--- title: "1 Steam Engine Quotes By James Watt" description: "1 Steam Engine quotes by James Watt. Plus more from James Watt and more Steam Engine sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/231/james-watt-99459_invention_i-had-entered-the-green-of-glasgow-by-th_2417356.jpg" --- > [ “I had entered the Green \[of Glasgow\] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-watt/i-had-entered-the-green-of-glasgow-by-the-gate-at-the-foot-of/) James Watt [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/231/james-watt-99459_invention_i-had-entered-the-green-of-glasgow-by-th_2417356.jpg) ## More by James Watt > [We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-watt/we-don-t-have-to-protect-the-environment-the-second-coming-is-at-hand/) James Watt > [ “I had entered the Green \[of Glasgow\] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-watt/i-had-entered-the-green-of-glasgow-by-the-gate-at-the-foot-of/) James Watt ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/steam-engine/james-watt/#itemlist", "name": "1 Steam Engine Quotes By James Watt", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection water if I used a jet, as in Newcomen 's engine. Two ways of doing this occurred to me. First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an outlet could be got at the depth of 35 or 36 feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. The second was to make the pump large enough to extract both water and air. ... 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