 | 1859 - 562 pages
...my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication teas made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...it. and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if I used a jet... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 560 pages
...notable discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Eobert Hart, many years after : — " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....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,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 556 pages
...discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Robert Hart, many years after :— house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had...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,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 562 pages
...discovery is best told in his own words, as related to Mr. Kobert Hart, many years after : — I28 house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had...and might be there condensed without cooling; the cvlinder. I then saw that I must °ret * rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 762 pages
...into my mind, that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and if a connection were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. ... I had not got further than the Golf-house, when the whole thing was arranged in my mind."... | |
 | 1907 - 600 pages
...the ideacame into my iniud that as steam vas au elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, arid that if a communication were made between the cylinder...an exhausted vessel it would rush into it and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked farther than the golf house when... | |
 | Glasgow Archaeological Society - 1868 - 538 pages
...my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get quit of the condensed steam and injection water, if I used a jet... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1874 - 460 pages
...walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte-street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking...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,... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pages
...series of modifications which at last gave to the world the modern type of steam-engine. He says : ' " I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon....it, and might be there condensed without cooling the 1 " Reminiscences of James Watt," Robert Hart ; " Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society,"... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 708 pages
...rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,2 it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.3 I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection- water if I used a jet,... | |
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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... 
