 | Thomas Ewbank - 1857 - 710 pages
...the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to ibrce and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the seJf same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...tends the work is but to " turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed. " another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so " successively,...between the necessity of turning the said cocks.'' " 98. An engine so contrived, that working the primum " mobile forward or backward, upward or downward,... | |
 | Bristol Mining School - 1859 - 312 pages
...that tends the work has to turn two cocks, that one " vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill " with cold water, and so successively,...between the necessity of turning the said " cocks." Some of the so-called inventions are ridiculous and absurd. But that relative to the steam-engine deserves... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pages
...that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of Water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively,...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." "98. An engine so contrived, that working the primum mobile forward or backward, upward or downward,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...that tends the work has to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively,...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." Some of the so-called inventions are ridiculous and absurd. But that relative to the steam engine deserves... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...that tends the work has to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively,...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." Some of the so-called inventions are ridiculous and absurd. But that relative to the steam engine deserves... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 556 pages
...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,...between the necessity of turning the said Cocks." From this account we gather that the Marquis had contrived a plan for raising water by the expansive... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1865 - 874 pages
...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,...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." The first application of steam as a motive power is mentioned by Hero of Alexandria, in his " Tlvsu^fixK."... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 562 pages
...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,...between the necessity of turning the said Cocks." From this account we gather that the Marquis had contrived a plan for raising water by the expansive... | |
 | Henry Dircks - 1865 - 670 pages
...is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed^ another begins to force and refil with cold water, and so successively, the fire being...the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform between the necessity of turning the said cocks." And in No. 100, he says, " a child 's force bringeth... | |
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I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; 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... 
