A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 154
which thegreat sources of power in Nature are converted, adapted,and applied for the use and convenience of man, he is fullyentitled to preeminence. His character as a man was noless admirable than as an engineer. Smiles, Watts most conscientious and indefatigablebiographer, writes: Some months… … up since his death, and had only once been swept out.Everything lay very much as he left it. The piece of 130 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. iron which he was last employed in turning, lay on thelathe. The ashes of the last fire were in the grate ; the lastbit of coal was in the…
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