Capitolo 23
from modern books. The newest form however (with the flowing vapor
valve) me learnt from a motor of 6-horse to the factory of beer of Bawtrey (in that
Mr Keeling the father of my schoolmate had acquired a
association). I frequently went to look at this motor and one
occasion had the extreme happiness to examine some of its parts when
it was open for shelters.
"Of bad duration my education was advancing to Playford. The first one
registers, I believe, what I have of my attention to the mechanics there is
the plan of a threshing-car that I drew. But I was acquiring
precious information of some the son-in-laws from the Encyclopaedia Londinensis,
a job that without being tall in some respect it is more anymore one of the
generally profit that I have seen. But I remember more anymore well one of the
important footsteps that me I have ever done. I had tried experiments with the
object-glass of a work-glass and you/he/she was greatly surprised to the
aspect of the images of objects seen through the glass under
different conditions. From these things my thoughts were turned to
accurate optics, and I read with care the Lectures of Rutherford that mine
uncle possessed. The acquisition of an accurate knowledge of the
effect of optic constructions was one of the most fascinating
attainments which I have ever reached. You crave before I went to the university me
understands the action of the lenses of a best telescope that more
optic. I also read with the great zeal the Dictionary of Nicholson of
Chemistry, and every now and then it made chemical experiments of a
inexpensive kind: indeed I grew so affectionate of this subject that there was
some thought about putting to make me apprenticeship to a chemist. I also frequented
observing and it made a tolerable examination and map of the farm of my uncle.
"To school I was following with success, and he distinguished
particularly from my memory. It was once the custom for every boy for week
to repeat a number of lines of Latin or Greek poetry the number,
depending a lot on his own choice. I determined on to repeat 100