then in this country — internal navigation. To make communications from factory to factory and from warehouses to harbours, as well as to carry raw materials to and from such establishments, became absolutely necessary.
Стр. iii - Everything which contributes to the comfort, the beauty, and the prosperity of a country, moved forward in improvement so rapidly and so obviously as to mark that period with particular distinction.
Стр. xxii - Plymouth is about 14 miles. They are almost in the line which joins the Start and the Lizard points; and as they lie nearly in the direction of vessels coasting up and down the channel, they were unavoidably, before the establishment of a lighthouse there, very dangerous, and often fatal to ships.
Стр. xviii - On opening the great arch at London bridge, by throwing two arches into one, and the removal of a large pier, the excavation around and underneath the sterlings of that pier was so considerable as to put the adjoining piers...
Стр. xxiv - An experimental examination of the quantity and proportion of mechanic power necessary to be employed in giving different degrees of velocity to heavy bodies from a state of rest.
Стр. xv - ... like a windmill ; another time, he attended fome men fixing a pump at a neighbouring village, and obferving them cut off a piece of bored pipe, he was fo lucky...
Стр. iv - Ihips of war defy the combined power of all other maritime nations. It was about the fame period, that manufactures were extended on a new plan, by the enterprize, the capital, and, above all, by the fcience of men of deep knowledge and perfevering induflry engaged in them.
Стр. vi - They often met accidentally, prior to that union, in the Houses of Parliament, and in Courts of Justice, each maintaining the propriety of his own designs, without knowing much of each other. It was, however, proposed by one gentleman, to Mr. Smeaton, that such a state of the profession, then crude and in its infancy, was improper, and that it would be well if some sort of occasional meeting in a friendly way, was to be held, where they might shake hands together, and be personally known to one another...