James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... instruments of navigation , compasses , quadrants , etc. , always receiv- ing special attention at his hands . The sturdy son of a sturdy Covenanter , he refused to take the test in favor of prelacy ( 1683 ) , and was therefore ...
... instruments of navigation , compasses , quadrants , etc. , always receiv- ing special attention at his hands . The sturdy son of a sturdy Covenanter , he refused to take the test in favor of prelacy ( 1683 ) , and was therefore ...
Page 5
... instruments . He built shops at the back of his house , and such were the demands upon him that he was able to keep a number of men , sometimes as many as fourteen , constantly at work . Like his father , he became a man of position and ...
... instruments . He built shops at the back of his house , and such were the demands upon him that he was able to keep a number of men , sometimes as many as fourteen , constantly at work . Like his father , he became a man of position and ...
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... instrument maker was to be found in Glasgow , but Watt entered the service of a kind of jack - of - all - trades , who called himself an " optician " and sold and mended spectacles , repaired fiddles , tuned spinets , made fishing ...
... instrument maker was to be found in Glasgow , but Watt entered the service of a kind of jack - of - all - trades , who called himself an " optician " and sold and mended spectacles , repaired fiddles , tuned spinets , made fishing ...
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... compasses , brass sectors , theodolites , and other delicate instruments . Before his year was finished he wrote his father that he had made " a brass 66 sector with a French joint , which is reckoned 30 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... compasses , brass sectors , theodolites , and other delicate instruments . Before his year was finished he wrote his father that he had made " a brass 66 sector with a French joint , which is reckoned 30 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
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... Instruments " -nothing per- taining to his craft but he would know . King he would be in that , so everything was made to revolve around it . That was the foundation upon which he had to build . To the old home in Scotland our hero's ...
... Instruments " -nothing per- taining to his craft but he would know . King he would be in that , so everything was made to revolve around it . That was the foundation upon which he had to build . To the old home in Scotland our hero's ...
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