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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-17

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780483269897

Excerpt from The Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor; For 1842 Young Watt early showed a talent for mechanical art. He first made children's toys, and constructed a small electrical machine; even steam was amatter of his early experiments. Sitting one evening at the tea-table With his aunt, Mrs. Muir head, she thus addressed him: James Watt! 1 never saw such an idle boy! Take a book, or employ ourself usefully: for the last hour you ave not a oken one word, but taken ofi' the lid of t at kettle, and put it on again holding now a cup, and now a silver spoon over the steam; watching how it rises from the spout, and catching and connecting the drops it falls into. Are you not ashamed of spending your time in this way 7 Little did the anxious aunt imagine that her idle little relative was making experiments on the condensation of steam, and that by similar inquiries he would hereafter earn an ex tensive and well-deserved celebrity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.