 | Science - 1892 - 930 pages
...blind, and was shown his " invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden Kalender, which instructed him all by feeling, and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc. He has newly buried £200 worth of music-books six feet under ground, being, as he said, love-songs,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 418 pages
...Hammersmith, to visit Sir Samuel Morland, who was entirely blind; a very mortifying sight. He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious;...other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription,... | |
 | Geraldine Edith Mitton, Cunningham Geikie - Fulham (England) - 1903 - 142 pages
...sight. He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden Kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling, and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc." Sir Samuel was the inventor of the speakingtrumpet, and also greatly improved the capstan and... | |
 | John Evelyn, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Great Britain - 1906 - 532 pages
...sight. He shew'd us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden kalender, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty...inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames neere it a most perfect and pure water. He had newly buried ^200 worth of music books six feet under... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 846 pages
...sight. He shew'd us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden Kalender, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty...he had erected that serves water to his garden, and nj passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames neere it a most perfect... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 538 pages
...sight. He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious ; also his wooden kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription,... | |
 | John Evelyn - Europe - 1901 - 392 pages
...Hammersmith, to visit Sir Samuel Morland, who was entirely blind; a very mortifying sight. He showed us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious;...other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc., and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription,... | |
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Kalender, which instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty and useful inventions of mills, pumps, &c. and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames... 
