James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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Page 14
... machinery or devices which they have 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 ...
... machinery or devices which they have 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 ...
Page 53
... machinery is a little more than one pound from every hundred con- sumed . When Watt gave to the steam - engine five times its efficiency by utilising the latent heat , he only touched the fringe of the mysterious realm which envelops ...
... machinery is a little more than one pound from every hundred con- sumed . When Watt gave to the steam - engine five times its efficiency by utilising the latent heat , he only touched the fringe of the mysterious realm which envelops ...
Page 61
... machinery . Skilled workmen do not have to fashion the parts . They only stand looking on at machinery - itself made by automatic tools - performing work of unerring accuracy . Had Watt had at his call only a small part of the ...
... machinery . Skilled workmen do not have to fashion the parts . They only stand looking on at machinery - itself made by automatic tools - performing work of unerring accuracy . Had Watt had at his call only a small part of the ...
Page 72
... machinery , furnaces and methods of mine - working in the upper Hartz . Alas ! the book was in German , and he could not understand it . He promptly resolved to master the language , sought out a Swiss - German dyer then settled in ...
... machinery , furnaces and methods of mine - working in the upper Hartz . Alas ! the book was in German , and he could not understand it . He promptly resolved to master the language , sought out a Swiss - German dyer then settled in ...
Page 81
... machinery could pump out . He had hoped that the new engine would prove successful and sufficiently powerful in time to avert the drowning of the pits , but this hope had failed . His embarrassments were so pressing that he was unable ...
... machinery could pump out . He had hoped that the new engine would prove successful and sufficiently powerful in time to avert the drowning of the pits , but this hope had failed . His embarrassments were so pressing that he was unable ...
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