A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine, Parts 1-2 |
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adopted applied beam boat boiler Boulton Boulton & Watt Boulton and Watt built carriage carried Charlotte Dundas coal compound engine condenser connected connecting-rod construction crank cross-head cut-off cylinder designed draught driving driving-wheels expansion experiments feet long feet stroke fire-box fire-engine Fitch flue form of engine fuel Fulton furnace George Stephenson gine heat heating-surface horse-power hull improvement inches in diameter introduced invention inventor iron-clads James Watt later locomotive machine machinery mechanical method miles an hour motion naval Newcomen engine Oliver Evans paddle-wheels Papin patent pipe piston-rod placed pounds per square propelling proposed pump pumping-engine railroad raised road Ross Winans rotary engine Savery screw secured seen shaft ship sketch Soho speed square inch steam steam-boiler steam-carriage steam-cylinder steam-engine steam-pipe steam-pressure steam-valve steamboat steamers Stephenson Stevens stroke of piston successful temperature Thomas Savery tion tons Trevithick tubes United usually valve valve-gear vessel Watt's weight wheels
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Page 418 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 193 - What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stage-coaches! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Page 131 - THOSE WHO BEST DESERVE THEIR GRATITUDE, THE KING HIS MINISTERS, AND MANY OF THE NOBLES AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO JAMES WATT, WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS, EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE...
Page 180 - York, which marks an honorable spirit of enterprise and comprises objects of national as well as more limited importance, will recall the attention of Congress to the signal advantages to be derived to the United States from a general system of internal communication and conveyance, and suggest to their consideration whatever steps may be proper on their part toward its introduction and accomplishment.
Page 100 - I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the same manner as the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common fire engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging the steam into the open air, after it has done its office.
Page 100 - In engines that are to be worked wholly or partially by condensation of steam, the steam is to be condensed in vessels distinct from the...
Page 156 - The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, from one city to another, almost as fast as birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles an hour.
Page 303 - It is on the rivers, and the boatman may -repose on his oars; it is in highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of land conveyance; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet below the earth's surface ; it is in the mill, and in the workshops of the trades. It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints.
Page 101 - ... the valves successively to give a circular motion to the wheel; the valves opening in the direction in which the weights are pressed, but not in the contrary. As the...