 | John Richard Green - 1899 - 504 pages
...street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far as the herd's house when the idea came into...exhausted vessel it would rush into it, and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked farther than the Golf -house when... | |
 | William Jacks - 1901 - 260 pages
...washing house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house1 when the idea came into my mind that as steam was...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection water if I used a jet,... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 260 pages
...flashed suddenly upon his mind: I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon, early in 1765. I had entered the green by the gate at the foot of...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection- water if I used a jet... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 356 pages
...He took up chemistry and was assisted in his studies by Dr. Black, the discoverer of "latent heat." Observing the great loss of heat in the Newcomen engine,...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder." Through this invention the piston was now moved by the expansion of steam, not by air pressure,... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 358 pages
...through his mind the happy thought of how this could be done. "I had gone to take a walk," he says, "on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green...it and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder." This improvement it is by right of which James Watt may justly be called the "inventor"... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 358 pages
...the happy thought of how this" could be done. "I had gone to take a walk," he says, "on a 6o PHYSICS fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by...it and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder." This improvement it is by right of which James Watt may justly be called the "inventor"... | |
 | Rupert Sargent Holland - 1911 - 344 pages
...entered the green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street and had passed the old washing-house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1911 - 888 pages
...washinghouse, thinking upon the engine at the time, when the idea came into my head that, as steam is an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder." The idea was simple, but in it lay the germ of the first steam engine of much practical... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1915 - 658 pages
...words, " as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum and if a communication were opened between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder." It would then be necessary to draw off the condensed... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1915 - 742 pages
...words, " as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum and if a communication were opened between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder." It would then be necessary to draw off the condensed... | |
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I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted... 
