Thomas Savery cytaty

Thomas Savery – angielski inżynier wojskowy i wynalazca.

W 1698 Savery zbudował parowy podnośnik wody, jeden z pierwszych na świecie silników parowych. Ulepszył urządzenia sterowe statków. Wprowadził jednostkę mocy koń parowy, która po wprowadzeniu układu SI zastąpiona została kilowatem. W 1702 roku Savery i Thomas Newcomen założyli fabrykę podnośników parowych.

Pierwszym wynalazkiem Savery'ego był pomysł łódki, która mogłaby pływać w czasie ciszy morskiej. Jednak pomysłu tego nigdy nie udało mu się zrealizować, ponieważ brytyjska marynarka nie była nim zainteresowana. Wikipedia

✵ 1650 – 1715

Thomas Savery: Cytaty po angielsku

“Should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a very little time; insomuch that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the engine in half an hour.”

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Thomas Savery

Źródło: The Miner's Friend; or, An Engine to Raise Water by Fire, 1702, pp. 10-11
Kontekst: Should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a very little time; insomuch that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the labours of
Your real Friend and humble Servant,
THOMAS SAVERY