| Lyman Horace Weeks - 1904 - 240 halaman
...time. Roger Bacon, in the thirteenth century, looking into the distant future, made this prediction : "It will be possible to construct chariots so that...without animals they may be moved with incalculable speed." It was several hundred years before men were ready to give practical attention to this idea,... | |
| Waldemar Kaempffert - 1924 - 586 halaman
...Yet did he not foresee the supremacy of electric traction ? I CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF THE AUTOMOBILE T will be possible to construct chariots so that without animals they may be moved with incalculable speed." This prediction, 500 years before Watt's invention of the steam-engine, was made by Roger Bacon,... | |
| Waldemar Kaempffert - 1924 - 608 halaman
...Yet did he not foresee the supremacy of electric traction ? I CHAPTER IV THE RISE OF THE AUTOMOBILE T will be possible to construct chariots so that without animals they may be moved with incalculable speed." This prediction, 500 years before Watt's invention of the steam-engine, was made by Roger Bacon,... | |
| Frederic William Wile - 1928 - 618 halaman
...seemed to visualize the automobile. Roger Bacon, the English philosopher and man of letters, said that "it will be possible to construct chariots so that...without animals they may be moved with incalculable speed." Even the Grecian mythologists speculated on unknown mystic forces which would carry men through... | |
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