The Steam Engine and Its Inventors: A Historical SketchMacmillan, 1881 - 260 sider |
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Side vii
... means of a column of mercury - Pascal ascertains the pressure to be less on the summit of a mountain than at the base . Otto von Guericke invents the air - pump , and demonstrates the effects of the atmospheric pressure by experiments ...
... means of a column of mercury - Pascal ascertains the pressure to be less on the summit of a mountain than at the base . Otto von Guericke invents the air - pump , and demonstrates the effects of the atmospheric pressure by experiments ...
Side ix
... means of producing a perfect vacuum under a piston . Numerous uses to which he considered such an engine might be applied . Pages 43-51 CHAPTER V. OF THOMAS NEWCOMEN BECOMES ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROPOSALS PAPIN , AND CONTEMPLATES THE ...
... means of producing a perfect vacuum under a piston . Numerous uses to which he considered such an engine might be applied . Pages 43-51 CHAPTER V. OF THOMAS NEWCOMEN BECOMES ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROPOSALS PAPIN , AND CONTEMPLATES THE ...
Side xii
... means- -Partnership with Dr. Roebuck of Carron Iron- works - Takes out a patent - Builds an engine at Kinneil , which is found to be much more economical in steam than Newcomen's engine . Dr. Roebuck becomes embarrassed in means - Watt ...
... means- -Partnership with Dr. Roebuck of Carron Iron- works - Takes out a patent - Builds an engine at Kinneil , which is found to be much more economical in steam than Newcomen's engine . Dr. Roebuck becomes embarrassed in means - Watt ...
Side xiii
... means of deriving a rotative motion directly from the steam engine - Wasbrough applies a fly - wheel to the atmospheric engine . Watt begins to experiment with a crank - Pickard patents the application of the crank to the steam engine ...
... means of deriving a rotative motion directly from the steam engine - Wasbrough applies a fly - wheel to the atmospheric engine . Watt begins to experiment with a crank - Pickard patents the application of the crank to the steam engine ...
Side xv
... means of a chain stretched along the road - Hedley , of Wylam , takes out a patent for a locomotive - Brunton , of Butterley Ironworks , patents his " Mechanical Traveller . " Trial of several locomotives almost simultaneously in the ...
... means of a chain stretched along the road - Hedley , of Wylam , takes out a patent for a locomotive - Brunton , of Butterley Ironworks , patents his " Mechanical Traveller . " Trial of several locomotives almost simultaneously in the ...
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afterwards air-pump appears applied atmospheric engine Austhorpe Beighton Blenkinsop's engines boiler Boulton and Watt Boyle built Chacewater chimney Colliery constructed Cornish Engine Cornwall crank Crown 8vo cylinder Davies Gilbert Desaguliers double-acting engine Edition employ steam equilibrium-valve erected Experimental Philosophy experiments Farey feet fire engine fly-wheel force George George Stephenson Glasgow Griff gunpowder high-pressure History Huyghens Ibid improvement inches diameter inches in diameter Inventions of James inventor James Watt locomotive engine London machine Mechanical Inventions miles mines motion Muirhead's Newcastle Newcastle-on-Tyne Newcomen's engine Nicholas Wood North of England numerous obtained pipe piston piston-rod pressure Professor published raising water Robert Stephenson Royal Society Saussaye Savery Savery's engine Smeaton Smiles's Lives steam carriage steam engine steam locomotion steam navigation steam-case success Throckley tons treatise Trevithick tube vacuum valves vessel Vie de Papin waggons Watt's engine Watt's patent weight wheels
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