James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... day . Watt met his first irreparable loss in 1753 , when his mother suddenly died . The relations between them had been such as are only possible between mother and son . Often had the mother said to her intimates that she had been ...
... day . Watt met his first irreparable loss in 1753 , when his mother suddenly died . The relations between them had been such as are only possible between mother and son . Often had the mother said to her intimates that she had been ...
Page 23
... Watt family , a sea - captain , was about to set forth upon that then long and toilsome journey . They started from Glasgow June 7 , 1755 , on horseback , the journey taking twelve days . The writer's parents often referred to the fact ...
... Watt family , a sea - captain , was about to set forth upon that then long and toilsome journey . They started from Glasgow June 7 , 1755 , on horseback , the journey taking twelve days . The writer's parents often referred to the fact ...
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... Watt's day from the extreme north of Scotland would have consumed nearly twice twelve days to reach Westminster . To- day if the capital of the English - speaking race were in America , which Lord Roseberry says he is willing it should ...
... Watt's day from the extreme north of Scotland would have consumed nearly twice twelve days to reach Westminster . To- day if the capital of the English - speaking race were in America , which Lord Roseberry says he is willing it should ...
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... Watt's steam engine is a reality . a After his twelve days on horseback , Watt arrived in London , a stranger in a strange land , unknowing and unknown . But the fates had been kind for , burdened with neither wealth nor rank , this ...
... Watt's steam engine is a reality . a After his twelve days on horseback , Watt arrived in London , a stranger in a strange land , unknowing and unknown . But the fates had been kind for , burdened with neither wealth nor rank , this ...
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... day's task was over , and soon made his position secure as a workman . Special- isation he met with for the first time , and he expresses surprise that " very few here know any more than how to " make a rule , others a pair of dividers ...
... day's task was over , and soon made his position secure as a workman . Special- isation he met with for the first time , and he expresses surprise that " very few here know any more than how to " make a rule , others a pair of dividers ...
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