There is not an engineer in the world who will not admit that the marvellous accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians in building the ...
Article : 356 wordsIf the moon had never been born, Professor W. H. Pickering points out the highest intelligence on earth would not have advanced beyond ...
Article : 1,055 wordsAt last and at last John, the Inventor received his letters-patent, and simultaneously the earth stopped turning a time or two. John swam ...
Article : 1,066 words"How do you do, Mr. Candlish?" said the visitor with the white bow necktie. "You are well, I trust?" "Jest about middlin," replied the ...
Article : 499 wordsThat nasty deposit which is to be found in most kettles, commonly called fur, is in reality nothing more or less than the lime contained in the ...
Article : 1,163 wordsThere are few questions of natural history more interesting or on which imagination allows itself more faraway flights than the ages of trees. ...
Article : 1,103 wordsClever literary impostors who have deceived the world are numerous. Gamelli Carrieri, a Neapolitan gentleman and scholar, while confined to ...
Article : 323 wordsThat wonderful substance radium is still puzzling the scientists. The latest conundrum is--"Where does it come from?" Professor Joly has ...
Article : 188 words£800, the price paid by Mr. Quaritch, at Sotheby's, for a copy of the 1609 edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, seems an enormous sum to ...
Article : 211 wordsThe aristocracy on an average live twenty-five years longer than the working classes. The average walking pace of a ...
Article : 478 wordsApropos of the mushroom growth of new towns on the western frontier a locomotive engineer relates the following to the "Minneapolis Journal" ...
Article : 165 wordsA Scotch tourist, wandering about the streets of Paris, at some distance from his hotel, found himself in a strange neighbourhood, and, to make ...
Article : 418 wordsA very well-known leader in former days of the North-Eastern Circuit used to tell this story against himself. He was instructed for the ...
Article : 275 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: