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" Papin's digester, and formed a species of steam-engine by fixing upon it a syringe, one-third of an inch diameter, with a solid piston, and furnished also with a cock to admit the steam from the digester, or shut it off at pleasure, as well as to open... "
The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions - Page 363
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A System of Mechanical Philosophy, Volume 2

John Robison - 1822 - 766 pages
...species of steam-engine by fixing upon it a syringe one-third of an inch diameter, with a solid, phton, and furnished also with a cock to admit the steam...steam contained in the syringe might escape. When th« communication between the digester and syringe was opened, the steam entered the syringe, and...
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A System of Mechanical Philosophy, Volume 2

John Robison - 1822 - 766 pages
...upon it a syringe one-third of an inch diameter, with a solid piston, and furnished also with a cork to admit the steam from the digester, or shut it off...syringe might escape. When the communication between the digester and syringe was opened, tha steam entered the syringe, and by its action upon the piston raised...
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A System of Mechanical Philosophy, Volume 2

John Robison - 1822 - 736 pages
...steam from the digesUr, or shut it oil' at pleuure, as well as to open a communication from the iuside of the syringe to the open air, by which the steam...might escape. When the communication between, the digester and syringe was opened, the steam entered the syringe, and by its action upon the piston raised...
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 2

1825 - 490 pages
...furnished also with a cock to admit the •team from the digester, or shut it off at pleasure, as well a* to open a communication from the inside of the syringe...syringe might escape. When the communication between the syringe and digester wan opened, the steam entered the syringe, and by its action upon the piston raised...
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Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam Engine

Robert Stuart - 1829 - 372 pages
...abandoned on his going abroad. "In 1761 or 1762, I made some experiments on the force of steam in a Papin's digester, and formed a species of Steam Engine, by...syringe might escape. When the communication between the syringe and digester was opened, the steam entered the syringe, and by its action upon the piston raised...
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History and Progress of the Steam Engine: With a Practical Investigation of ...

Elijah Galloway - 1829 - 890 pages
...on his going abroad. " In 1761, or 1762, I made some experiments on the force of steam in a Papin's digester, and formed a species of steam engine, by...action upon the piston, raised a considerable weight (fifteen pounds) with which it was loaded. When this was raised as high as was thought proper, the...
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The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending ..., Volume 2

Luke Hebert - 1835 - 938 pages
...furnished with a cock to admit the steam from the digester, or shut it off at pleasure, as well es to open a communication from the inside of the syringe...cylinder and digester was opened, the steam entered the eyringe, and by its action upon the piston, raised a considerable weight (fifteen pounds,) with which...
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The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending ..., Volume 2

Luke Hebert - 1836 - 942 pages
...shut it ofF at pleasure, as well as to open a communication from the inside of the syringe to the opeu air, by which the steam contained in the syringe might...action upon the piston, raised a considerable weight (fifteen pounds,) with which it was loaded. When this was raised as high as was thought proper, the...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pages
...to admit the steam from the digester, or shut it off at pleasure, as well as to open a commnnicutiun from the inside of the syringe to the open air, by...syringe might escape. When the communication between the digester and syringe was opened, the steam entered the syringe, and by its action upon the piston raised...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the Seventh Ed. of the Encyclopaedia ...

John Scott Russell - 1851 - 356 pages
...and formed a species of steam-engine by fixing upon it a syringe one-third of an inch in diameter ^j with a solid piston, and furnished also with a cock...syringe might escape. When the communication between the digester and syringe was opened, the steam entered the syringe, and by its action upon the piston raised...
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