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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 begins... "
A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ... - Page 3
edited by - 1851 - 258 pages
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A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ...

Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...rarified 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 begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 474 pages
...rarified 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 begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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The Investigator (or, Quarterly magazine) [ed. by W.B. Collyer, T ..., Volume 5

William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...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 begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 92

1822 - 712 pages
...by lire, <liivc-t.li 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 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
...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 begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same person may likewise...
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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
...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 begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volume 2

1825 - 490 pages
...the Marquis of Worcester's description, where he says, that " a man has but to turn two cocks, and that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill." The condensation of the steam opens and shuts the valves, and fills the vessels, but this use of the...
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American Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 1

1825 - 428 pages
...with the Marquis of Worcester's description, where he says that ' a man has but to turn two cocks, and that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill.' He also observes that the condensation of steam opens and shuts the valves, and fills the vessels ;...
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History of the Steam Engine: From Its First Invention to the Present Time

Elijah Galloway - 1826 - 250 pages
...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 begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended, and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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