Language Through Nature 



made up his mind that when the steam in the 

 kettle could not get out fast enough through the 

 spout it pushed the cover up so that some of it 

 might get out that way. He thought that steam 

 must be ver}^ strong to lift the cover, and wondered 

 if it could lift other things. He tried to make it 

 do so and at last he found a way. A machine was 

 made in which steam was used to push and lift 

 heavy things, and it was called a steam engine. 

 At first this machine did not work very well, but 

 after a long time a much better way to make it was 

 found by a man named James Watt. He is often 

 called the inventor of the steam engine. 



It is many years since James Watt lived and 

 worked, and since his time many new things have 

 been found out about steam engines and the work 

 they can be made to do. They are now used on 

 land and on water, on farms and in cities. Where 

 animals, wind, and water were once used to lift or 

 push or pull, the steam engine is now usually found 

 doing the work in a much quicker and better way. 



Tell about some of the work you have seen steam 

 engines doing. 



Make pictures or cuttings of locomotive engines 

 and steamboats. 



