John Stevens : An American Record (Classic Reprint) epub
John Stevens : An American Record (Classic Reprint) epub
John Stevens : An American Record (Classic Reprint) by Archibald Douglas Turnbull
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Author: Archibald Douglas Turnbull
Page Count: 632 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781331377689
File Name: John.Stevens.An.American.Record.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
Download Link: John Stevens An American Record (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from John Stevens: An American Record Every pioneer is, by definition, the first in his field, the breaker of fresh ground, and the sower of seed. Usually, his energies are confined to one chosen field and rarely does he live to see it come to fruit. John Stevens worked in a dozen fields, not always reaching the end of the furrow but almost unfailingly foreseeing that end. Moreover, just a century ago, when he was eighty, he saw his two brightest dreams come true. The Stevens steamboats were then the fastest in this country and the great era of American railroad building was at last fairly begun. It detracts nothing from his farsightedness that it should have required this additional century for men of to-day to learn how to accomplish the engineering triumphs that he was not afraid to attempt. Behind him, he left an amazing collection of private letters, essays, drawings, patents, maps, deeds, and contemporary newspapers, all covering not only his own days but also those of his father and his grandfather. There are the letters he received, with his laborious copies of the answers returned; the letters of many members of his immediate family, addressed to himself or to one another; and the great number of documents and pamphlets which he himself had printed or which were sent to him by scores of friends among scientists, statesmen, and all other men of mind. The whole makes a story which, for one reason or another, has appeared only by widely scattered and often quite inaccurate bits in print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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John Stevens : An American Record (Classic Reprint) by Archibald Douglas Turnbull
Author: Archibald Douglas Turnbull
Page Count: 632 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781331377689
File Name: John.Stevens.An.American.Record.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
Download Link: John Stevens An American Record (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from John Stevens: An American Record Every pioneer is, by definition, the first in his field, the breaker of fresh ground, and the sower of seed. Usually, his energies are confined to one chosen field and rarely does he live to see it come to fruit. John Stevens worked in a dozen fields, not always reaching the end of the furrow but almost unfailingly foreseeing that end. Moreover, just a century ago, when he was eighty, he saw his two brightest dreams come true. The Stevens steamboats were then the fastest in this country and the great era of American railroad building was at last fairly begun. It detracts nothing from his farsightedness that it should have required this additional century for men of to-day to learn how to accomplish the engineering triumphs that he was not afraid to attempt. Behind him, he left an amazing collection of private letters, essays, drawings, patents, maps, deeds, and contemporary newspapers, all covering not only his own days but also those of his father and his grandfather. There are the letters he received, with his laborious copies of the answers returned; the letters of many members of his immediate family, addressed to himself or to one another; and the great number of documents and pamphlets which he himself had printed or which were sent to him by scores of friends among scientists, statesmen, and all other men of mind. The whole makes a story which, for one reason or another, has appeared only by widely scattered and often quite inaccurate bits in print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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