Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-13

ton OF James Watt was in taking recti-
linear pressure and utilizing IL for rotary
motion.
Watt was the first Rotarian.
The steam boiler is simply tea kettle
with a college education.
Jamie did not know anything about
Pythagoras. He was Interested IN oat-
meal and in swimming off the dock at
Greenock and in running errands for
his mother.
when q thing is needed badly enough
the world evolves man who evolves
the idea. The time was ripe for the steam
engine.
The father OF James Watt was a ship
carpenter. For time ne served as dock
collector, and as clerk in the excise. AL
together he managed to be very poor.
which was a great advantage. so far as
Jamie was concerned.
Greenoch is the seaport OF the great
city Of Glasgow. From Glasgod to Green
och the Clyde runs full and level, a
wonderful river. along the banks OF which
more than half the steamboats, OF the
world are built
Greenoch built boats and made ma
chlnery when Watt was born there in
1885, ~
The lad worked in tho machine shops.
and among other things turned the
grindstohes and we find him later using
that fine old phrase about having his
nose on the grindstone"
Boys who worked in the machine
shops turned the emery wheels. 1t was
this very toll that caused him TO cast
around for a scheme TO turn that tarna-
ton grindstone.
He was only Is years old when he saw
the agitation Of the cover Of his mothers
tea kettle. q
He was modest enough 10 deny that ms
was the inventor of the steam engine.
Watt was so rich In mental assets that
he gave everybody else credit.
In nature there is no duplicate OF the
wheel We hear of the hoop-snake that
takes its tail IN SIS mouth and rolls
away in safety; but no one has even seen
the hoop snake except excited colored
men or those much given to alcoholic
exhilaration.
The wheel comes down to us from the
days OF the Egyptians. TO make that tea
kettle turn the wheel was the achieve
ment Of James Watt
In 17e5 Watt made a steam engine OF
the piston rod variety. The pressure OF
the steam In the cylinder pushed the
piston rod back and forwsrd and this en-
CINE ran and turned a goodly ffywheel
Watt was then "a years Of age. Besides
working in the machine shop he had at
tended night school IN Glasgow, and had
made good deal OF progress in the sub
ject OF physics and the history OF
mechanics,
Archimedes was his patron saint This
steam engine that Watt made was shown
in the University Of Glasgow.
Watt was a very superior man. Not
only did he have the inventive genius, but
he had q personality which commanded
respect, even from boyhood. In addition
to this. he had the Scotch idea of econ
orny. He took a theatrical idea and made
Of it a practical working betternent for
humanity.
In iT74 he made an engine which had suf-
fioient power when he put belt on his
flywheel and attached this 10 shafting 70
turn a series Of wheels.
Success was then assured. II is all
right to make an engine to run it's owr
machinery. hut when you have made an
engine thet win net only run it's own ma
chlnery, but also dozens Of others. you
have achieved.
The invention Of James Watt. evolved
in l774-two years before the American
Declaration OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in IT.
self a declaration of Independence from Z
vast amount Of dead lift and pull, which
before this. human hands and human
muscles had performed.
The first law that Watt discovered wa
that q cubic yard of steam will lift on'
ton foot high.
The second law is that it takes only I
little more fuel 10 evaporate q cubic incl
OF water at pressure Of 900 pounds q
the square inch than it does to evaporat
in the open atmosphere.
Third. the gain in power depends upoI
the number Of times that steam is per
mitted TO expand.
Fourth. horsepower is equal 10 $500
pounds lifted one foot in one minute.
Watt, after inventing his engine. In
vented pop-valve. which avoided undu
pressure and the danger OF explosion
Then he invented the governor whic
kept his engine from running away wit
itself.
Next he invented the glass waite
gauge. which shows plainly the amour
OF water in the boiler.
Il il good 70 know that all inventor
do not die poor. Watt became rich. an
was accorded more medals than he kne'
what 20 DO with
some Of these he melted up an
analysed In order TO see what the mets
was
There are portraits Of Watt painted b
Sir Joshue Reynolds. by ROmney; b
West Of American and by Gannsborougl
his face was strong. earnest, sensitive
handsome-marked by divine individu
atty.