Word: watt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Litchfield, 3b. s. s., Watt...
...Morse's pen, it cannot fail to be a literary event of the first importance, and an interesting contribution to our literature. The request of Judge Holmes that any persons having letters of Dr. Holmes will send them as loans to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, or to A. P. Watt, Esq., Hastings House, Norfolk street Strand, London, will undoubtedly bring out some delightful letters to American and English correspondents. - Boston Transcript...
...mind may become as unbalanced through over-practicalism as through over-idealism, and boast as we may of the triumphs of science in its application to commerce and the arts of life, it is still only the achievements of the imagination that stir the deeper enthusiasm of mankind. Watt and Stephenson are entitled to our highest respect, but Plato holds his own, and we feel that something greater and rarer went to the making of Hamlet than to the invention of the steamengine, or the turning of it into a draught horse. Men have always been willing...
...machine was invented to make use of the repellent force of steam. Later a high pressure engine was contrived by Leupold. Single acting atmospheric engines came into use in 1775. These were used entirely for pumping water, as rotary motion had not yet been discovered. In 1800 James Watt, whose memory will ever be held in high esteem both by scientific students and the world at large, invented the double-acting engine, operated by a sliding apparatus, which let the steam into opposite ends of the cylinder. Watt introduced what is termed the expansive work of steam. He contrived...
...action is taken it will leave only the two blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Sixteenth Streets of the plateau between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Park undisposed of. The remainder will be taken up by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has the Leake and Watt's Orphan Asylum tract, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth Streets, and by St. Luke's Hospital, which last week purchased the block between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Streets. The property consists of a great ledge which will afford excellent foundations...