A history of the growth of the steam-engine . after condensation of the steam in n,and the operation of expulsion is repeated. This machine is evidently a retrogression, and Papin,after having earned the honor of having invented the firststeafti-engine of the typical form which has since becomeso universally applied, forfeited that credit by his evidentignorance of its superiority over existing devices, and byattempting unsuccessfully to perfect the inferior device ofanother inventor. Subsequently, Papin made an attempt to apply thesteam-engine to the propulsion of vessels, the account ofwhich
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . after condensation of the steam in n,and the operation of expulsion is repeated. This machine is evidently a retrogression, and Papin,after having earned the honor of having invented the firststeafti-engine of the typical form which has since becomeso universally applied, forfeited that credit by his evidentignorance of its superiority over existing devices, and byattempting unsuccessfully to perfect the inferior device ofanother inventor. Subsequently, Papin made an attempt to apply thesteam-engine to the propulsion of vessels, the account ofwhich will be given in the chapter on Steam-Navigation. Again disappointed, Papin once more visited England, 54 THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. to renew his acquaintance with the savans of the RoyalSociety ; but Boyle had died during the period which Pa-pin had spent in Germany, and the unhappy and disheart-ened inventor and philosopher died in 1810, without havingseen any one of his many devices and ingenious inventionsa practical CHAPTER II. THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A TRAIN OF MECHANISM. The introduction of new Inventions seemeth to be the very chief ofall human Actions. The Benefits of new Inventions may extend to allMankind universally; but the Good of political Achievements can respectbut some particular Cantons of Men; these latter do not endure above afew Ages, the former forever. Inventions make all Men happy, withouteither Injury or Damage to any one single Person. Furthermore, newInventions are, as it were, new Erections and Imitations of Gods ownWorks.—Bacon. The Modern Type, as Developed by NEwcoMEif,Beighton, and Smeaton. At the beginning of the eighteenth century every ele-ment of the modern type of steam-engine had been sepa-rately invented and practically applied. The character ofatmospheric pressure, and of the pressure of gases, had be-come understood. The nature of a vacuum was known,and the method of obtaining it by the displacement of theair by stea
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