The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 430
that mankindhave learned to honor those who best deserve their grati-tude, the King, his Ministers and many of his noblesand commoners of the realm, raised this monument upto James Watt, who, directing the force of an originalgenius, early exercised in philosophical research, to theimprovement of… … JAMES WATT. (425) MM watts impeovements. 427 at Greenock, MDCCXXXYI. Died at HeatMeld, inStaffordshire, MDCCCXIX. The improvements which Watt made in the con-struction of the steam-engine were so radical and num-erous that they almost amount to its invention. Intruth he did construet the…
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