"Northwester" Quotes from Famous Books
... Mathematics are powerless to predict to us with accuracy the manner in which the floating breakwaters will behave, but experiment remains. Let the promoter of the project, then, be given authority to inclose a few hundred meters, and if, as we suppose, the breakwaters shall remain immovable in a northwester, a maritime revolution will have been brought ... — Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 • Various |