The Clyde from its source to the sea, its development as a navigable river, the rise and progress of marine engineering and shipbuilding on its banks, and the leading historical, geological, and meteorological features of the Clyde Valley (1888)
Millar, W. J · London, Blackie · leaf 122
re James Watt first made his immortaldiscovery, which gave the old and inefficient steam-enginea renewed vitality? As we stand on the platform, we seethe locomotive with its train behind, the fire burningbrightly and the steam up to its required pressure, withthe electric light brilliantly showing… … 104 THE CLYDE: FROM SOURCE TO SEA. has been lectured and experimented upon in the class-room and laboratory o£ the old buildings. And the namesof Black, Watt, Rankine, and Thomson occur to us asworkers in the field of science, whose investigations inthis very place have helped to bring about these…
Steam-navigation · Clyde River (Scotland)
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