Great facts : a popular history and description of the most remarkable inventions during the present century (1860)
Bakewell, Frederick C. (Frederick Collier), 1800-1869 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 25
person does not answer their expectationsin every point, instead of friendly treatment for hisgood intentions, he too often meets with ridicule andcontempt. At the time of Mr. Hulls invention, Watt had notmade his improvements in the steam engine, and thekind of engine Hulls employed was similar to… … as he called them, were placed at the stern, betweentwo wheels, which were turned by ropes passing overtheir peripheries. The alternate motion of the pistonw^as ingeniously converted into a continuous rotarymovement, by connection with other ropes attachedto the piston and to the weight, the…
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