 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pagine
...Congreve rocket; in short it required the power of two powerful men to work the machine at a sloiy rate only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity,...what I thought a most valuable property, by a patent in April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove, and you will guess... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1831 - 370 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a...thought a most valuable property by a patent, 4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 436 pagine
...of two powerful men to work the machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required,...thought a most valuable property by a patent, 4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most valuable... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most valuable... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most valuable... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1832 - 290 pagine
...short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only fora short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that...secured what I thought a most valuable property by a patent,'4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove; and... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner, George Richardson Porter - 1832 - 298 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. jConceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 590 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a...thought a most valuable property, by a patent, 4th of April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove; and you will guess... | |
 | 1835 - 492 pagine
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time." This, as we have seen, was in 1785: he also applied his talents to effecting the substitution of machinery... | |
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The warp was placed perpendicularly ; the reed fell with a force of at least half a hundred weight ; and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to... 
