James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 11
... increasing power ? Not at the grammar school we trow . No school but one can instil that , where rules the one best teacher you will ever know , genius though you be ― the school kept at your mother's knee . Such mothers as Watt had are ...
... increasing power ? Not at the grammar school we trow . No school but one can instil that , where rules the one best teacher you will ever know , genius though you be ― the school kept at your mother's knee . Such mothers as Watt had are ...
Page 54
... increased fourfold . Here was the prize to contend for . Win this and the campaign is won . First then , what caused the loss ? This was soon determined . The cylinder was necessarily cooled at the top because it was open to the air ...
... increased fourfold . Here was the prize to contend for . Win this and the campaign is won . First then , what caused the loss ? This was soon determined . The cylinder was necessarily cooled at the top because it was open to the air ...
Page 57
... increasing use of the tre- mendous force of steam under higher pressures , and 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 ...
... increasing use of the tre- mendous force of steam under higher pressures , and 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 ...
Page 59
... increased , as was to have been expected , for his work soon made a reputation as being most perfectly executed . At first he was able to carry out all his orders himself ; now he had as many as sixteen workmen . He took a Mr. Craig ...
... increased , as was to have been expected , for his work soon made a reputation as being most perfectly executed . At first he was able to carry out all his orders himself ; now he had as many as sixteen workmen . He took a Mr. Craig ...
Page 107
... Increasing magnitude , to which it is hard to set a limit , is the order of the day . So far all was well , the heavy clouds that had so long hovered menacingly over Boulton and Watt had been displaced once more by clear skies . But no ...
... Increasing magnitude , to which it is hard to set a limit , is the order of the day . So far all was well , the heavy clouds that had so long hovered menacingly over Boulton and Watt had been displaced once more by clear skies . But no ...
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