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" I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified 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... "
The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ... - Page 219
1829
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A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive, Volume 2

Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 584 pages
...forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of wuier being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty foot high ; one vessel of water rarified by fire driveth...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of taming die...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 92, Part 2; Volume 132

1822 - 722 pages
...constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack ; so that having found a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 382 pages
...ia certain that he never published any key to the first hint furnished in the Century of Inventions. force within them, and the one to fill after the other,...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 474 pages
...bint furnished in the Century of Invention*. force within them, and the one to fill after the other, 1 have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream,...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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A thousand notable things, embracing a collection of scarce receipts, &c. To ...

Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...them, and the one to fill after the other. I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of •water rarified...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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The Investigator (or, Quarterly magazine) [ed. by W.B. Collyer, T ..., Volume 5

William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 92

1822 - 712 pages
...like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vesiel of water, rarificd by lire, <liivc-t.li up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...another begins to force and refill with cold water, anil to successively, the 6re being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise...
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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics ..., Volume 2

James Ferguson - 1823 - 448 pages
...40 of cold water. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks ; so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." In a work entitled the " Miner's Friend,''''...
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The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 2

1825 - 610 pages
...fire, driveth up forty of cold water, (or in other words, forty times the quantity in the boiler.) A man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, (by the pressure of the atmosphere,) and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant,...
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