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 310
man who first contrivedthe common foot-lathe : ap-plying it to the engine waslike taking a knife to cutcheese which had been made to cut bread. Though Watt had become very reserved, especially tostrangers, about his inventions, he could not altogetherkeep from the knowledge of his workmen the… … THE CEANK AS APPLIED IN THEFOOT-LATHE. ^ Watt had made use of the crauk denser, I laid aside the spiral Avheelsat a very early period. Thus we find because of the noise and thumping,him writing to Dr. Small on the 20th [ and substituted a crank: in otherSeptember, 176.>,— As to the con- respects…
