James WattDoubleday, Page, 1905 - 241 pages |
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... plans of the inventor . His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind . Many of the most ...
... plans of the inventor . His problem was to teach them by example how to obtain the exact work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind . Many of the most ...
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... plan was to fit himself by a year's steady work for return to Glasgow , there to begin on his own account . He had not seven years to spend learning what he could learn in one . He would be his own master . Wise young man in this he was ...
... plan was to fit himself by a year's steady work for return to Glasgow , there to begin on his own account . He had not seven years to spend learning what he could learn in one . He would be his own master . Wise young man in this he was ...
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... plan . At last some specimens of his work having seemed very remarkable to Mr. John Morgan , mathematical in- strument maker , Finch Lane , Cornhill , he agreed to give the conquering young man the desired year's instructions for his ...
... plan . At last some specimens of his work having seemed very remarkable to Mr. John Morgan , mathematical in- strument maker , Finch Lane , Cornhill , he agreed to give the conquering young man the desired year's instructions for his ...
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... plan of life early laid down , to begin business on his own account . He thus became master before he was man . There was not in all Scotland a mathematical instrument maker , and here was one of the very best begging permission to ...
... plan of life early laid down , to begin business on his own account . He thus became master before he was man . There was not in all Scotland a mathematical instrument maker , and here was one of the very best begging permission to ...
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... plans were entertained , only to be finally rejected . At last the flash came into that teeming brain like a stroke of lightning . Eureka ! he had found it . Not one scintilla of doubt ever intruded there- after . The solution lay right ...
... plans were entertained , only to be finally rejected . At last the flash came into that teeming brain like a stroke of lightning . Eureka ! he had found it . Not one scintilla of doubt ever intruded there- after . The solution lay right ...
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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.