 ... stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and, making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack...  Inventors and inventions - Page 224by Henry Dircks - 1867Full view - About this book
 | 1899 - 206 pages
...cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - 1894 - 464 pages
...cannon whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making 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... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1897 - 410 pages
...cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole ; and, making...hours it burst and made a great crack, so that, having made a way to make my vessels so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1910 - 402 pages
...cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole; and making 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... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1912 - 408 pages
...up the broken end, as also the touch-hole; and making 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 [84] so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I... | |
 | J. A. Ewing - 1914 - 638 pages
...Cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and scruinp up the broken end ; as also the Touch-hole ; and making...24 hours it burst and made a great crack. So that baring a way to make my Vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - 1925 - 332 pages
...and filled it three-quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch hole, and making a constant fire under it ; within 24 hours it burst and made a great crack; so that having found a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one... | |
 | 1896 - 652 pages
...discovering that the vapor from boiling water could not be bottled up without danger of an explosion. open end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it — within twenty-four hours it burst and made a great crack." The "great crack" of Worcester's cannon, and the... | |
 | Arthur Titley - 358 pages
...example, Edward Somerset, second Marquis of Worcester — and he was not the first — tells1 how he took a piece of a whole Cannon whereof the end was burst...it, within 24 hours it burst and made a great crack. Instead of trying to restrain this giant force, as knowledge spread and it became known that the atmosphere... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 594 pages
...a whole cannon, whereof the end was hurst, aml filled it three quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-fours hours it burst, and made a great crack ; so that having found a way to make my vessels,... | |
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