James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... perfect . Watt's mission saved him from this , for to succeed he had to be master , not of one process , but of all . Hence we find him first making brass scales , parallel - rulers and quadrants . By the end of one month in this ...
... perfect . Watt's mission saved him from this , for to succeed he had to be master , not of one process , but of all . Hence we find him first making brass scales , parallel - rulers and quadrants . By the end of one month in this ...
Page 37
... perfect equality of the various schools , the humanities not neglected , the sciences appreciated , neither accorded precedence . Its scientific Professor , Thompson , now Lord Kelvin , was recently elevated to the Lord Chancellorship ...
... perfect equality of the various schools , the humanities not neglected , the sciences appreciated , neither accorded precedence . Its scientific Professor , Thompson , now Lord Kelvin , was recently elevated to the Lord Chancellorship ...
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... perfect power of motion which utilises all energy ! How came he then to exclaim " What a piece of work is man ; how infinite in faculty ; " in form and moving how express and admirable ” ? This query , and a thousand others , have ...
... perfect power of motion which utilises all energy ! How came he then to exclaim " What a piece of work is man ; how infinite in faculty ; " in form and moving how express and admirable ” ? This query , and a thousand others , have ...
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... perfect steam " engine it was necessary that the cylinder should be " always as hot as the steam which entered it , and " that the steam should be cooled below 100 ° to exert " its full powers . " Watt describes how at last the idea of ...
... perfect steam " engine it was necessary that the cylinder should be " always as hot as the steam which entered it , and " that the steam should be cooled below 100 ° to exert " its full powers . " Watt describes how at last the idea of ...
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... perfect joints " meant in those days . The entire cor- rectness of the great idea was , however , demonstrated by the trials made . The right principle had been dis- covered ; no doubt of that . Watt's decision was that " it must be ...
... perfect joints " meant in those days . The entire cor- rectness of the great idea was , however , demonstrated by the trials made . The right principle had been dis- covered ; no doubt of that . Watt's decision was that " it must be ...
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