. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . n his own illustrative diagrams. Theinvention of the steam-engine has been claimed by a Spaniard forone Blasco de Garay, who is stated to have made a successful ex-periment in steam-navigation in the harbour of Barcelona as earlyas the year 1543, and to have been rewarded by Philip II. for hisinvention with the gift of two hundred thousand maravedis—a state-ment which smacks too much of the improbable to be generallyreceived. Arago, the distinguished French philosopher, makes amuch more
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . n his own illustrative diagrams. Theinvention of the steam-engine has been claimed by a Spaniard forone Blasco de Garay, who is stated to have made a successful ex-periment in steam-navigation in the harbour of Barcelona as earlyas the year 1543, and to have been rewarded by Philip II. for hisinvention with the gift of two hundred thousand maravedis—a state-ment which smacks too much of the improbable to be generallyreceived. Arago, the distinguished French philosopher, makes amuch more modest claim on behalf of Solomon de Cans, who, by awork which he published in Frankfort in 1615, shows that he wasat least aware of the expansive force of steam, and suggests a modeof applying it to the propulsion of a column of water to a greatheight. Some years after the appearance of De Causs book anItalian engineer, named Branca, published a work, in which hepointed out several novel applications to which steam-power mightbe directed. The first Englishman who turned his attention to >»>«.
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