 I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to me the principles of an invention which you say you have discovered respecting the moving of ships by the means of steam. It is a subject on which I have made important...  Fund Publicaion - Page 291867Full view - About this book
 | Cadwallader David Colden - Naval architects - 1817 - 371 pages
...I have received your's of the thirtieth of September, in which you propose to communicate to me 114 the principles of an invention, which you say you...the principles of mechanics my particular study," §c. I have been the more particular in noticing this letter from Lord Stanhope, because it is a document... | |
 | 1832
...received,1 says the latter, ' yours of the thirtieth of September, in whiSh you propose to inform me of the principles of an invention, which you say you have discovered, respecting the moving of ships by means of steam,' &c. But Fulton by no means limited by his active mind to a barren speculation upon... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - New York (State) - 1835
...also written about steam navigation : here it is : — " ' Sir : I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to...respecting the moving of ships by the means of steam.' " " Then, Uncle Philip, those people are certainly wrong who say that Mr. Fulton had not thought of... | |
 | Eliakim Littell - 1838
...proved by the following passage of a letter to him from Lord Stanhope, of date October 7, 1793: — "Sir, I have received yours of the 30th September,...have discovered, respecting the moving of ships by means of stearn. I shall be glad to receive, &c." But although this letter shows Fulton to have formed... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 269 pages
...October, at Holdsworthy, Devon, and is as follows : " SIR : — I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to...the principles of mechanics my particular study," etc. The history of the discovery of the power of steam, and of its application to engines which have... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Steam-navigation - 1881 - 271 pages
...Holdsworthy, Devon, October 7, 1793, in which he says, — " SIB, — I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to...the principles of mechanics my particular study," etc. for pumping water from mines, saw how those difficulties could be overcome. One day David Wilkinson,... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Law - 1881 - 271 pages
...Holdsworthy, Devon, October 7, 1793, in which he says, — " SIR, — I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to me the principles of aa invention which you say you have discovered respecting the moving of ships by the means of steam.... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 687 pages
...may be inferred from the reply, and which is as follows : " Sir, I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to...have discovered, respecting the moving of ships by steam. I shall be glad to receive the communication which you intend, as I have made the principles... | |
 | George Henry Preble, John Lipton Lochhead - Steam-navigation - 1883 - 484 pages
...Holdsworth, Devon, October 7, 1793, in which he says, — " SIR, — I have received yours of the 30th of September, in which you propose to communicate to me the principles of au invention which you say you have discovered respecting the moving of ships by the means of steam.... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Steam-navigation - 1886 - 507 pages
...received yours of the 3Oth of September, in which you propose to communicate to me the principles ,jef an invention which you say you have discovered, respecting the moving of ships by means of steam. It is a subject on which I have made important discoveries. I shall be glad to receive... | |
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