Watt

(noun.) Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).

(noun.) a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm.

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• Heating by the circulation of hot water through pipes was also originated or revived during the 18th century, and a short time before Watt's circulation of steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Watt and his contemporaries regarded heat as a material substance called Phlogiston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Men began to doubt whether the new engine could ever be made to accomplish what Watt claimed for it, but although he realized the difficulties the inventor would not allow himself to doubt. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Watt knew that what he wanted was a plan by which the cylinder could always be kept as hot as the steam that went into it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Orders began to flow in, and Watt had his hands full in traveling about the country superintending the erection of his steam-engines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Sir Leicester is no joke by any means, says Watt, and I humbly ask his pardon. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Boulton was a business genius, and Watt now found that he could leave financial matters entirely to his care, and busy himself solely with his engine. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Watt had already done much more, for in trying to find how the engine might be made of greater service he had discovered at the outset the principle of the latent heat of steam. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Watt saw that the alternate heating and cooling of the cylinder made the engine work slowly and caused an excessive consumption of steam. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In many respects Stephenson was like Watt. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Watt’s patents of 1769 and 1784 contemplated the application of his steam engines to carriages running on land. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The meters commonly used measure the amperes, volts, and time automatically, and register the electric power supplied in watt hours. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Papin in 1695, Savary in 1698, and Newcomen in 1705, were the pioneers of Watt, and gave to him a good working basis. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The Six Ordinary Powers Alone Used until the Time of Watt. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Then it happened that in 1764 a small Newcomen engine that belonged to the University of Glasgow was given to James Watt, an instrument-maker at the university, to be repaired. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Halleck did not know that they had already been delivered into the hands of Major Watts, Confederate commissioner for the exchange of prisoners. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It might be well to explain that the lamp-socket appliances are those operating from the light socket and are built to carry not over 660 watts of current. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If that stove is equipped with a single heat, you will be using the full 600 watts whenever the switch is on. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The lamps were partly of the horseshoe filament paper-carbon type, and partly bamboo-filament lamps, and were of an efficiency of 95 to 100 watts per 16 c. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Let us suppose that you are operating one of the small disc stoves and that the stove will carry 600 watts of current. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The watt then would be the volt multiplied by the ampere; thus 500 watts would be 10 amperes at 50 volts, or 50 amperes at 10 volts. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The space that a list of the new chemical products of this age and their description would fill, has already been indicated by reference to the great dictionary of Watts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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