James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 45
... 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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