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THE subject on which I have now the honour to address you, the subject which is to occupy our attention to-day, is that of prime movers, that is to say, we are about to consider that class of machines which, to use the words of Tredgold, “enable the engineer to direct the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.”
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Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus: Section—Mechanics Prime Movers 1 . Nature 14, 140–141 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014140a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014140a0