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)
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itions, indifferent languages,were published withina century. The mindsof the curious and thescientific were thus di-rected to the subject ofsteam as a motivepower. But for a longtime they never got beyond the idea ofHeros ^olipile, though they endeavouredto apply the rotary motion produced by itin… … BRAXXAS MACHINE an apparatus ^ See Bennet Woodcrofts Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from theoriginal Greek, London, 1851. 8 SOLOMON DE CAUS. Chap. I. contrived by liim for pounding drugs. The jet forcedround the vanes of a wheel, so as to 23roduce a rotarymotion, and this, being communicated to…
