Automata Old and NewImprinted at the Chiswick Press, 1893 - 117 páginas |
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... ingenious of all , and it is one that those who were present when Brother Manning gave us his discourse on Robert - Houdin have already seen , I mean the little figure whose head cannot be severed from his body no matter how many times ...
... ingenious of all , and it is one that those who were present when Brother Manning gave us his discourse on Robert - Houdin have already seen , I mean the little figure whose head cannot be severed from his body no matter how many times ...
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Conrad William Cooke. Scale of feel Fig . 24 . The real story of this most ingenious and suc- cessful.
Conrad William Cooke. Scale of feel Fig . 24 . The real story of this most ingenious and suc- cessful.
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Conrad William Cooke. The real story of this most ingenious and suc- cessful scientific fraud is so interesting that I must tell it here , although it puts for ever Baron von Kempelen's chess - player outside the circle of true automata ...
Conrad William Cooke. The real story of this most ingenious and suc- cessful scientific fraud is so interesting that I must tell it here , although it puts for ever Baron von Kempelen's chess - player outside the circle of true automata ...
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... and here I have a mechanical bear which is rather amusing , and it is ingenious because by a very simple combina- tion of clock work with cranks and strings a number of different motions is obtained ; we have the 90 AUTOMATA.
... and here I have a mechanical bear which is rather amusing , and it is ingenious because by a very simple combina- tion of clock work with cranks and strings a number of different motions is obtained ; we have the 90 AUTOMATA.
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... ingenious contrivances by which the various effects are produced , the great inventive merit consists in a design and method of manu- facture by which they can be turned out , with a profit , at so insignificant a cost . I have brought ...
... ingenious contrivances by which the various effects are produced , the great inventive merit consists in a design and method of manu- facture by which they can be turned out , with a profit , at so insignificant a cost . I have brought ...
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action Agostino Ramelli altar ancient animal Archytas Aulus Gellius auto automata AUTOMATA OLD automaton Bedford Park BERNARD QUARITCH bird bucket century CHARLES HOLME CHARLES WELSH clock constructed copies Cox's Museum curious delivered at Willis's described device digestion Ditto doll Edition limited EDWARD HERON-ALLEN exhibited figure Freemasons Friday hammermen head Hero Hero's HERON-ALLEN illustration imitated Inaugural Address inches ingenious invention JAMES ROBERTS BROWN Kempelen king legs levers limited to 133 limited to 255 Limmer's Hotel little door London mechanician Mechanick MORT THOMPSON moving Odd Volumes Oddship Bro Oddship EDWARD F Oddship GEORGE CLULOW opened pedestal performed Peter Ramus pieces of mechanism pipe Presented President produced Queen Street Ramelli Robert-Houdin rotated Secretary Sette by Bro Sette of Odd sing strings T. C. VENABLES taking office tank Tavern tion tube turns Vaucanson Vice-President W. M. THOMPSON WALFORD WALTER HAMILTON weight wheel Wilkins Willis's Rooms wonderful WYMAN Ye Sette
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Página 96 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Página 29 - Water-works. shewing the easiest waies to raise water higher then the spring ; by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, many hard labours performed and varieties of motions anu sounds produced.
Página 13 - Full twenty tripods for his hall he framed, That placed on living wheels of massy gold, (Wondrous to tell), instinct with spirit roll'd From place to place, around the blessed abodes Self-moved, obedient to the beck of Gods : For their fair handles now, o'erwrought with flowers, In moulds prepared the glowing ore he pours.
Página 104 - CLUBS," then delivered by Bro. BERNARD QUARITCH, Librarian. By Bro. WM THOMPSON, Historiographer. Presented to the Sette by His Oddship GEORGE CLULOW. Edition limited to 255 copies. 16. Codex Chiromantiae.
Página 103 - April 17th, 1885, &c. (pp. 56.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship JAMES ROBERTS BROWN. Edition limited to 133 copies. 9. Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday, July nth, 1884.
Página 49 - ... into the ear thereof, it will presently open its mouth, and resolve the question in French, Latin, Welsh, Irish, or English, in good terms, uttering it out of his mouth, and then shut it until the next question be asked.
Página 104 - DISCOURSE CONCERNING AUTOGRAPHS AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS. Spoken in valediction at Willis's Rooms, on October the 8th, 1886, by Bro. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN, (pp. 45.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship GEORGE CLULOW. Edition limited to 133 copies.
Página 96 - It gives me wonder great as my content, To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd...
Página 49 - He also quoted some evidence in support of the view that the disease occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century in Germany and more definite evidence that it occurred in Upper Italy and Hungary in 1890.
Página 99 - With a few Words on the Philanthropic Publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes by Brother CHARLES WELSH, Chapman of the Sette, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Friday, the 8th day of January, 12.