What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I do not doubt that the same thought may have occurred to him, as well as to others, without having learnt it elsewhere.


Denis Papin, as quoted by Bernard Forest de Bélidor, Architecture Hydraulique Vol.2, p. 309 Tr. Patrick Muirhead, The Life of James Watt (1859) p. 145

Denis Papin Quotes

What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I ...

What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I ...

What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I ...

What I say here is not to give room for believing, that Mr. Savery, who has since published this invention at London, is not actually the inventor. I ...