 | John Bourne (C.E.) - 1853 - 344 pages
...many ingenious and some fantastic and preposterous devices, we have the following fire water- work, "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it ' infra sphicram activitatis,' which is but at such a distance, but this way hath no bounder if the... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 pages
...water-work," seems distinctly to convey the idea of a steam-engine: — "An admirable and most forcible way is to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher callcth it, ¿nrr« tplmrum activitutis, which is best at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...which he enumerates, the following is the one which is closely connected with our present subject : " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire; not drawing or sucking it upward, for that must be, as one philosopher calls it, infra sphcerum activitatis,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 520 pages
...one step in advance of Caus towards the use of steam power. His Sixty-eighth Invention is entitled " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." He describes his having made a "constant fountain stream of water, raised in the proportion of forty... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...one step in advance of Cans towards the use of steam power. His Sixty-eighth Invention is entitled " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." He describes his having made a " constant fountain stream of water, raised in the proportion of forty... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 pages
...one step in advance of Caus towards the use of steam power. His Sixty-eighth Invention is entitled " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." He describes his having made a "constant fountain stream of water, raised in the proportion of forty... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 pages
...invention is a steamengine for raising water, which he thus describes: " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire; not by drawing...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphcerum activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | James T. Lloyd - 1856 - 334 pages
...proposition, in counection with the ninety-ninth and one hundredth of the "Century," and is entitled "An Admirable and Most Forcible Way to Drive up Water by Fire." About twenty years later, (AD 1683,) Sir Samuel Morland prepared a manuscript work, (the original copy... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...'Century of Inventions,' first published in 1663, occur the following curious articles : — " 68. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up " water by fire, not by drawing or slicking it upwards, for " that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, Intra sphaeram •• activitatit,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 524 pages
...Century of Inventions." Of the hundred new discoveries here enumerated, the sixty-eighth is entitled " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." As fai as may be judged from the vague description which the marqui* gives us of his apparatus, it... | |
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An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... 
