The Steam Engine Familiarly Explained and Illustrated With an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators

CHAPTER IV.

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ENGINE OF JAMES WATT.

Advantages of the Atmospheric Engine over that of Captain Savery. -- It contained no new Principle. -- Papin's Engine. -- James Watt. -- Particulars of his Life. -- His first conceptions of the Means of economising Heat. -- Principle of his projected Improvements. 69