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" Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication... "
Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society - Page 10
1859
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Lives of Boulton and Watt: Principally from the Original Soho Mss ...

Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 560 pages
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Eobert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washinghouse. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far...
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Lives of the Engineers: The steam-engine. Boulton and Watt

Samuel Smiles - 1874 - 460 pages
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Eobert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte-street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time,...
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A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine

Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pages
...series of modifications which at last gave to the world the modern type of steam-engine. He says : ' " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far...
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Readings from English History: From Cromwell to Balaklava

John Richard Green - 1879 - 238 pages
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far...
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Readings from English History, Volumes 1-3

John Richard Green - 1879 - 708 pages
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far...
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London Society, Volume 39

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1881 - 846 pages
...the steam-engine suddenly burst upon him ! ' I had gone,' he saya, ' to take a walk on a fine Sahbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte-street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time,...
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History of the English People, Volume 5

John Richard Green - 1882 - 504 pages
...afternoon across the green of Glasgow the means of effecting it burst on him. " I had gone," he says, " to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had...green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far...
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Stories of Invention Told by Inventors and Their Friends

Edward Everett Hale - 1885 - 320 pages
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after: — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far...
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Great Scotsmen: by the author of 'Great Englishmen'.

Scotsmen - 1885 - 152 pages
...afternoon he was taking a walk on the green, then a quiet grassy meadow used as a bleaching ground. " I had entered the green by the gate at the foot of the street and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time and had...
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Three-cornered Essays

Frederick Arnold - 1886 - 336 pages
...the idea of the improvement of the steam-engine suddenly burst upon him ! " I had gone," he says, " to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had...Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far...
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