James WattDoubleday, Page, 1905 - 241 pages |
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... cylinders of tin plate , but being slightly and inaccurately made , it failed to work satisfactorily . Nothing more was heard of it . Robison soon thereafter left Glasgow . The demon Steam con- tinued to haunt Watt . He , who up to this ...
... cylinders of tin plate , but being slightly and inaccurately made , it failed to work satisfactorily . Nothing more was heard of it . Robison soon thereafter left Glasgow . The demon Steam con- tinued to haunt Watt . He , who up to this ...
Page 54
... cylinder , and only one - fifth performed service by acting on the piston . Prevent this , and the power of the giant is increased fourfold . Here was the prize to contend for . Win this and the campaign is won . First then , what ...
... cylinder , and only one - fifth performed service by acting on the piston . Prevent this , and the power of the giant is increased fourfold . Here was the prize to contend for . Win this and the campaign is won . First then , what ...
Page 55
... cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it , and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder . I then saw that I must get rid of the con- densed steam and injection - water if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine ...
... cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it , and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder . I then saw that I must get rid of the con- densed steam and injection - water if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine ...
Page 57
... cylinder and con- denses it in a separate vessel , leaving the cylinder hot . He closes the cylinder top and sends a circular piston ( hitherto all had been square ) through it , and closely stuffs it around to prevent escape of steam ...
... cylinder and con- denses it in a separate vessel , leaving the cylinder hot . He closes the cylinder top and sends a circular piston ( hitherto all had been square ) through it , and closely stuffs it around to prevent escape of steam ...
Page 62
... cylinder and its piston that gave Watt the chief trouble . No wonder the cylinder leaked . It had to be hammered into something like true lines , for at that day so back- ward was the art that not even the whole collective mechanical ...
... cylinder and its piston that gave Watt the chief trouble . No wonder the cylinder leaked . It had to be hammered into something like true lines , for at that day so back- ward was the art that not even the whole collective mechanical ...
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Page 241 - ... 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 224 - 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 BORN AT GREENOCK MDCCXXXVI DIED AT HEATHFIELD IN STAFFORDSHIRE MDCCCXIX NOTES (1) MS.
Page 239 - ... 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 241 - ... 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 231 - 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 60 - 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.
Page 46 - Mr. Watt. I saw a workman, and expected no more ; but was surprised to find a philosopher, as young as myself, and always ready to instruct me. I had the vanity to think myself a pretty good proficient in my favourite study, and was rather mortified at finding Mr. Watt so much my superior.