A text-book of physics, largely experimentalOn the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." . FIG. * From Galloways Steam-engine. From A T THE STEAM-ENGINE. 389 Smeatons engine, James Watt, instrument-maker to theUniversity of Glasgow, was employed to repair one. Hesaw the great possibilities of steam-power, and devoted theremainder of his life to the construction and improvementof the steam-engine. The enormous advances which hemade are to be seen by comparing his own perfected engine(about 1800), shown in Fig. 215, with the rude contrivance(Fig. 21

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A text-book of physics, largely experimentalOn the Harvard college "Descriptive list of elementary physical experiments." . FIG. * From Galloways Steam-engine. From A T THE STEAM-ENGINE. 389 Smeatons engine, James Watt, instrument-maker to theUniversity of Glasgow, was employed to repair one. Hesaw the great possibilities of steam-power, and devoted theremainder of his life to the construction and improvementof the steam-engine. The enormous advances which hemade are to be seen by comparing his own perfected engine(about 1800), shown in Fig. 215, with the rude contrivance(Fig. 214) which found the steam-engine an instrument of local and

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