Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-, Williams, Edward Huntington, 1868-1944, joint author · New York and London, The Goodhue company · leaf 120
with a Frenchman,Denis Papin, a scientific worker, who, being banishedfrom his own country, was established as professor ofmathematics at the University of Marburg. He con-ceived the important idea of transmitting power bymeans of a piston as early as 1688, and about two yearslater added the idea… … CAPTIVE MOLECULES of Savery; to the Frenchman, therefore, must be giventhe credit of hitting upon two important principleswhich made feasible the modem steam engine. Papinconstructed a model consisting of a small cylinder inwhich a solid piston worked. In the cylinder beneaththe piston was placed a…
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