Category: History - Modern (1750+)
_In an inventive tour de force that seldom, if ever, has been equalled for its brilliance and far-reaching consequences, James Watt radically altered the steam engine not only by adding a separate condenser but by creating a whole new family of linkages. His approach was large...
_In an inventive tour de force that seldom, if ever, has been equalled for its brilliance and far-reaching consequences, James Watt radically altered the steam engine not only b...
3. Chapter 3[Footnote 42: Charles-Nicholas Peaucellier, "Note sur une question de geometrie de compas," _Nouvelles Annales de mathematiques_, 1873, ser. 2, vol. 12, pp. 71-78. A sketch of M...
4. Chapter 4[Footnote 71: Willis, _op. cit._ (footnote 21). Through the kindness of its owner (Mr. Warren G. Ogden of North Andover, Massachusetts), I have had access to Willis' own copy of...
5. Chapter 5A translation of the work of Lanz and Betancourt[92] under the title _Analytical Essay on the Construction of Machines_, was published about 1820 at London by Rudolph Ackermann...
2. Chapter 2It was about a year later that the straight-line linkage[17] was thought out. "I have started a new hare," Watt wrote to his partner. "I have got a glimpse of a method of causin...
6. Chapter 6It appears that in the early 1940's the general classroom treatment of accelerations was at a level well below the existing knowledge of the subject, for in a series of articles...