 | Thomas Ewbank - 1857 - 710 pages
...help as these two last-mentioned inventions, a water-work is, by many years experience and labor, BO 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... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...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 not be heard even into the next room ; •• and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, that CHAP. IX. THE 'CENTURY OF INVENTION?.'... | |
 | 1859 - 562 pages
...him. The 100th says, "Upon so potent a help as these two last-mentioned inventions, a Water- works is by many years experience and labour so advantageously...diameter, so naturally that the work will not be heard in the next room, and with great ease and geometrical symmetry, that though it work day and night from... | |
 | Bristol Mining School - 1859 - 312 pages
...years- experience and labour, so advantageously contrived that a " child-s force bringeth up an huudred feet high an incredible quantity " of water, even...diameter, so naturally, that the work will not " be heard into the next room, and with so great ease and geometrical " symmetry, though it work day and night,... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
..." can effect. " 100. Upon so potent a help as these two last mentioned " inventions, a waterwork 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... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pages
...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 not be heard even into the next room ; and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, that though it work day and night from one end of... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...pounds can effect. 100. 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 irork in the whole world, not only with little charge... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pages
...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 feet high an incredible diameter. And I may boldly call it the most stupendous work in the whole world, not only with little... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 360 pages
...span in width." In his Century of Inventions, the Marquis describes this as a master-work by which " a child's force bringeth up an hundred feet high, an incredible quantity of water, even 2 feet diameter." He boldly calls it " the most stupendous work in the whole world, not only with little... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...place we read — "That his water- work is, by many years' experience and labour, so advantageously contrived that a child's force bringeth up an hundred...diameter, so naturally, that the work will not be heard into the next room, and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, though it work day and night,... | |
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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. 
