. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. sides will be exactly alike, there is no use for rejiresenting morethan one-half of the hull. The greatest caie and the nicest calculation mustbe used in order to render the form of the blocic an exact counterpart of theliuU of the future .shin, as in building tlie latter every part must be e/^n-6t!icted to conf calcn-liite the proper degree of imme


. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. sides will be exactly alike, there is no use for rejiresenting morethan one-half of the hull. The greatest caie and the nicest calculation mustbe used in order to render the form of the blocic an exact counterpart of theliuU of the future .shin, as in building tlie latter every part must be e/^n-6t!icted to conf calcn-liite the proper degree of immersion for the paddles or snl^w^rsi-^i for thoprojieller, as either of the two iO&f be used for piopuiwoiij VltU MjiJaerouaother minor detiiil&i 430 MX0HIKI6TS AKO EKOIKEEBS* DOFABTMElTIk. JAMES WATT. Anong the benefactors of humanity, whose labors have conduced to rendarthe latent forceg of nature subservient to the uses of mankind, the nanie otJames Watt holds preeminent rank. The following epitaph is inscribed on th«pedestal of Chantrys statue of Watt in Westminster Abbey; Not to perpetuatb a kame, which must endure while the peackfuXiabt8 flourish, but to show that mankind have learnt to honor th08hwho bk8t debekvb their gratitude, the king, his mihistibs, andmakt of the n0blk8 and commoners of the bkalm, raised this monu-MENT TO JAMES WATT, who directing the force of an orioinal genius, ZABLT KXEBCIBED IN PHILOSOPEaC RESEARCH, TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THH BTEAM ENGINE, enlarged the resources of his countbx, imcrkabed THX power of MAN, AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE ILLUSTRIOUSrOLLOWERS OF 8CIENCB AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD. BORS AT Oresnook, 1736. Died at Heathfield, in Staffordshire, 1819. In 1764, Watt constructed the first steam enpine of real p


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