 I must get quit 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 35 or 36 feet,...  James Watt - Page 56by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Sarson - 1929 - 272 pages
...passed the old washing-houses. I was thinking upon the engine at the time. ... I had not walked further than the Golfhouse when the whole thing was arranged in my mind." In the ten years or so that followed this great discovery Watt's steam-engine came into use for almost... | |
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