 | 1871 - 464 էջ
...instructors in mechanics. Mr. Zerah Colburn was a man whom the profession could ill afford to lose. His thoroughly practical education in the workshop,...and inborn engineering ideas, combined to give him the distinction of being the best general writer in the profession. ME. SAMUEL DOBSON was the son of... | |
 | John Mortimer - 2005 - 520 էջ
...insanity. Holley also described Zerah Colburn as a man Who the profession could ill afford to lose. His thoroughly practical education in the workshop,...deny him - the best general writer in his profession. something more devious? Perhaps he thought it shed new light on Colburn's true character. But even... | |
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Who the profession could ill afford to lose. His thoroughly practical education in the workshop, his extended observation of engineering works, his intimate acquaintance with professional literature, his remarkable quickness of comprehension, his more... 