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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 which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down... "
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the ... - Page 91
by John Burke - 1832
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A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ...

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...and perfected; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set these down...
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The London Magazine, Volume 5

1822 - 734 pages
...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 of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set these down...
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 2

Science - 1825 - 616 pages
...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 Inventions...and perfected, (which my former notes being lost,) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to net these down...
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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines, and of ..., Volume 1

Robert Stuart - Inventors - 1829 - 550 pages
...alludes as coataining the " heads" of his experiments, was published in 1663, under the title of " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions,...of a powerful friend, endeavoured, now in the year 1655, to set down in such a way, as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice." The...
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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines: And of ..., Volume 1

Robert Stuart - Inventors - 1829 - 510 pages
...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 inventions,...and perfected, which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured, now in the year 1655, to set down in such...
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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 7

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...and perfected, which, (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now to set these down in such a way as may...
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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 7

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 set these down in such a way as may...
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Treatise on the Steam Engine

James Renwick - Technology & Engineering - 1839 - 374 pages
...but shall content ourselves with quoting his own words. They are to be found in a little treatise, entitled " A century of the names and scantlings of...and perfected, which, my former notes being lost, I have at the instance of a powerful friend endeavoured, now in the year 1655, to set down in such,...
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Historical Eloge of James Watt

François Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...edition of his work. The full title of the Marquis of Worcester's little book is as follows : — " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...and perfected, which (my former Notes being lost,) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now, in the Year 1655, to set these down...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - Steam-engines - 1841 - 422 pages
...work in which he published a list of one hundred of his mechanical inventions, under the title of " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set these down...
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