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" ... upright or downright, yet the pretended operation continueth, and advanceth none of the motions above-mentioned, hindering, much less stopping the other ; but unanimously and with harmony agreeing, they all augment and contribute strength unto the... "
Inventors and inventions - Page 230
by Henry Dircks - 1867
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The Steam-engine: A Popular Account of Its Construction, Action, and History ...

Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pages
...downright, yet the pretended operation continueth and advanceth, none of the motions above mentioned hindering, much less stopping, the other ; but, unanimously,...do intend that a model thereof be buried with me." This versatile primum mobile must, surely, be steam ; and, in article C, he speaks of a water- work,...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1851 - 646 pages
...contribute strength unto the intended work and operation ; and, therefore, I call this a »emi-omnipotent engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me. " 99. How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high ai one pound fulleth, and yet the hundred...
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Pleasant pages (by S.P. Newcombe). [With suppl., entitled ..., Volume 1

Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...The MARQUIS OF WORCESTER published an account of one in a book. After describing it, he says — " I call this a semi-omnipotent engine, and do intend that a model of it be buried with me." L. That seems very selfish! I wonder what that was for. P. I cannot say....
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Cyclopædia of useful arts & manufactures, ed. by C. Tomlinson. 9 divs, Volume 8

Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 258 pages
...contribute strength unto the intended work and operation ; and therefore I call thi? a icmi oir1nifi<tlent engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me." It was buried indeed, and, if re-invented, will won bury the tUam-cngine. with as mueh foree as was...
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The Steam-engine, Its History and Mechanism: Being Descriptions and ...

Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...agreeing, they all augment and contribute strength unto the intended work and operation ; and therefore do I call this a semi-omnipotent engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried with me." The next proposition is as follows: " How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high as one...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1858 - 638 pages
...circularly or cornerwise, to and fro, streight, upright, or downright, yet the pretended opeinlion continueth, and advanceth, none of the motions above-mentioned...intend that a model thereof be buried with me. " 99. How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high as one pound falleth, and yet the hundred...
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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...the pretended operation continueth, and advanceth " none of the motions above-mentioned, liindering, much less " stopping the other ; but unanimously and...intend that a model thereof " be buried with me. " 99. How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred " as high as one pound falleth, and yet the hundred...
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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pages
...may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks." "98. An engine so contrived, that working the primum mobile...intend that a model thereof be buried with me. " 99. How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high as one pound falleth, and yet the hundred...
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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...mobile forward or backward, upward or downward, circularly " or corner-wise, to and fro, straight, upright or downright, " yet the pretended operation...intend that a model thereof " be buried with me. " 99. How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred " as high as one pound falleth, and yet the hundred...
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Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Volume 1

1859 - 562 pages
...of the motions above-mentioned, hindering, much less stopping the other; but unanimously, and wilh harmony agreeing, they all augment and contribute...do intend that a model thereof be buried with me." The 99th is, "How to make one pound weight to raise an hundred as high as one pound falleth, and yet...
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