James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... Birmingham 121 VII . Second Patent 157 VIII . The Record of the Steam Engine 195 IX . Watt in Old Age 213 X. Watt , the Inventor and Discoverer 223 XI . Watt , the Man 233 Childhood and Youth CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH AMES WATT.
... Birmingham 121 VII . Second Patent 157 VIII . The Record of the Steam Engine 195 IX . Watt in Old Age 213 X. Watt , the Inventor and Discoverer 223 XI . Watt , the Man 233 Childhood and Youth CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH AMES WATT.
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... record in the three generations of the Watts , great - grandfather , grandfather and father , all able and ... records unstained . 6 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
... record in the three generations of the Watts , great - grandfather , grandfather and father , all able and ... records unstained . 6 LIFE OF JAMES WATT.
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Andrew Carnegie. their neighbors , and leaving behind them records unstained . So much for the male branch of the family tree , but this is only half . What of that of the grandmothers and mothers of the line - equally important ? For ...
Andrew Carnegie. their neighbors , and leaving behind them records unstained . So much for the male branch of the family tree , but this is only half . What of that of the grandmothers and mothers of the line - equally important ? For ...
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... forget how little of the original strain of an old family remains in after days . We glance over the record of the Cecils , for instance , to find that the present Marquis has less than one four - thousandth part of the 8 LIFE OF JAMES ...
... forget how little of the original strain of an old family remains in after days . We glance over the record of the Cecils , for instance , to find that the present Marquis has less than one four - thousandth part of the 8 LIFE OF JAMES ...
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... records of three marriages . Our Watt , therefore , had but one - eighth of the original Watt strain ; seven- eighths being that of the three ladies who married into the family . Upon the entrance of a gentlewoman of Agnes Muirhead's ...
... records of three marriages . Our Watt , therefore , had but one - eighth of the original Watt strain ; seven- eighths being that of the three ladies who married into the family . Upon the entrance of a gentlewoman of Agnes Muirhead's ...
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