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Excerpt from King for Himself
During this period, he tame attention to the steam engine, a machine of I was Very ignorant, and suggested that it might be to giving motion to wheel carriages, and th that purpose it would be most convenient to place the cylinder with its open end downwards, to avoid the necessity of using a working beam. The latter idea he had published some time before in the Universal Magazine - In consequence, I began a model with two cylinders, of tin plate, to act alternately by means of a acting on two pinions attached to the axes of the wheels of the carriage; but the model being slightly and inaccurately made, did not answer ex pectation. New dificulties presented themselves; both Mr Robison and myself had other avocations requiring our attention, and neither of us having then any idea of the true principles of the machine, the scheme was dropped. I however went on with some detached experiments on steam, until 1763, when I set about the matter more seriously, and discovered the principles upon which my improvements on the steam engine were founded.
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