 | Thomas Ewbank - 1846 - 646 pages
...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...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." We here see clearly what was meant by Ramseye and others when they spoke of raising water by fire,... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 580 pages
...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...water, and so successively ; the fire being tended anfl kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between... | |
 | Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 pages
...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 re-fill...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." This is the first feasible echeme for raising water by steam power that history records, and it is... | |
 | Charles Foote Gower - 1847 - 208 pages
...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...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." It appears from the above extract that the Marquis was quite acquainted with the expansive power of... | |
 | 384 pages
...but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill, and so successively ; the fire being tended and kept...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." The Marquess afterwards published another book, containing only 22 pages, called, " An exact and true... | |
 | Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 pages
...of cold water : and the man that tends the work is hut 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 attended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim... | |
 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1848 - 100 pages
...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...in the interim between the necessity of turning the same cocks." This experiment was made, it is supposed, in the year 1663, and Dr. Lardner observes,... | |
 | History - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." In the accompanying figure of the Marquis of Worcester's engine it represents the boiler composed of... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 pages
...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...in the interim between the necessity of turning the same cocks." This experiment was made, it is supposed, in the year 1663, and Dr. Lardner observes,... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pages
...forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is hut to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." This is termed a fire-water-work in the index. — Article XC VIII. " An engine so contrived that,... | |
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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 to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being... 
