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æther air-engine amount apparatus applied atmosphere bodies boiler carbonic acid Carnot cent century coal combustion compression condensation construction cooling crown 8vo cylinder duced earth effected efficiency electric employed enormous ergy expansion experiments external fluid foot-pounds force forms of energy forms of matter friction fuel furnace gas-engine gases gine give heat of combustion heat transformation heat-energy heat-engines heat-motion horse-power hot-air engine illustrated improvement inch internal invention inventor James Watt Joule known latent heat later law of thermodynamics less light and heat liquid loss machine machinery mass measured mechanical energy mechanical power metal method modern molecules motion motive power nature Newcomen engine operation particles perature perfect philosophers physicist piston pounds pressure principles proportion pump result Rumford Savery science of thermodynamics seen sensible heat space specific heat steam steam-engine stored stroke substance surface theory tion transfer utilized valve vapor velocity vibration volume waste Watt