 | Henry Dircks - 1867 - 302 pages
...stupendious Water-work. — Upon so potent a help as these two last mentioned Inventions a Waterwork is by many years experience and labour so advantageously by me contrived, that a Childs force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot Diameter,... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 pages
...been perfectly competent to compass. In another part of his "Century" he says that his water-work " is by many years' experience and labour so advantageously...contrived, that a child's force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot diameter, so naturally, that the work will... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1876 - 1228 pages
...a help as these two last-mentioned inventions, a water-work is, by many years experience and labor, so advantageously by me contrived, that a child's force bringeth up, an hundred foot high, an incredible quantity of water, even two foot diameter, so naturally, that the work will... | |
 | Technical educator - 1877 - 852 pages
...can effect." " No. 100: Upon so potent a help as these two List-mentioned inventions, a waterwork is, by many years' experience and labour, so advantageously by me contrived, that a child's force bringeth np, an hundred feet high, an incredible quantity of water, even two feet diameter. And I may boldly... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 pages
...that a child's force bringeth up a hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot diameter, so naturally, that the work will not be heard even in the next Room ; and with * Captain Savery having read the Marquis of Worcester's book, was the first to put in practice the... | |
 | 1825 - 578 pages
...p. 99. -: No. C. ' Upon so potent a help as these two last mentioned inventions, a' water-work is, by many years' experience and labour, so advantageously...incredible quantity of water, even two feet diameter. And I may boldly call it, the most stupendous work in the whole world : not only with little charge... | |
 | 1842 - 446 pages
...pounds can effect. 11 Upon so potent a help as these two last-mentioned inventions, a waterwork is, by many years' experience and labour, so advantageously...me contrived, that a child's force bringeth up, an hondred fo'ot high, an incredible quantity of water, even two feet diameter, so naturally, that the... | |
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... into the next room ; and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, that, though it work day and night, from one end of the year to the other, it will not require forty shillings reparation to the whole engine, nor hinder one day's work. 
