John Rennie, 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great EngineerManchester University Press, 1963 - 149 էջ |
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... practical uses of everyday business . Science so applied he called Mechanical Philosophy , 4o and he was the author of several books incorporating this term in their titles . At the university Rennie was , we are told , an industrious ...
... practical uses of everyday business . Science so applied he called Mechanical Philosophy , 4o and he was the author of several books incorporating this term in their titles . At the university Rennie was , we are told , an industrious ...
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... practical value . Perhaps Telford may be taken as typical of this school . A self - made man who had risen the hard way , shrewd and penetrating in his judgements , mechanically minded with a strong bent for practical construc- tion ...
... practical value . Perhaps Telford may be taken as typical of this school . A self - made man who had risen the hard way , shrewd and penetrating in his judgements , mechanically minded with a strong bent for practical construc- tion ...
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... practical design . He was one of the very first to bridge the gap between the schoolman and the practical engineer , and to apply to his constructions the theory he had learned at the university , from some of the best minds of his day ...
... practical design . He was one of the very first to bridge the gap between the schoolman and the practical engineer , and to apply to his constructions the theory he had learned at the university , from some of the best minds of his day ...
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