James WattDoubleday, Page, 1905 - 241 pages |
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... means needed for his own support . " President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect , " The best " heritage to which a man can be born is poverty . " The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the ...
... means needed for his own support . " President Garfield's verdict was to the same effect , " The best " heritage to which a man can be born is poverty . " The writer's knowledge of the usual effect of the heritage of milliondom upon the ...
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... means of judging for himself . One of the author's informants on such points more than twenty years ago , a venerable lady , then in her eighty - fifth year , was wont to speak of the worthy Bailie's wife with much characteristic ...
... means of judging for himself . One of the author's informants on such points more than twenty years ago , a venerable lady , then in her eighty - fifth year , was wont to speak of the worthy Bailie's wife with much characteristic ...
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... means exactly the same to him , and appears not less important to his family and friends than what leadership is to the public man , or in any of the pro- fessions . He has all their pride of profession , and less vanity than most . How ...
... means exactly the same to him , and appears not less important to his family and friends than what leadership is to the public man , or in any of the pro- fessions . He has all their pride of profession , and less vanity than most . How ...
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... means for tuning to any system , contrivances for improving the stops , etc. Lest we are led into a sad mistake here , let us stop a moment to consider how Watt so easily accomplished wonders , as if by inspiration . In all history it ...
... means for tuning to any system , contrivances for improving the stops , etc. Lest we are led into a sad mistake here , let us stop a moment to consider how Watt so easily accomplished wonders , as if by inspiration . In all history it ...
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... mean ? we hear the reader inquire . Let us try to explain it in simple language . Arago pronounced Black's experiment revealing it as one of the most remarkable in modern physics . Water passed as an element until Watt found it was a ...
... mean ? we hear the reader inquire . Let us try to explain it in simple language . Arago pronounced Black's experiment revealing it as one of the most remarkable in modern physics . Water passed as an element until Watt found it was a ...
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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.