James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 14
... experiments arise solely because it was in that 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 ...
... experiments arise solely because it was in that 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 ...
Page 15
... experimental devices he had himself to make the models . Never was there an inventor who had such reason to thank fortune that in his youth he had learned to work with his hands . It proved literally true , as his fellow- workmen in the ...
... experimental devices he had himself to make the models . Never was there an inventor who had such reason to thank fortune that in his youth he had learned to work with his hands . It proved literally true , as his fellow- workmen in the ...
Page 16
... fifteen , he had twice carefully read " The Ele- " ments of Philosophy " ( Gravesend ) , and had made numerous chemical experiments , repeating them again and again , until satisfied of their accuracy . A 16 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... fifteen , he had twice carefully read " The Ele- " ments of Philosophy " ( Gravesend ) , and had made numerous chemical experiments , repeating them again and again , until satisfied of their accuracy . A 16 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
Page 36
... experiments , but even this was refused . We are disposed to wonder at this , but it was in strict accordance with the spirit of the times . When the sky was darkest , the clouds broke and revealed the university as his guardian angel ...
... experiments , but even this was refused . We are disposed to wonder at this , but it was in strict accordance with the spirit of the times . When the sky was darkest , the clouds broke and revealed the university as his guardian angel ...
Page 37
... experimental work ; nursery from which came the steam engine of Watt , the discovery of latent heat by its Professor Black , and the successful opera- tion of telegraph cables by its Professor and present Lord Chancellor ( Lord Kelvin ) ...
... experimental work ; nursery from which came the steam engine of Watt , the discovery of latent heat by its Professor Black , and the successful opera- tion of telegraph cables by its Professor and present Lord Chancellor ( Lord Kelvin ) ...
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