Quote#War
And Mr. Triewald further says, that in the Summer of the Year 1742,…
Quote byStephen Hales · 1677–1761
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Preface.
English (original)
And Mr. Triewald further says, that in the Summer of the Year 1742, be bad sent one of his Engines, calculated for a Sixty Gun Man of War, to France; which being approved of by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, the King of France has ordered all the Men of War to be furnished with the like Ventilators.
— Stephen Hales
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