The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His CorrespondenceJohn Murray, 1859 - 572 páginas |
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... fire - engines , " of the old atmospheric sort , were employed in pumping water out of some widely - scattered coal - pits and mines ; that they did their task laboriously , expensively , and badly ; that steam was not then applied ...
... fire - engines , " of the old atmospheric sort , were employed in pumping water out of some widely - scattered coal - pits and mines ; that they did their task laboriously , expensively , and badly ; that steam was not then applied ...
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... fire at Mil- * Introduction to Napier's Trea- tise , De Arte Logisticâ , ' printed , under Mr. Mark Napier's able editor- ship , for the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs , Edinburgh , 1839 , p . iv . See also Mr. Napier's Preface to his ...
... fire at Mil- * Introduction to Napier's Trea- tise , De Arte Logisticâ , ' printed , under Mr. Mark Napier's able editor- ship , for the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs , Edinburgh , 1839 , p . iv . See also Mr. Napier's Preface to his ...
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... fire " The generous course : aspire , and still aspire ; “ Upheld by warnings heeded not too late , " Stifle the contradictions of their fate , " And to one purpose cleave , their Being's godlike mate ! With these views he came to ...
... fire " The generous course : aspire , and still aspire ; “ Upheld by warnings heeded not too late , " Stifle the contradictions of their fate , " And to one purpose cleave , their Being's godlike mate ! With these views he came to ...
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... fire contained “ in it ; and as this could come only from the coals , Mr. Watt " saw at once that the chief improvements that the engine " was susceptible of must consist in contrivances for increasing " the production , and for ...
... fire contained “ in it ; and as this could come only from the coals , Mr. Watt " saw at once that the chief improvements that the engine " was susceptible of must consist in contrivances for increasing " the production , and for ...
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... fire , having lying on his knee a little tin cistern , which he was looking at . I entered " into conversation on what we had been speaking of at last " meeting , something about steam . All the while , Mr. Watt kept looking at the fire ...
... fire , having lying on his knee a little tin cistern , which he was looking at . I entered " into conversation on what we had been speaking of at last " meeting , something about steam . All the while , Mr. Watt kept looking at the fire ...
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