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 230
e, and volume of steam.Then, reasoning from the data which he had thus ob-tained, he framed a body of principles expressing theconditions of the efficient and economic working of thesteam engine, which are embodied in an invention de-scribed by himself in the following words, in the speci-fication… … James Watt.—From a print )jy lloU, afterSir W. Beechy. 204 THE CLYDE: FROM SOURCE TO SEA. to be employed to work the engine, which is called thecylinder in common lire-engines, and which I call thesteam-vessel, must, durin*! the whole time the eno;ine isat work, be kept as hot as the steam that…
Steam-navigation · Clyde River (Scotland)
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