A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 105
rovethe proportions and slightly alter the details of the Newco-men and Galley engine, even by such skillful engineers asBrindley and Smeaton. Of the personal history of theearlier inventors and improvers of the steam-engine, verylittle is ascertained; but that of Watt has become wellknown. 80 THE… … J/:2t James Watt. upon the waters of the Clyde a fleet of steamships whoseengines are probably, in the aggregate, far more powerfulthan were all the engines in the world at the date of Wattsbirth, January 19, 1736. His grandfather, Thomas Watt,of Crawfordsdyke, near Greenock, was a well-known…
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