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 81
nsumption of fuel, the cost of wear and tear,the constant danger of explosion, and the risk of theworks being stopped by any one of the engines becomingtemporarily deranged, rendered it clear that the use ofhis engine for ordinary mining purposes was altogetherimpracticable. Such was the state of… … NEWCOMENS HOD3E, DARTI^t IH. [B; notice in those days; they were looked iij)on as schemers,and oftener regarded as objects of suspicion than ofrespect, Thomas Newcomen was by trade an iron-monger and a blacksmith. The house in which he livedand worked stood, until quite recently, in Lower…
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