A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 168
ave of James Watt and of his contempo- THE CONTEMPORABIES OF JAMES WATT. 143 raries, of the former of whom a French author says : Thepart which he played in the mechanical applications of thepower of steam can only be compared to that of Newton inastronomy and of Shakespeare in poetry. Since the… … CHAPTER IV. THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civiliza-tion and happiness of our species.—MiCAnLAY. The Second Peeiod of Application—1800-40.Steam-Locomotion on Raileoads. Inteodfctoey.—The commencement of the nineteenthcentury found the modem…
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