| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1830 - 464 pagina’s
...constructed, must in time decay (a fate to which even the great globe itself, yea all that it inherits, are exposed), still the primary cause of its motion...a longer duration than any mechanical performance bas ever before done. . " This extraordinary piece is something above the height, and about the dimensions,... | |
| Edward J. Wood - 1866 - 464 pagina’s
...for ever ; and although the metals of steel and brass of which it is constructed must in time decay, still the primary cause of its motion being constant,...longer duration than any mechanical performance has yet been made to do." This perpetual timekeeper differed but little from an ordinary clock, except... | |
| James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - 1867 - 534 pagina’s
...H. Hart, Crane Court, Fleet Street, for Mr. Cox. MDCCLXXIII." pp. 72; articles described in it, 56). constant, and the friction upon every part extremely...and dimensions of a common eight-day pendulum clock ; the case is mahogany, in the architectural style, with columns and pilasters, cornices and mouldings... | |
| James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - 1870 - 550 pagina’s
...H. Hart, Crane Court, Fleet Street, for Mr. Cox. MDCCLXXIII." pp. 72; articles described in it, 56). constant, and the friction upon every part extremely...and dimensions of a common eight-day pendulum clock ; the case is mahogany, in the architectural style, with columns and pilasters, cornices and mouldings... | |
| Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume - 2015 - 268 pagina’s
...six-page panegyric, he comes to 'Piece the Forty-Seventh — The Perpetual Motion', and announces it as follows : 'It is a mechanical and philosophical time-piece,...and dimensions of a common eight-day pendulum clock ; the case is of mahogany, in the architectural style, with columns and pilasters, cornices and mouldings,... | |
| 1828 - 460 pagina’s
...constructed, must in time decay (a fate to which even the great globe itself, yea all that it inherits, are exposed), still the primary cause of its motion...duration than any mechanical performance has ever before done. : " This extraordinary piece is something above the height, and about the dimensions,... | |
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