Part 7 (1/2)

DAVID RAMSEY

associated with Tho, in 1618, was David Rae of the Bed Chaland, and afterwards was Groom of the Privy Chaain a partner in the grant of a patent for ”a farre rayne, and alsoe for the carrying of coaches, carts, drayes, and other things goeing on wheels, than ever yet was used and discovered” This may have been a manually or a steam propelled vehicle It is most reasonable to suppose that it was the former

JOHANN HAUTSCH

Born in 1595 Died in 1670

Hautsch was a notedin the construction of road vehicles, he built a e for use on coe was successfully run in Nurereat deal of attention It was propelled by a train of gears that turned the axle, being operated by two men who, secreted in the interior of the body, worked cranks The finish of the body of this coach was very elaborate, being heavily carved and having fashi+oned in front the figure of a dragon, arranged to roll its eyes and spout steam and water, in order to terrify the populace and clear the way

On each side of the body were carved angels holding trumpets, which were constantly blown, the precursors, perhaps, of the autoone as rapidly as one thousand paces an hour One of the carriages which he built was sold to the Crown Prince of Sweden, and another to the King of Denmark Not much more is known of the Hautsch vehicles, but it is a matter of record that the inventor was preceded by one whose name is unknown, but who ran a coach, mechanically propelled so

CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS

Born at The Hague, Holland, April 14, 1629 Died at The Hague, June 8, 1695

Huygens received a good education, and at early age showed a singular aptitude for e he prepared papers on ave him pre-eminent distinction He became noted as a physicist, astronomer and mathematician

He devoted some time to the consideration of improvements in road vehicular travel

STEPHEN FARFLUER

Born in 1663

Farfluer was a contemporary of Johann Hautsch, and was a skillful , Gerible vehicle propelled by uished fro calculated only for one person Being crippled, Farfluer used the wagon as his onlyabout alone It had hand cranks that drove the single front wheel by gears

FERNANDO VERBIEST

Born near Courtrai, Belgium, 1623 Died in China in 1688

Verbiest became a Jesuitto China he acquired a thorough knowledge of the language of that country, where he spent the greater part of his life Under his Chinese naical works in Chinese He was appointed astronomer at the Pekin observatory, undertook the reformation of the Chinese calendar, superintended the cannon foundries, and was a great favorite of the Emperor

About 1655 he e This is described in the English edition of Huc's Christianity in China, in Muirhead's Life of James Watt, and in the Astronomia Europia, a work that is attributed to Verbiest, but was probably compiled from his works by another Jesuit priest and was published in Europe in 1689 The Verbiest e, on which an aeolipile wascoals beneath it A jet of steaed upon the vanes of a wheel on a vertical axle, the lower end of the spindle being geared to the front axle An additional wheel, larger than the supporting wheels, was mounted on an adjustable ar in a circular path Another orifice in the aeolipile was fitted with a reed, so that the stea of a bird

ISAAC NEWTON

Born at Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshi+re, England, Deceton, March 20, 1727

Isaac Newton, who becareatest mathematicians that the world ever kneas the son of a fare, and in his early youth he an original investigations to discover new reat achieveravitation, but his genius was active in other directions, as the investigation of the nature of light, the construction of improved telescopes, and so on He was a Member of Parliament in 1689 and 1701, and master of the mint, a lucrative position, from 1696 until the time of his death In 1671 he was elected a member of the Royal Society, and was annually chosen to be its president, frolishmen to conceive the idea of the propulsion of vehicles by the power of stea up for consideration Hero's hollow ball filled ater froenerated by the outward application of heat, he added these conclusions: ”We have a more sensible effect of the elasticity of vapors if the hole be er and stopped, and then the ball be laid upon the fire till the water boils violently; after this, if the ball be set upon little wheels, so as to move easily upon a horizontal plane, and the hole be opened, the vapors will rush out violently one way, and the wheels and the ball at the same time will be carried the contrary way” Beyond this philosophical suggestion, however, Newton never went The steainative creation, by writer or artist, based upon the above proposition

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