 | 1824 - 528 pàgines
...work, that Professor Robison " threw 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pàgines
...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,...this engine, in the fourth article of my patent, in 1769; and, again, in the specification of another patent, in the year 1784, together with a mode of... | |
 | Nicholas Wood - 1832 - 664 pàgines
...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,...this engine, in the fourth article of my patent, in 1769; and, again, in the specification of another patent, in the year 1784, together with a mode of... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1835 - 938 pàgines
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam-engine to the moving of wheelcarriages, and to other purposes ¡ but the scheme was soon abandoned on his going abroad." In the patent granted to Mr. Watt in 1784, he gave an account of the adaptation of his mechanism to... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1836 - 942 pàgines
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam-engine to the moving of wheelcarriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was soon abandoned on his going abroad." In the patent granted to Mr. Watt in 1784, he gave an account of the adaptation of his mechanism to... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1837 - 236 pàgines
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam-engine to the moving of wheelcarriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was soon abandoned on his going abroad." In the patent granted to Mr. Watt in 1784, he gave an account of the adaptation of his mechanism to... | |
 | John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pàgines
...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 not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad. " About the year 1761 or 1762, I Fig. 34.... | |
 | William Newton - 1855 - 466 pàgines
...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 not matured, and was soon abandoned on his going abroad." At this period he was busily engaged in striving... | |
 | Francis Trevithick - 1872 - 434 pàgines
...time threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam-engine to the moving of wheelcarriages, and to other purposes ; but the scheme was soon abandoned on his going abroad.' "In the patent granted to Mr. Watt in 1781, he gave an account of the adaptation of his mechanism to... | |
 | William Fletcher (mechanical engineer.) - 1891 - 356 pàgines
...afterwards Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. He, in 1759, threw out the idea of applying the power of the steam engine to...the scheme was soon abandoned on his going abroad." It has been truly stated that Watt, at the time of the above conversation, was more ignorant than his... | |
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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... 
