James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... days . 66 The good judgment which characterised the Watts for three generations is nowhere more clearly shown than in the lady James Watt's father courted and finally succeeded in securing for his wife . She is described as a ...
... days . 66 The good judgment which characterised the Watts for three generations is nowhere more clearly shown than in the lady James Watt's father courted and finally succeeded in securing for his wife . She is described as a ...
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... Watt family for generations steadily improved and developed . A great step upward was made the day Agnes Muirhead was captured . We are liable to forget how little of the original strain of an old family remains in after days . We ...
... Watt family for generations steadily improved and developed . A great step upward was made the day Agnes Muirhead was captured . We are liable to forget how little of the original strain of an old family remains in after days . We ...
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Andrew Carnegie. We have another story of Watt's childhood that proclaims the coming ... days during which he was confined to the house by ill health . It is at this stage the steam and kettle story takes its rise . Mrs. Campbell , Watt's ...
Andrew Carnegie. We have another story of Watt's childhood that proclaims the coming ... days during which he was confined to the house by ill health . It is at this stage the steam and kettle story takes its rise . Mrs. Campbell , Watt's ...
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... day impossible to find men capable of executing the 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 ...
... day impossible to find men capable of executing the 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 ...
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... days . Indefatigable in habits of observation and research , and devoted to the lonely hills , he extended his knowl- edge by long excursions , adding to his botanical and mineral treasures . Freely entering the cottages of the people ...
... days . Indefatigable in habits of observation and research , and devoted to the lonely hills , he extended his knowl- edge by long excursions , adding to his botanical and mineral treasures . Freely entering the cottages of the people ...
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