 My attention was first directed in the year 1759 to the subject of steam-engines, by the late Dr Robison, then a student in the University of Glasgow, and nearly of my own age. He at that time threw out an idea of applying the power of the steam-engine...  A System of Mechanical Philosophy - Էջ 113John Robison - 1822 - 50 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1824 - 528 էջ
...out to Mr. Watt the idea of applying fhe power of the steam-engine to the moving of wheel carriages, and to other purposes, but the scheme was not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad." It is, further, quite evident, that but for the great number of chemical discoveries which were made... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 1825 - 350 էջ
...the subject of steamengines, by the late Dr. Robison, then a student in the university of Glasgow, and nearly of my own age. He, at that time, threw...wheel-carriages, and to other purposes; but the scheme was soon abandoned, on his going abroad." Mr. WATT, it appears, soon after made an experiment with steam... | |
 | 1825 - 490 էջ
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam engine to the moving of wheel carriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad. " ' In 1701, or 1 7ii-,', I made some experiments on the force of steam in Papin's digester, and formed... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - 1826 - 250 էջ
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam engine to the moving of wheel carriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad." " In 1761 or 1762 I made some experiments on the force of steam in a Papin's digester, and formed a... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - 1828 - 236 էջ
...of applying the power of the steam engine to the moving of wheel carnages, and to other purposes 5 but the scheme was not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad." " In 1761 or 1762 I made some experiments on the force of steam in a Papin's digester, and formed a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 էջ
...the subject of steam engines, by the late Dr. Hobison, then a student in the university of Glasgow, and nearly of my own age. He, at that time, threw out an idea of applying the power of the steam engine to the moving of wheel-carriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was soon abandoned,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 էջ
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the Steam Engine to the moving of wheel carriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad. "In 1761 or 1762, I made some experiments on the force of steam in a Papin's digester, and formed a... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - 1829 - 890 էջ
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam engine to the moving of wheel carriages, and to other purposes; but the scheme was not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad. " In 1761, or 1762, I made some experiments on the force of steam in a Papin's digester, and formed... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 1832 - 664 էջ
...the subject of steam-engines, by the late Dr. Robinson, then a student in the University of Glasgow, and nearly of my own age. He, at that time, threw...wheel-carriages, and to other purposes; but the scheme was soon abandoned, on his going abroad." Mr. WATT, it appears, soon after made an experiment with steam... | |
 | Alexander Gordon - 1832 - 236 էջ
...Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh,) then a student at Glasgow, threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam-engine to the moving of wheel-carriages. In the year 1772, Oliver Evans, an ingenious American citizen, then apprenticed to a wheelwright, laboured... | |
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