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I FIND it difficult to add anything to the words of the many illustrious men who have addressed this society on previous anniversaries of the birth of James Watt, to the words of Sir Humphry Davy, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Jeffrey, and in later years to those of Joule, Scott-Russell, Preece, and Kelvin. This evening I should prefer to recall to your memories the fundamental principles of steam discovered by James Watt, and to endeavour to trace their application in the engines constructed by him and by the firm of Bolton and Watt, then in the more highly developed forms of compound, triple, and quadruple reciprocating engines, and, lastly, in steam turbines on land and sea.
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The Increased Expansion of Steam Attainable in Steam Trubines 1 . Nature 79, 502–506 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079502b0
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