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A. Ghosh
Fig. 13 Watt’s single-acting engine for pumping water for draining mines in 1788. The boiler C
is placed in an outhouse, and the steam passes to the cylinder E, which is maintained hot using a
separate steam jacket. F is the separate condenser and H is an air pump
developing a rotating engine, and his assistant Murdoch suggested a way out without
infringing upon the patent. It was the famous sun and planet gear system which has
baffled many students of history of Mechanical Engineering. Figure 14 shows Watt’s
original crank rocker mechanism and the alternate arrangement using sun and planet
gears. To automate various movements of different parts, mechanical means were
being devised and gradually the subject ‘kinematics and mechanisms’ started taking
shape as a part of mechanical engineering. Earlier it was in the domain of some mathematicians! Another problem related to mechanism science was solved by Watt. In
A. Ghosh
Fig. 13 Watt’s single-acting engine for pumping water for draining mines in 1788. The boiler C
is placed in an outhouse, and the steam passes to the cylinder E, which is maintained hot using a
separate steam jacket. F is the separate condenser and H is an air pump
developing a rotating engine, and his assistant Murdoch suggested a way out without
infringing upon the patent. It was the famous sun and planet gear system which has
baffled many students of history of Mechanical Engineering. Figure 14 shows Watt’s
original crank rocker mechanism and the alternate arrangement using sun and planet
gears. To automate various movements of different parts, mechanical means were
being devised and gradually the subject ‘kinematics and mechanisms’ started taking
shape as a part of mechanical engineering. Earlier it was in the domain of some mathematicians! Another problem related to mechanism science was solved by Watt. In