 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 560 pàgines
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Eobert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washinghouse. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1874 - 460 pàgines
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Eobert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte-street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time,... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pàgines
...series of modifications which at last gave to the world the modern type of steam-engine. He says : ' " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 238 pàgines
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 708 pàgines
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1881 - 846 pàgines
...the steam-engine suddenly burst upon him ! ' I had gone,' he saya, ' to take a walk on a fine Sahbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte-street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time,... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1882 - 504 pàgines
...afternoon across the green of Glasgow the means of effecting it burst on him. " I had gone," he says, " to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had...green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1885 - 320 pàgines
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after: — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | Scotsmen - 1885 - 152 pàgines
...afternoon he was taking a walk on the green, then a quiet grassy meadow used as a bleaching ground. " I had entered the green by the gate at the foot of the street and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time and had... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1886 - 336 pàgines
...the idea of the improvement of the steam-engine suddenly burst upon him ! " I had gone," he says, " to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had...Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far... | |
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Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication... 
