A Descriptive History of the Steam EngineJ. Knight and H. Lacey, 1824 - 228 pages |
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admitted affusion air-pump apparatus applied Arthur Woolfe Atmospheric Engine attached axis beam boiler bottom cistern cock cold water communication condense the steam condensing Engine constructed contrivance crank Desaguliers descends diameter elasticity Elector of Hesse employed engraving equal erected expansion experiment feet Figure fire formed Furnace gine heat honour Hornblower improvements inches ingenious injection introduced invention inventor Jacob Perkins James Watt John Jonathan Hornblower lever lever-beam Lexicon Technicum London machine machinery Marquis of Worcester Matthew Murray mechanism mode moving Newcomen operation Papin patent Phil pipe piston piston-rod placed plug-frame pounds pounds weight pressed pressure principle produced pump quantity raising water receiver reservoir Richard Trevithick Robison Rotative engine ROTATORY ENGINE Savery Savery's Engine Saving fuel scheme shewn side Steam Boat Steam Engine steam piston Steam wheel steam-tight stroke surface tion Trevithick vacuum valve vapour vessel Watt Watt's weight
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Page 190 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 112 - ... it in a case of wood, or any other materials that transmit heat slowly ; secondly, by surrounding it with s.team or other heated bodies ; and, thirdly, by suffering neither water, nor any other substance colder than the steam, to enter or touch it during that time.
Page 81 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Page 97 - When this was raised as high as was thought proper, the communication with the digester was shut, and- that with the atmosphere opened ; the steam then made its escape, and the weight descended. The operations were repeated, and, though in this experiment the cock was turned by hand, it was easy to see how it could be done by the machine itself, and make it work with perfect regularity.
Page 192 - In his temper and dispositions he was not only kind and affectionate, but generous and considerate of the feelings of all around him ; and gave the most liberal assistance and encouragement to all young persons who showed any indications of talent, or applied to him for patronage or advice.
Page 191 - This will be the fame of Watt with future generations, and it is sufficient for his race and his country. But to those to whom he more immediately belonged, — who lived in his society, and enjoyed his conversation, it is not, perhaps, the character in which he will be most frequently recalled— most deeply lamented — or even most highly admired. Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his...
Page 12 - One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has but to turn two cocks that one vessel of water being consumed another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively; the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Page 192 - ... mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary, — and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances as the productions of " a young artist, just entering on his eighty-third year !" This happy and useful life came at last to a gentle close.
Page 192 - His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years : and he preserved, up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gaiety which had illuminated his happiest days.
Page 192 - ... his younger friends, that was always felt by them as an endearing mark of his kindness and familiarity, — and prized accordingly, far beyond all the solemn compliments that ever proceeded from the lips of authority. His voice...