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501 Text,  5|               to the piston rod, thus showing him he was right in the
502 Intr    |            the original pagination is shown; and generally speaking,
503 Text,  5|             letter to show you, an it shows the slow rate at which goods
504 Text,  4|               the piston rod. He then shut off the steam from above
505 Text,  6|               opportunity of asking a sight of them, to see if he had
506 Text,  2|             was much pleased with the simple way in which we made our
507 Text,  3|                but I gave in from its simplicity." ~ ~On my brother mentioning,
508 Text,  2|               principle introduced by Sir John Leslie, to produce
509 Text,  3|                Murdoch introduced the slide valve I was very much against
510 Text,  3|               was his shop, he gave a smile and said -- "Na, na, lad;
511 Intr    |        account was taken down by John Smith and was sent by him to James
512 Text,  3|       cylinders are used, they become smooth as a watch spring." These
513 Text,  4|             be blown out, as with the sniff-pipe of Newcomon's; and hanging
514 Text,  4|          about the site of the Humane Society-house, or a little to the N.W.
515 Text,  2|            absorption of water by the soft woody part inside, which
516 Text,  6|          JAMES WATT. ~ ~He caused his son, Mr. James Watt, to call
517 Text,  5|             curious experiment that a son-in-law of Mr. Harrison's was going
518 Text,  2|             turns round the joint; as soon as it got the steam it became
519 Text,  7|            little charge to drain all sorts of mines, and furnish cities
520 Text,  7|              dated 28th May, 1699, he speaks of two engines. This one
521 Text,  5|              with, viz., to produce a speculum by turning with a machine
522 Text,  3|              become smooth as a watch spring." These were his words.
523 Text,  6|               Mrs. Walshes', Stirling Square. I shall be glad to hear
524 Intr    |              based upon Robert Hart's statement in the article that the
525 Intr    |            only library in the United States that has the particular
526 Intr    |            Robison's "Dissertation on Steam-engines" for the Encyclopædia Britannica
527 Text,  3|             nearest to the quality of steel for our cylinders, although
528 Intr    |         INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS~John W. Stephens ~This article is copied
529 Text,  6|             the box at Mrs. Walshes', Stirling Square. I shall be glad
530 Text,  6|            and 38 bits, and two drill stocks with 12 drills each, of
531 Text,  5|               at the time. I think it stood where Millar's Place is,
532 Text,  4|             each of these pipes had a stopcock. He produced the vacuum
533 Text,  3|              of the mines a few hours stoppage was a serious matter, as
534 Text,  6| above-mentioned, hindering, much less stopping the other; but unanimously,
535 Text,  6|               cornerwise; to and fro; straight, upright, or downright;
536 Text,  7|               running through several streets, and so performing the work
537 Text,  6|            all augment and contribute strength unto the intended work and
538 Text,  4|             know where the idea first struck you, and what led you to
539 Text,  4|               of the cylinder, with a stuffing round the piston rod, as
540 Text,  7|               boldly call it the most stupendous work in the whole world,
541 Text,  1|            present; yet when the same subjects are touched on, I have as
542 Text,  7|            and to furnish rivers with sufficient to maintain and make them
543 Text,  2|               learned who he was. Our supposed improvement was to save
544 Text,  6|                Watt in 1816. I am not sure if ever we saw the old gentleman
545 Text,  7|          seated, as well as keep them sweet running through several
546 Text,  7|            great ease and geometrical symmetry, that though it work day
547 Intr    |                This other account was taken down by John Smith and was
548 Text,  1|       employers, a Miss M'Gregor, and tall elderly gentleman came into
549 Text,  5|           engine on a pit they called Taylor's Pit. "He," the workman, "
550 Text,  2|               were exposed to various temperatures. In speaking of his early
551 Text,  2|              way in which we made our temporary steam joints, which was
552 Intr    |      published by the journal. In the text version of the article,
553 Text,  2|             in the water of the river Thames, but he could not keep them
554         | their
555         | therefore
556         | thereof
557 Text,  4|              old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time,
558 Text,  1|      steam-engine, I have accordingly thrown together the following brief
559 Intr    |                1927), p. 23; and R.H. Thurston, History of the Growth of
560 Text,  5|               being placed in a small timber house, the colliers called
561         | together
562 Text,  3|            condenser? (as we had been told it was there by persons
563 Text,  3|               could work it, as a few tons of coal per year was less
564 Intr    |            John Hart as "an ingenious tradesman of Glasgow" and the brothers
565 Text,  6|              many years since. I have transcribed these three inventions,
566 Text,  7|          described by him in it. In a translation of it, dated 28th May, 1699,
567 Text,  1|          distinct recollection of his treatment of them as if it were of
568 Text,  4|          putting the invention to the trial, he said he used a small
569 Text,  3|             the joints never gave any trouble; but without this precaution
570 Text,  2|              said that we made her to try what we thought was an improvement,
571 Text,  4|               piston rod, which was a tube with a valve opening outwards.
572 Text,  2|          Andersonian University. This turned the conversation on these
573 Text,  5|              to produce a speculum by turning with a machine that cut
574 Text,  2|                and apply two or three turns round the joint; as soon
575 Text,  7|             work by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who visited this country
576 Text,  6|            Glasgow. I think he did so twice. At one of these visits,
577 Text,  6|               stopping the other; but unanimously, and with harmony agreeing,
578 Text,  2|            was covered up; my brother uncovered it. The gentleman examined
579 Text,  2|        stopped him by saying, "Oh, he understands it; this is Mr. Watt." I
580 Intr    |               the only library in the United States that has the particular
581 Text,  2|              given to the Andersonian University. This turned the conversation
582         | unto
583 Text,  6|     cornerwise; to and fro; straight, upright, or downright; yet the pretended
584 Text,  6|                  forward or backward; upward or downward; circulary or
585 Text,  7|               water for their private uses, and to furnish rivers with
586 Intr    |         invention as the classic A.P. Usher, History of Mechanical Inventions (
587 Text,  1|       numerous, so various, and of so valuable a character, and were so
588 Text,  3|               of steam as long as the valves were left as first set;
589 Text,  5|                but he did not wish to venture on a patent one till he
590 Intr    |              the journal. In the text version of the article, the original
591 Text,  4|             cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it,
592 Text,  7|            Grand Duke of Tuscany, who visited this country in 1665, and
593 Text,  6|             so twice. At one of these visits, I see by a scroll of a
594 Text,  5|         Harrison's was going on with, viz., to produce a speculum
595 Intr    |               that has the particular volume in which the article is
596 Intr    |            rev.ed. 1954), p. 71; E.K. Von Fange, Professional Creativity (
597 Text,  6|            sending, by the Manchester waggon for Glasgow, a small box
598 Text,  2|               his younger days. ~ ~We waited upon him that night in Miss
599 Text,  4|         Glasgow. I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon.
600 Text,  6|           enquire for the box at Mrs. Walshes', Stirling Square. I shall
601 Text,  3|            demand. Then complaints of want of steam came and we had
602 Text,  3|           cylinder of double the size wanted, and cut off the steam at
603 Text,  4|          Street -- had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the
604 Text,  3|               they become smooth as a watch spring." These were his
605 Text,  7|          last-mentioned inventions, a Water-works is by many years experience
606 Text,  4|             in Newcomon's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to
607 Text,  5|              or '14. My brother and I went next morning and saw the
608 Text,  2|             to the air, and also kept wet; and at one of the large
609         | whose
610 Text,  4|        believe the Faculty would very willingly connect the invention with
611 Text,  3|         mathematical apparatus in the window, and asking him if that
612 Text,  5|           that engine, but he did not wish to venture on a patent one
613 Text,  4|           round the piston rod, as he wished to keep the air out of the
614 Intr    |              it does not end with the wonderful concluding sentence: "I
615 Text,  2|       absorption of water by the soft woody part inside, which expanded
616 Text,  6|           formed, that the Marquis of Worcester was the inventor of Newcomon'
617 Text,  3|               spring." These were his words. Then all the other parts
618 Text,  5|           preceded it, were done in a workshop off King Street, Glasgow.
619 Intr    |       difficult to find. According to WorldCat, the Library of Congress
620 Intr    |      describes Robert Hart as a "hero worshiper of Watt," no doubt based
621 Text,  3|              man down to see what was wrong. This was so expensive,
622 Text,  5|             door, as it was but a few yards from the north-east corner
623 Text,  1|              of them as if it were of yesterday. My brother and I had heard
624 Text,  2|   conversation put him in mind of his younger days. ~ ~We waited upon