James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... Mechanical points . The result is this volume . If the public , in reading , have one tithe of the pleasure I have had in writing it , I shall be amply rewarded . THE AUTHOR . Author's Preface CONTENTS V CHAPTER I. Childhood and Youth •
... Mechanical points . The result is this volume . If the public , in reading , have one tithe of the pleasure I have had in writing it , I shall be amply rewarded . THE AUTHOR . Author's Preface CONTENTS V CHAPTER I. Childhood and Youth •
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... mechanical force known to man . The fond mother having lost several of her children born previously was intensely solicitous in her care of James , who was so delicate that regular attendance at school was impossible . The greater part ...
... mechanical force known to man . The fond mother having lost several of her children born previously was intensely solicitous in her care of James , who was so delicate that regular attendance at school was impossible . The greater part ...
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... mechanical dexterity of the Watts , grandfather , father and son , is not to be belittled , for most of the mechanical inventions have come from those who have been cunning of hand and have worked as manual laborers , generally in ...
... mechanical dexterity of the Watts , grandfather , father and son , is not to be belittled , for most of the mechanical inventions have come from those who have been cunning of hand and have worked as manual laborers , generally in ...
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... mechanical science , and enabled him to gratify his unquenchable thirst for knowledge thereof . Naturally Glasgow was decided upon as the proper place in which to begin , and Watt took up his abode there with his maternal relatives ...
... mechanical science , and enabled him to gratify his unquenchable thirst for knowledge thereof . Naturally Glasgow was decided upon as the proper place in which to begin , and Watt took up his abode there with his maternal relatives ...
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... mechanical philosophy ) , and was rather mortified at finding Mr. Watt so much my superior . But his own high relish for those things made him pleased with the chat of any person who had the same tastes with himself ; or his innate ...
... mechanical philosophy ) , and was rather mortified at finding Mr. Watt so much my superior . But his own high relish for those things made him pleased with the chat of any person who had the same tastes with himself ; or his innate ...
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