A history of the growth of the steam-engine . CHAPTER IV. THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civiliza-tion and happiness of our species.—MiCAnLAY. The Second Peeiod of Application— on Raileoads. Inteodfctoey.—The commencement of the nineteenthcentury found the modem steam-engine fully developed in. Tio. 40.—The First , 1S25. all its principal features, and fairly at work in many depart-ments of industry. The genius of Worcester, and Morland,and Savery, and Desaguliers, had, in the first period of the STEAM-
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . CHAPTER IV. THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. Those projects which abridge distance have done most for the civiliza-tion and happiness of our species.—MiCAnLAY. The Second Peeiod of Application— on Raileoads. Inteodfctoey.—The commencement of the nineteenthcentury found the modem steam-engine fully developed in. Tio. 40.—The First , 1S25. all its principal features, and fairly at work in many depart-ments of industry. The genius of Worcester, and Morland,and Savery, and Desaguliers, had, in the first period of the STEAM-LOCOMOTION ON RAILEOADS. I45 application of the power of steam to useful work, effected abeginning which, looked upon from a point of view whichexhibits its importance as the first step toward the wonder-ful results to-day familiar to every one, appears in its truelight, and entitles those great men to even greater honorthan has been accorded them. The results actually accom-plished, however, were absolutely insignificant in compari-son with those which marked the period of developmentjust described. Yet even the work of Watt and of his con-temporaries was but a mere prelude to the marvellous ad-vances made in the succeeding period, to which we are nowcome, and, in extent and importance, was insignificant incomparison with that accomplished by their successors i
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