A text-book of physics, largely experimental. On the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." (1891)
Hall, Edwin Herbert, 1855-1938, Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917 · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 414
A T THE STEAM-ENGINE. 389 Smeatons engine, James Watt, instrument-maker to theUniversity of Glasgow, was employed to repair one. Hesaw the great possibilities of steam-power, and devoted theremainder of his life to the construction and improvementof the steam-engine. The enormous advances which… … Fia. 215.* special use, pumping water from mines. He made it one ofthe great factors of civilized life. * From Bourne, CHAPTER XXVI.RADIANT ENERGY. 312. The Luminif erous Ether.—That medium (see § § 113and 256) by which light is transmitted through what wecommonly called a vacuum is named by…
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