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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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Wonderful Inventions: From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph Cable

John Timbs - 1868 - 448 pages
...rarified by fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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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A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills ...

John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 pages
...rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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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Penn Monthly, Volume 7

Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 pages
...by fire driveth up fourty of cold water, and the man who tends the works has 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 Great Inventions: Their History, from the Earliest Period to the Present ...

Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 pages
...rarified by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And the 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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Ten Books for the People: Reports, Programmes, Etc., Given to the Members ...

Charles Edward Bolton - 1884 - 414 pages
...said, "driveth up forty feet of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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 selfsame person may likewise...
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The Mechanical Engineering of Collieries, Part 1, Volume 1

Cornelius McLeod Percy - 1886 - 674 pages
...rarefied by fire, driveth up 40 of cold water and a man that tends this work hath but to turn one handle. One vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and constant, which the selfsame person may abundantly perform...
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The Romance of Invention: Vignettes from the Annals of Industry and Science

James Burnley - 1886 - 420 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 selfsame person may likewise...
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Magazine of Western History, Volume 7

1887 - 810 pages
...by fire, driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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, while the self-same person may likewise...
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National Magazine: A Monthly Journal of American History, Volume 7

1888 - 786 pages
...by fire, driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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, while the self-same person may likewise...
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James Watt and the Steam Engine

1899 - 206 pages
...by fire, driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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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