 | Edward Morris - Steam-navigation - 1844 - 228 pages
...in steam navigation! "How many noblemen, gentlemen, and engineers," said he to Mr. Bell in a letter, "have puzzled their brains, and spent their thousands of pounds, and none of all these, nor yourself, have been able to bring the power of steam in navigation to a successful issue." Mr. Watt was not singular... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - Biography - 1852 - 338 pages
...navigation. In a letter addressed to Mr Bell, he said, " How many noblemen, gentlemen, and engineers, have puzzled their brains, and spent their thousands of pounds, and none of all these, nor yourself, have been able to bring the power of steam, in navigation, to a successful issue." The various attempts... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - History - 1865 - 560 pages
...encouragement to proceed with his design. " How many noblemen, gentlemen, and engineers," he wrote to Bell, " have puzzled their brains, and spent their thousands of pounds, and none of these, nor yourself, rave been able to bring tbc power of steam in navigation to a successful issue."... | |
 | John W. Grant - Steam engineering - 1917 - 256 pages
...encouragement to proceed with his design. " How many noblemen, gentlemen, and engineers," wrote Watt to Bell, " have puzzled their brains and spent their thousands of pounds, and none of these, nor yourself, have been able to bring the power of steam in navigation to a successful issue."... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond - Commerce - 1926 - 306 pages
...consulted him in 1801 on this subject. " How many noblemen, gentlemen, and engineers," was the answer, " have puzzled their brains, and spent their thousands of pounds, and none of these, nor yourself, have been able to bring the power of steam in navigation to a successful issue."... | |
 | Carlo M. Cipolla - Business & Economics - 2006 - 346 pages
...consulted him in 1801 on this subject. " How many noblemen, gentlemen, and engineers," was the answer, " have puzzled their brains, and spent their thousands of pounds, and none of these, nor yourself, have been able to bring the power of steam in navigation to a successful issue."... | |
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He had a practical enough turn of mind to analyse the causes of the failures and to benefit from them. Even James Watt, who knew more about the steam engine than anyone, was not optimistic. He said to Henry Bell: How many noblemen, gentlemen and engineers... 