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 88
increased fromsix or eight to fifteen orsixteen in the minute.This invention wasafterwards greatly im-proved by Mr. HenryBeighton, of New-castle-on-Tyne, whoadded the plug-rodand hand-gear. Hedid away with thecatches and strings ofthe boy Potters rudeapj)aratus, and substi-tuted a rod suspendedfrom… … NEWCOMENS ENGINE, the year 1720, and erected an engineat a mine in Hungary, described byLeupold in his Theatrum Machina-rum, with many encomiums uponPotter, who was considered the in-ventor. ^ The iUustration shows the severalparts of Newcomens atmospheric en-gine, a is the boiler; &, the…
