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1 Intr | Watt's invention of his steam engine. It is quoted, although 2 Intr | accurately, in such Watt/steam engine works as H.W. Dickinson, 3 Intr | Dickinson, Short History of the Steam Engine, with a new introduction 4 Intr | Jenkins, James Watt and the Steam Engine (1927), p. 23; and 5 Intr | Watt's invention of his steam engine that is also derived 6 Intr | Musson, James Watt and the Steam Revolution (1969), p. 41- 7 Intr | Musson, James Watt and the Steam Revolution, p. 40. This 8 Intr | Musson, James Watt and the Steam Revolution, p. 194-95, and 9 Text, 2| said he tried canes for steam pipes, but found they would 10 Text, 2| which we made our temporary steam joints, which was to mix 11 Text, 2| joint; as soon as it got the steam it became quite tight. He 12 Text, 3| wanted, and cut off the steam at half-stroke. This was 13 Text, 3| This was a great saving of steam as long as the valves were 14 Text, 3| improvement; often by giving more steam, the engine did more work 15 Text, 3| did more work while the steam lasted, but the boiler could 16 Text, 3| Then complaints of want of steam came and we had to send 17 Text, 3| up the expansion of the steam until we could get men that 18 Text, 4| came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would 19 Text, 4| get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if 20 Text, 4| kept cool, and condense the steam by external cold, as he 21 Text, 4| and to act on it only by steam. To effect this he connected 22 Text, 4| cylinder of air by allowing the steam to blow through it freely, 23 Text, 4| rod. He then shut off the steam from above the piston, and 24 Text, 4| piston was raised by the steam under it, ~