 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...— This dog before rescued a child, six years old, out of the river. OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OP SUCH INVENTIONS, As at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...machine the steam engine, had gone through several editions unknown to Lord Orford. The first was " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present 1 can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 1824 - 408 pages
...with much truth " an amazing piece of folly," was published by the Marquis himself, under the title of " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, (my former notes being lost,) 1663."* It had two dedications : the first to King Charles II. ; and... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 616 pages
...II. is by far the most renowned. A book was published by the Marquis himself in 1663, under the title of " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, (which my former notes being lost,) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Inventors - 1829 - 510 pages
...which he alludes as containing the " heads" of his experiments, was published in 1663, under the title of "A century of the names and scantlings of such...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured, now in... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 1829 - 372 pages
...with much truth " an amazing piece of folly," was published by the Marquis himself, under the title of " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, (my former notes being lost,) 1663."* It had two dedications : the first to King Charles II. ; and... | |
 | John Burke - Baronetage - 1832 - 712 pages
...was privy to the negotiation. The Marquess of Worcester left behind him a literary work, entitled " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions,...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) 1 have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 294 pages
...; and in 1663, published in London a syllabus of the results of his labours, with this title — " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which, (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now to... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 286 pages
...results of his labours, with this title — " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Invention as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which, (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now to... | |
 | Hugo Reid - Steam-engines - 1838 - 234 pages
...WORCESTER. 1 663. 180. Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, published, in 1663, a small work, entitled, "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...I can call to Mind, to have Tried and Perfected," &c. In this work, (in which, he says, the descriptions are " in such a way as may sufficiently instruct... | |
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A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected... 
