 He pursued the discovery, and established the fact, that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation, without the aid of any mixture for fining or precipitating its foreign contents. In 1767, he proposed an extempore...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 35edited by - 1793Full view - About this book
 | 1835 - 908 pages
...the rain water." He pursued the discovery, and established the fact, that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...gun barrel instead of Chapman's pewter tube, and the hand-pump of the ship to be cut in two, obliquely, and joined again at an acute angle, instead of Chapman's... | |
 | 1835 - 570 pages
...the rain water." He pursued the discovery, and established the fact, that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...which, in fact, was Chapman's, only substituting a gun-barrel instead of Chapman's pewter tube, and the hand-pump of the ship to be cut in two, obliquely,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1835 - 576 pages
...the rain water." He pursued the discovery, and established the fact, that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...which, in fact, was Chapman's, only substituting a gun-barrel instead of Chapman's pewter tube, and the hand-pump ef the ship to be cut in two, obliquely,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 pages
...discovery and established the fact, that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt-water by simple distillation, without the aid of any mixture...which, in fact, was Chapman's, only substituting a gun-barrel instead of Chapman's pewter tube, and the hand-pump of the ship to be cut in two obliquely... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1958 - 1404 pages
...as the rainwater." He p"rs-ed the discovery, and established the fact that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...of Chapman's pewter tube, and the hand pump of the ship to be cut in two obliquely, and joined again at pn acute angle, instead of Chapman's wooden t'^es... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations - 1958 - 1008 pages
...the rainwater." He p1 rs1 ed the discovery, and established the fact that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...for fining or precipitating its foreign contents. In 1 707, he proposed an extempore still, which, in fact, was Chapman's, only substituting a gun barrel... | |
 | C. Richard Boehlert - 1971 - 816 pages
...the rainwater." He pursued the discovery, and established the fact that a pure :iiid potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...for fining or precipitating its foreign contents. In 1707, he proposed an extempore still, which, in fact, was Chapman's only Mihstitutlng a gun barrel... | |
 | 1835 - 456 pages
...the rain water." He pursued the discovery, and established the fact, that a pure and potable fresh water may be obtained from salt water by simple distillation,...gun barrel instead of Chapman's pewter tube, and the hand-pump of the ship to be cut in two, obliquely, and joined again at an acute angle, instead of Chapman's... | |
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