53 examples of watt's in sentences

With Watt's utilization of steam vapour as a motive power, man suddenly passed into a new and portentous chapter of his varied history.

When the framers of the Constitution met in high convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, a Connecticut Yankee, John Fitch, was then also working in Philadelphia upon his steamboat; but twenty years were to pass before the prow of the Clermont was to part the waters of the Hudson, and nearly a half century before transportation was to be revolutionized by the utilization of Watt's invention in the locomotive.

Another friend of Vincent Novello's uses the same couplet (from Watt's Divine Songs for Children, Song XXVIII., "For the Lord's Day, Evening") in the description of glees by the old cricketers at the Bat and Ball on Broad Halfpenny Down, near HambledonI refer to John Nyren, author of The Young Cricketer's Tutor, 1833.

Q.What is Boulton and Watt's rule for finding the dimensions of the fly-wheel?

A.Boulton and Watt's rule for finding the dimensions of the fly-wheel is as follows:Multiply 44,000 times the length of the stroke in feet by the square of the diameter of the cylinder in inches, and divide the product by the square of the number of revolutions per minute multiplied by the cube of the diameter of the fly-wheel in feet.

But upon the whole the steam engine of the present day is substantially the engine of Watt; and he who perfectly understands the operation of Watt's engine, will have no difficulty in understanding the operation of any of the numerous varieties of engines since introduced.

For their land engines they still retain Mr. Watt's standard of power, which makes the actual and the nominal power identical; and an actual horse power is the equivalent of a cubic foot of water raised into steam every hour.

A.It is Boulton and Watt's method; but some very satisfactory boilers have been made by allowing a proportion of 0.6 of a square foot of fire grate per nominal horse power, and making the sectional area of the flue at the largest part 1/7th of the area of fire grate, and at the smallest part, where it enters the chimney, 1/11th of the area of the fire grate.

Boulton and Watt's 2 horse power wagon boiler has 30 square feet of surface, and the flue is 18 inches high above the level of the boiler bottom, by 9 inches wide; while their 12 horse wagon boiler has 118 square feet of heating surface, and the dimensions of the flue similarly measured are 36 inches by 13 inches.

In Boulton and Watt's wagon boilers, the sectional area of the flue in square inches per square foot of heating surface is 5.4 in the two horse boiler; in the three horse it is 4.74; in the four horse, 4.35; six horse, 3.75; eight horse, 4.33; ten horse, 3.96; twelve horse, 3.63; eighteen horse, 3.17; thirty horse, 2.52; and in the forty-five horse boiler, 2.05 square inches.

In Watt's engines about one tenth was reckoned as loss in filling the waste spaces at the top and bottom of the cylinder, making 1872 cubic feet as the quantity consumed per hour without this waste; and in modern engines the waste at the ends of the cylinder is inconsiderable.

Q.What is Boulton and Watt's rule for fly wheels?

Q.What was Mr. Watt's rule for the connecting rod?

Q.What was Mr. Watt's rule for the main beams of his engines?

Q.What was Mr. Watt's rule for the necks of his crank shafts?

Q.What was Mr. Watt's rule for the pitch of wheels?

Chimneys of land boilers, Boulton and Watt's rule for proportions of; of marine boilers.

Packing for stuffing box of Watt's engine.

Smoke burning furnaces, Williams's argand; Prideaux's; Boulton and Watt's dead plate; revolving grate; Juckes's; Maudslay's; Hall's, Coupland's, Godson's, Robinson's, Stevens's, Hazeldine's, &c. "Snake" locomotive.

Valve gear of Watt's engine, action of. Valve gear of oscillating engine.

But this is too philosophical a strain for noticing a child's booka little volume that is among books what a child is in human nature"man in a small letter;" and such is Mrs. Watt's "New Year's Gift."

Messrs. Boulton and Watt's manufactory for steam engines; an extensive soap work, belonging to Messrs. Adkins and Nock; a manufactory of brass, under the denomination of the Smethwick brass company; and also one of British crown glass, belonging to Thomas Shutt and Co.

The angular velocity is regulated by a Watt's governor, which secures an isochronism of the motion independently of the charge.

See Watt's Bibliotheca Brit., vol. iii.

After all the trouble with my seals, when, emulating Dr. Watt's Busy Bee, so neat I spread my wax,' it was beginning to dawn upon me that clairvoyant eyes, quite as much as our own, require Heaven's broad sunshine on black ink and white paper.

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