 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...  Pure Mathematics - Page 312by Leslie Leland Locke - 1909 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1859 - 562 pages
...where the idea first struck you, and what led you to it? He said — " It was in the Green of Glasgow. I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street — had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | Glasgow Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1868 - 538 pages
...the idea first struck you, and what led you to it? He said — •" It was in the Green of Glasgow. I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street — had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Civil engineers - 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,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1880 - 596 pages
...afternoon across the Green of Glasgow the nieans of effecting it burst on him. " I had gone," he says, " to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had...Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was tliinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 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,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 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...was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far as the herd's house when the idea came into my mind that, as steam was an elastic body,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had got as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it... | |
 | Thomas Somerville - George Square (Glasgow, Scotland) - 1891 - 320 pages
...At length, all at once, the light burst upon him. But the discovery is best told in his own words. " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing house. I was thinking of the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam locomotives - 1896 - 618 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. 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... | |
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