[modeleng] Re: scottish inventions

I believe that Watt made the improvement ot Newcomen's engine, by fitting 
the separate condensor, thus saving a huge amount of fuel.    Newcomen's 
first successful engine worked in 1712.

Watt and Boulton produced a successful engine with a condensor in about 
1773.

Cheers!   Hubert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kenny" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: [modeleng] scottish inventions


> Hi
> and thanks for your comment not bad for such a small country it would be
> even more sad without the inventions please refer to the history of steam
> and you will find read below  and this has never been disputed  just as 
> well
> we had radar don't you think
>
> The Steam Engine
> Invented by James Watt, instrumental in powering the Industrial Revolution
> in the Eighteenth Century. His engine was not mobile, but was fixed in
> position. Soon it was being built and used in mining, to pull coal carts 
> up
> to the pithead. Mine manager, John Blenkinsop, put one of these steam
> boilers on wheels so that it could carry the coal further. This came to 
> the
> attention of George Stephenson who was also a mining engineer. Stephenson
> took the idea a stage further with his invention of the steam locomotive.
>
> Kenny
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ian ridley" <ridleyian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:17 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: it's a bit quiet here...
>
>
>>
>> It's very sad that a country's entire inventions catalogue can be fitted
>> ontoone page!
>>
>> P.S. the steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen, an Englishman from
>> Dartmouth.
>>
>> Regards to all
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From:  "kenny" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To:  modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To:  <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject:  [modeleng] Re: it's a bit quiet here...
>> Date:  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:19:37 +0100
>>>   .
>>>Wha's Like Us - Damn Few And They're A' Deid
>>>
>>>The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his
>>>national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles 
>>>Macintosh
>>>from Glasgow, Scotland. En route to his office he strides along the
>>>English
>>>lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland.
>>>
>>>He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop 
>>>of
>>>Dreghorn, Scotland, arrives at the station and boards a train, the
>>>forerunner of which was a steam engine, invented by James Watt of
>>>Greenock,
>>>Scotland. He then pours himself a cup of coffee from a thermos flask, the
>>>latter invented by Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth.
>>>
>>>At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by
>> James
>>>Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland.
>>>
>>>During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell,
>> born
>>>in Edinburgh, Scotland.
>>>
>>>At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by
>>>Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith of Dumfries, Scotland.
>>>
>>>He watches the news on his television, an invention of John Logie Baird 
>>>of
>>>Helensburgh, Scotland, and hears an item about the U.S. Navy, founded by
>>>John Paul Jones of Kirkbean, Scotland.
>>>
>>>He has by now been reminded too much of Scotland and in desperation he
>> picks
>>>up the Bible only to find that the first man mentioned in the good book 
>>>is
>> a
>>>Scot, King James VI, who authorised its translation.
>>>
>>>Nowhere can an Englishman turn to escape the ingenuity of the Scots.
>>>
>>>He could take to drink, but the Scots make the best in the world.
>>>
>>>He could take a rifle and end it all but the breech-loading rifle was
>>>invented by Captain Patrick of Pitfours, Scotland.
>>>
>>>If he escapes death, he might then find himself on an operating table
>>>injected with penicillin, which was discovered by Alexander Fleming of
>>>Darvel, Scotland, and given an anaesthetic, which was discovered by Sir
>>>James Young Simpson of Bathgate, Scotland.
>>>
>>>Out of the anaesthetic, he would find no comfort in learning he was as
>>>safe
>>>as the Bank of England founded by William Paterson of Dumfries, Scotland.
>>>
>>>Perhaps his only remaining hope would be to get a transfusion of guid
>>>Scottish blood which would entitle him to ask "Wha's Like Us".
>>>  ALSO HAVE A WEE LOOK  HERE
>>>http://www.magicdragon.com/Wallace/thingscot.html
>>>KENNY
>>>SKYE
>>>
>>>
>>>
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