 | Robert N. Webb - 1972 - 136 Seiten
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 | 1962 - 744 Seiten
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 | Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 Seiten
...of Boulton & Watt firmly on the road to fame and fortune. No wonder Watt wrote in 1808, Though lam not over anxious after fame, yet I am more proud of...than of any other mechanical invention I have ever made.58 5 The devil of rotations 'Look round the metropolis', exclaims Sir Humphrey Davy, 'our towns,... | |
 | Eugene S. Ferguson - 1994 - 264 Seiten
...(Washington, 1963), pp. 185-231, esp. 193-198. Years after developing the parallel motion, Watt told his son: "Though I am not over anxious after fame, yet I am...any other mechanical invention I have ever made." (ibid., pp. 197-198). This drawing is from John Farey, Treatise on the Steam Engine (London, 1827),... | |
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Though I am not over-anxious after fame, yet I am more proud of the parallel motion than of any other mechanical invention I have ever made 
