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A History of the County of Essex
… and perhaps from 1811 or 1812, it had an auxilliary steam-engine, the earliest recorded for an Essex mill. 219 The …
Survey of London
… 190817. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, K.C.B., O.M., engineer and scientist, 191831. No. 2 No. 2, like its eastern …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 23 Other occupations included a carpenter with a sawing engine in 1861 and a coach builder in 1871. The railway …
The Barrington Papers
… with Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clark as principal Engineer and Colonel James Wolfe as Quarter-Master-General. …
The Barrington Papers
… shall be possessed of a Post on shore, and the Chief Engineer marked out an entrenchment to secure the Prisoners, …
Old and New London
… of Inventions," if not as the inventor of the steam-engine. He lived at Vauxhall for some years after the … the army and navy. Here he set up his "water-commanding engine," which was naturally a great curiosity in those days, … beneficial to all mankind as this my watercommanding engine," is one of the most touching evidences at once of his …
Survey of London
… 300,000. 174 John Rennie (17611821), 103 who was appointed engineer, prepared plans for a stone bridge with 11 arches, … 178 brother of Jeremy Bentham, and a naval architect and engineer of great experience. As Civil Architect and Engineer of the Navy, Sir Samuel had on two recent occasions …