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" I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirtyfive or thirty-six... "
James Watt - Page 60
by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pages
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Professionalism and Originality: With an Appendix of Suggestions Bearing on ...

Frank Herbert Hayward - 1917 - 284 pages
...thinking upon the engine at the time . . . when the idea [of a separate condenser] came into my mind. ... I had not walked farther than the golfhouse when the whole thing was arranged in my mind." Examples from Artistic Invention. The same principle largely holds good of artistic invention. " In...
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A History of Engineering

Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - 1925 - 330 pages
...the water might be run off by a condensing pipe, if an off-let could be got at the depth of 35 or 36 feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump....pump large enough to extract both water and air." He continued: " I had not walked further than the golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my...
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Man and Civilization ...

John Storck - 1926 - 240 pages
...rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. ... I had not walked further than the golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind. Watt's greatest invention, which consisted in the idea of introducing the steam alternately on each...
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James Watt and the Steam Engine: The Memorial Volume Prepared for the ...

Henry Winram Dickinson, Rhys Jenkins - 1927 - 602 pages
...the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of 35 or 36 feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump...the pump large enough to extract both water and air. ... 7 had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind.' Thus...
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What Every Engineer Should Know about Inventing

Middendorf - 1981 - 172 pages
...the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of 35 or 36 feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump;...Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind. Steam engines had been used for at least a hundred years. Watt had worked diligently for two years...
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Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine

Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 pages
...the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an outlet could be got at the depth of 35 or 36 feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump;...the pump large enough to extract both water and air . . . / had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind.7 Watt...
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Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention

Ben Marsden - 2002 - 234 pages
...engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First the water might be run off by a descending pipe ... and any air might be extracted by a small pump; the...to extract both water and air ...I had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind. Watt's idea was brilliant...
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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber

Stephen Yafa - 2006 - 436 pages
...exhausting vessel, it might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. ... I had not walked further than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind." He introduced a layer of steam in a jacket between the engine's inner and outer cylinders, as a way...
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Great Inventors

100 pages
...be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirt/-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump....golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind." With a separate condenser, the condensation process could take place constantly and the steam cylinder...
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A History of the English People: 1760-1815, Volume 10

John Richard Green - 1901 - 257 pages
...exhausted vessel it would rusk into it, and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked farther than the Golf-house when the whole thing was arranged in my mind." The employment of a separate condenser, with the entire discarding of any other force in its action...
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