. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ual movement byhead of steam, was, within ten years, totake instruction—as were England andGermany likewise—from America. OliverEvans, of Philadelphia, was the teacherand his non-condensing engine of 1779the object lesson. Of his fellow dreamers in England wasa timid, non-self-assertive, but far-seeingand intelligent man—William to the determents to a forcefulprogress through the unfortunate traitsspecified, was the further misfortune ofhis association as an assistant to JamesWatt at the latters Soho factory. It was Murdochs bread and bu
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ual movement byhead of steam, was, within ten years, totake instruction—as were England andGermany likewise—from America. OliverEvans, of Philadelphia, was the teacherand his non-condensing engine of 1779the object lesson. Of his fellow dreamers in England wasa timid, non-self-assertive, but far-seeingand intelligent man—William to the determents to a forcefulprogress through the unfortunate traitsspecified, was the further misfortune ofhis association as an assistant to JamesWatt at the latters Soho factory. It was Murdochs bread and butter tokeep his job. He was an adherent ofhigh pressure. Watt, his chief, was theupholder of the low pressure principle,and would have none other than abjectservility to his views by those under him,and whatever Murdoch did had to bedone surreptitiously. Slipping out intothe darkness one fateful evening with hishalf-sized working model, Murdoch hadthe time of his life. Not exactly the sortof a time one of his exceptionally retiring.
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