...levers both by pushing and by drawing." Of this important improvement the humble-minded man writes, " Though I am not over anxious after fame, yet I am...any other mechanical invention I have ever made." The engine was now, for all ordinary purposes, perfect, and its reputation had next to be established....

...other clumsy contrivances previously employed. " Though I am not over-anxious after fame," said he, " yet I am more proud of the parallel motion than of any other mechanical invention I have ever made." And who is there that bus not looked with admiration upon the dexterous application of the governor...

...of the invention of another person. ' Though 1 am not over anxious after fame,' he wrote in 1808, ' yet I am more proud of the parallel motion than of any other mechanical contrivance I have ever made.' In spite of the outward success which attended Watt, his disposition...

...take place ; and from this the construction, afterwards called " the parallel motion, was derived. * * Though I am not " over anxious after fame, yet I am...any other mechanical invention I have ever " made." In Mr. Watt's Appendix to ' Robison on Steam and Steam' engines,' he mentions that " the invention...

...specification also included the beautiful invention of the parallel motion, of which Watt himself said, " Though I am not over anxious after fame, yet I am...any other mechanical invention I have ever made." Watt was led to meditate this contrivance by the practical inconvenience which he experienced in communicating...

...embodied in his patent of 178-t, which included the beautiful parallel motion, of which he said : " Though I am not over anxious after fame, yet I am...motion than of any other mechanical invention I have етег made." That the very obvious application of steam power as a moving agent on land and water...

...accessory improvements must be noticed Watt's ingenious parallel motion, of which he used to say, " Though I am not over anxious after fame, yet I am more proud of parallel motion than of any other mechanical invention I ever made." By this he attempted to remedy...

...view of the invention of another person. 'Though I am not over-anxious after fame,' he wrote in 1808, 'yet I am more proud of the Parallel Motion than of any other mechanical contrivance I have ever made.' Watt's career as a mechanician, in connection with Mr. Bolton, at the...

...take place, and from this the construction, afterwards called the parallel motion, was derived. .... Though I am not over anxious after fame, yet I am...more proud of the parallel motion than of any other invention I have ever made." Interesting as this letter is, a closer examination of it reveals a deficiency...

...view of the invention of another person. "Though I am not over anxious after fame," he wrote in 1808, "yet I am more proud of the parallel motion than of any otber mechanical contrivance I have ever madeA In spite of the outward success which attended Watt,...