James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 36
Page 6
... steady progress , growing in usefulness to their fellows ; men of unblemished character , kind and considerate , winning the confidence and affection of their neighbors , and leaving behind them records unstained . 6 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... steady progress , growing in usefulness to their fellows ; men of unblemished character , kind and considerate , winning the confidence and affection of their neighbors , and leaving behind them records unstained . 6 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
Page 8
... kind , so sweet , so helpful to all her neighbors . The Watt family for generations steadily 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 ...
... kind , so sweet , so helpful to all her neighbors . The Watt family for generations steadily 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 ...
Page 9
... kind heart and all the sensibility and enthusiasm of the Celt , easily touched to fine issues . She was a Scot of the Scots and a storehouse of border lore , as became a daughter of her house , Muirhead of Lachop . Here , then , we have ...
... kind heart and all the sensibility and enthusiasm of the Celt , easily touched to fine issues . She was a Scot of the Scots and a storehouse of border lore , as became a daughter of her house , Muirhead of Lachop . Here , then , we have ...
Page 14
... work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind . Many of the most delicate parts , even of working engines , passed through 14 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... work required when the tools of precision of our day were unknown and the men themselves were only workmen of the crudest kind . Many of the most delicate parts , even of working engines , passed through 14 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
Page 17
... kind uncle " on the bonnie , " bonnie banks o ' Loch Lomond , " where the summer months were spent , gave the youth his happiest days . Indefatigable in habits of observation and research , and devoted to the lonely hills , he extended ...
... kind uncle " on the bonnie , " bonnie banks o ' Loch Lomond , " where the summer months were spent , gave the youth his happiest days . Indefatigable in habits of observation and research , and devoted to the lonely hills , he extended ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
altho Argand burner became Birmingham Boulton and Watt Britain canal Captain coal condenser Cornwall cylinder discovery doubt erected expansively experiments famous father fortune genius give Glasgow Greenock hand heart honor horse-power idea improved instrument invention inventor James Watt Jamie kind knew labor latent heat less letter London Lord Lord Brougham Lord Kelvin Lunar Society machine machinery manufacture mathematical matter mechanical ment mind mother motion Muirhead Murdoch nature needed never Newcomen engine partner partnership passed patent perfect philosopher phlogiston piston pound Priestley principle probably Professor Black proved pump record rendered Richard Lovell Edgeworth Robison Roebuck says Scot Scotch Scotland seems ship skilled Soho soon steam engine stroke success things tion to-day trial trouble Watt and Boulton Watt engine Watt wrote Watt's day wonder workmen writes young youth