The limitations of the steam engine
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William Dennis Marks
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Article
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1880
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Perhaps there is no more unsafi, proceeding in science than t,, attempt to predict tile limitation ,,f the development of am" of its results. Yet the theory of tim steam eng'ine has so thr been developed as to seem to permit us to mark out lhc boundaries of its pr ,~'r,s.with tolerable accuracy. Xt