Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine (1865)
Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott and company; · leaf 141
to thelatent heat of steam, said Mr. Wattto me, it was a piece of knowledgeessential to my inquiries, and Iworked it out myself in the best way phials for my apparatus, and bymeans of them I got approximationssufficient for my purpose at thetime. The passage affords a strikingillustration of the… … he proceeded to experiment on the force of steam bysmall Papins digester and a syringe.The syringe was only the third of an inchin diameter, fitted with a solid piston;and it was connected with the digesterby a pipe furnished with a stopcock, bywhich the steam was admitted or shut offat will. It…
