 | Frank William Taussig - 1915 - 176 pages
...inventions, good and bad, was unquestionably sincere, though doubtless exuberant of emphasis, when he wrote: "Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages that my country will draw from the invention" (of the steamboat). Edison... | |
 | Seymour Dunbar - 1915 - 456 pages
...remarks. This is the way in which ignorant men compliment what they call philosophers and projectors. Although the prospect of personal emolument has been...yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage my country will derive from the invention."2 The Clermont, as she appeared... | |
 | John Randolph Spears - 1915 - 416 pages
...eyes. For more than twenty years he had hoped against hope, and now he saw the fruition of his work. "Although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me," he wrote to an intimate friend, "yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages... | |
 | Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Charles Manfred Thompson - 1916 - 904 pages
...answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandize on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying...treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; and, altho the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more... | |
 | Frank Puterbaugh Bachman - 1918 - 284 pages
...answers my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to our countrymen; and although the prospect of personal gain has been some inducement to me, yet I feel... | |
 | Harry Bradley Smith - 1923 - 332 pages
...the Hudson River. Fulton himself said of his work: "It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi and Missouri and other...their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen." Eli Whitney's cotton gin. — Eli Whitney, a very enterprising New England lad, turned his genius toward... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1923 - 328 pages
...about, for he said: "It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers •which are now...their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen; .... I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantages that my country will draw... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1923 - 328 pages
...about, for he said: "It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchants on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers which are now laying open their treasures to the enter- • prise of our countrymen; . . . . I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense... | |
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It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri, and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen ; and although the prospect of personal emolument has been... 
