James WattDoubleday, Page, 1905 - 241 pages |
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... ment of mechanical force known to man . The fond mother having lost several of her children born previously was intensely solicitous in her care of James , who was so delicate that regular attendance at school was impossible . The ...
... ment of mechanical force known to man . The fond mother having lost several of her children born previously was intensely solicitous in her care of James , who was so delicate that regular attendance at school was impossible . The ...
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... ment . " Scott has left on record that he never had met and conversed with a man who could not tell him something he did not know . Watt seems to have resembled Sir Walter , " who spoke to every man he " met as if he were a brother ...
... ment . " Scott has left on record that he never had met and conversed with a man who could not tell him something he did not know . Watt seems to have resembled Sir Walter , " who spoke to every man he " met as if he were a brother ...
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... ment of powers which otherwise would probably lie dormant . Scotch boy as Watt was to the core , with the lowland broad , soft accent , and ignorant of foreign literature , it is very certain that he then found support in the lessons ...
... ment of powers which otherwise would probably lie dormant . Scotch boy as Watt was to the core , with the lowland broad , soft accent , and ignorant of foreign literature , it is very certain that he then found support in the lessons ...
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... ment , to give him the " stout heart for the stye brae , ' when manhood arrived . His mother had planted deep in him , and nurtured , precious seed from her Celtic garden , which was sure to grow and bear good fruit . " " We are often ...
... ment , to give him the " stout heart for the stye brae , ' when manhood arrived . His mother had planted deep in him , and nurtured , precious seed from her Celtic garden , which was sure to grow and bear good fruit . " " We are often ...
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... . He writes : You cannot conceive how mortified I am with this disappoint- ment . It is a damned thing for a man to have his all hanging by a single string . If I had wherewithal to pay the PARTNERSHIP WITH ROEBUCK 79.
... . He writes : You cannot conceive how mortified I am with this disappoint- ment . It is a damned thing for a man to have his all hanging by a single string . If I had wherewithal to pay the PARTNERSHIP WITH ROEBUCK 79.
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Page 237 - ... which wait for no man, and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements...
Page 239 - Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences...
Page 235 - ... instructive in no ordinary degree ; but it was, if possible, still more pleasing than wise, and had all the charms of familiarity, with all the substantial treasures of knowledge. No man could be more social in his spirit, less assuming or fastidious in his manners, or more kind and indulgent towards all who approached him. He rather liked to talk, at least in his latter years ; but though he took a considerable share of the conversation, he rarely suggested the topics on which it was to turn,...
Page 220 - Watt, who directing the force of an original genius early exercised in philosophic research to the improvement of the steam-engine, enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science, and the real benefactors of the world.
Page 236 - ... observations, and set off to the greatest advantage the pleasant anecdotes which he delivered with the same grave brow and the same calm smile playing soberly on his lips.
Page 115 - An' now the main eccentrics start their quarrel on the sheaves : Her time, her own appointed time, the rocking linkhead bides, Till — hear that note? — the rod's return whings glimmerin' through the guides. They're all awa' ! True beat, full power, the clangin' chorus goes Clear to the tunnel where they sit, my purrin
Page 237 - ... his happiest days. His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation, never more delightful or more instructive, than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn, 1817. Indeed, it was after that time that he applied himself, with all the ardour of early life, to the invention of a machine for mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary, and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances, as the productions...
Page 227 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in. the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 238 - ... the world the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.
Page 56 - I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirtyfive or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump.