James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 8
... 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 glance over the record of the Cecils , for ...
... 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 glance over the record of the Cecils , for ...
Page 14
... improved . When new pro- cesses have been invented , these also have usually suggested themselves to the able workmen as they experienced the crudeness of existing methods . In- deed , few important inventions have come from those who ...
... improved . When new pro- cesses have been invented , these also have usually suggested themselves to the able workmen as they experienced the crudeness of existing methods . In- deed , few important inventions have come from those who ...
Page 40
... improved everything he touched . For his second organ he devised a num- ber of novelties , a sustained monochord , indicators and regulators of the blast , means for tuning to any system , contrivances for improving the stops , etc ...
... improved everything he touched . For his second organ he devised a num- ber of novelties , a sustained monochord , indicators and regulators of the blast , means for tuning to any system , contrivances for improving the stops , etc ...
Page 57
... improved conditions from time to time . Watt leads the steam out of the 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 ) ...
... improved conditions from time to time . Watt leads the steam out of the 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 ) ...
Page 61
... improved since then , than in this very department of applied mechanics . To - day such a model as Watt constructed in the cellar would be simple work indeed . Even the gasoline or the elec- tric motor of to - day , though complicated ...
... improved since then , than in this very department of applied mechanics . To - day such a model as Watt constructed in the cellar would be simple work indeed . Even the gasoline or the elec- tric motor of to - day , though complicated ...
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