James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... idea haunted me , and if they still desired me to undertake it , I should do so with my heart in the task . I now know about the steam - engine , and have also had revealed to me one of the finest characters that ever graced the earth ...
... idea haunted me , and if they still desired me to undertake it , I should do so with my heart in the task . I now know about the steam - engine , and have also had revealed to me one of the finest characters that ever graced the earth ...
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... idea was that steam might be applied to wheel carriages . Watt admitted his ignorance of steam then . Nevertheless , he made a model of a wheel carriage with two cylinders of tin plate , but being slightly and inaccurately made , it ...
... idea was that steam might be applied to wheel carriages . Watt admitted his ignorance of steam then . Nevertheless , he made a model of a wheel carriage with two cylinders of tin plate , but being slightly and inaccurately made , it ...
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... idea of it , and at the same time a much - needed reminder of the fact that Watt was the discoverer of the practically constant and unvarying amount of heat in steam , whatever the pressure , is the following by Mr. Lauder , a graduate ...
... idea of it , and at the same time a much - needed reminder of the fact that Watt was the discoverer of the practically constant and unvarying amount of heat in steam , whatever the pressure , is the following by Mr. Lauder , a graduate ...
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... idea of it to the general reader . Suppose you take a flask , such as olive oil is often sold in , and fill with ... ideas : suppose you take 100 lbs . of water at 60 ° , and blow one pound of steam into it , making 101 lbs . , its ...
... idea of it to the general reader . Suppose you take a flask , such as olive oil is often sold in , and fill with ... ideas : suppose you take 100 lbs . of water at 60 ° , and blow one pound of steam into it , making 101 lbs . , its ...
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... idea of the " separate condenser , " the complete cure , flashed suddenly upon his mind : I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon , early in 1765. I had entered the green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street and had ...
... idea of the " separate condenser , " the complete cure , flashed suddenly upon his mind : I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon , early in 1765. I had entered the green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street and had ...
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