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 332
was the one inventedby Wm. Murdock, and com-monly known as the sun andplanet motion.^ It has thesingular property, said Watt, of going twice round for eachstroke of the engine, and maybe made to go oftener roundif required without additionalmachinery. Rough sketches of these va-rious methods were… … SDiJ AND PLANET MOTION. 310 SUPEEHEATma STEAM. Chap. XV time to be lodged with the specification ; but when theyreached Watt in Cornwall, he declared them to be soclumsily executed that he could not for very shame sendthem in ; and though greatly pressed by mining business,and suffering from…
