James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 46
... difficulties , disappointments , and successes , as one after the other obstacles were surmounted , is not within the scope of this volume , these being all easily accessible to the student , but the general reader may be interested in ...
... difficulties , disappointments , and successes , as one after the other obstacles were surmounted , is not within the scope of this volume , these being all easily accessible to the student , but the general reader may be interested in ...
Page 47
... difficulty here was serious . Books were searched in vain . No one had touched it . A course of independent experiments was essential , and upon this he entered as usual , deter- mined to find truth at the bottom of the well and to get ...
... difficulty here was serious . Books were searched in vain . No one had touched it . A course of independent experiments was essential , and upon this he entered as usual , deter- mined to find truth at the bottom of the well and to get ...
Page 60
... difficulty of finding mechanics capa- ble of carrying out his designs . The only available men were blacksmiths and tinsmiths , and these were most clumsy workmen , even in their own crafts . Were Watt to revisit the earth to - day , he ...
... difficulty of finding mechanics capa- ble of carrying out his designs . The only available men were blacksmiths and tinsmiths , and these were most clumsy workmen , even in their own crafts . Were Watt to revisit the earth to - day , he ...
Page 63
... difficulty was not so easily indicated . Watt having closed the top of the cylinder to save steam , was debarred from using water on the upper surface of the piston as Newcomen did , to fill the interstices between piston and cylinder ...
... difficulty was not so easily indicated . Watt having closed the top of the cylinder to save steam , was debarred from using water on the upper surface of the piston as Newcomen did , to fill the interstices between piston and cylinder ...
Page 64
... on , steadily gaining ground , meeting and solving one difficulty after another , certain that he had discovered how to utilise steam . Partnership with Roebuck CHAPTER IV PARTNERSHIP WITH ROEBUCK APITAL was 64 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... on , steadily gaining ground , meeting and solving one difficulty after another , certain that he had discovered how to utilise steam . Partnership with Roebuck CHAPTER IV PARTNERSHIP WITH ROEBUCK APITAL was 64 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
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