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" I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another... "
The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions - Page 237
edited by - 1826
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The Repertory of arts and manufactures [afterw.] arts, manufactures and ...

Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1802 - 556 pages
...run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire drivcth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill wjth cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person...
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Jacques Ozanam - 1803 - 596 pages
..." seen the water run Uke a constant fountain stream " forty feet high; one vessel of water rarefied by " fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...fire being tended and kept *' constant, which the self same person may like" wise abundantly perform in the interim between " the necessity of turning...
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Public Characters, Volume 5

1803 - 598 pages
...raised forty of cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 5

1803 - 614 pages
...raised forty qf cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, &o that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but...
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ..

Jacques Ozanam - 1814 - 502 pages
...like a constant fountain stream 40 " feet high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth " up 40 of cold water. And a man that tends the work " is...the fire being tended and " kept constant, which the self same person may likewise " abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity " of turning...
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A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects: Disclosed from the Secrets of ...

Thomas Lupton - 1815 - 262 pages
...a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst and made a great crack : so that having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened...-water being consumed, another begins to force and re-, fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 92

1822 - 712 pages
...like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vesiel of water, rarificd by lire, <liivc-t.li up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...another begins to force and refill with cold water, anil to successively, the 6re being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ..., Volume 2

James Ferguson - 1823 - 444 pages
...40 of cold water. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks ; so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." In a work entitled the " Miner's Friend,''''...
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 2

1825 - 616 pages
...fire, driveth up forty of cold water, (or in other words, forty times the quantity in the boiler.) A man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, (by the pressure of the atmosphere,) and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 32

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...will be filling, and vice versa, which agrees with the marquis's account when he says, " that the man is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force," &c.' — p. 108.* It is certainly possible, though we do not conceive it probable, that the marquess...
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