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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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The Steam-engine: Being a Popular Description of the Construction and Action ...

Hugo Reid - 1838 - 234 pages
...the broken end, as also the touch-hole., and, making a constant fire under it, within twentj -four hours it burst, and made a great crack ; so that,...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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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics ...

James Ferguson - 1839 - 554 pages
...have 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 Steam-engine: Being a Popular Description of the Construction and Action ...

Hugo Reid - 1840 - 278 pages
...burst, and made a great crack ; so that, having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strenghtened by the force within them, and the one to fill after...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 Steam Engine: Its Origin and Gradual Improvement, from the ..., Volume 1

Paul Rapsey Hodge - 1840 - 266 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 selfsame person may likewise MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity...
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Recreations in mathematics and natural philosophy, recomposed by m. Montucla ...

Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...have 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 Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine, Volumes 25-26

1840 - 908 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driven up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical ...

Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has but to turn two cocks; that one vessel of water being...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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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the ...

1840 - 912 pages
...vessel of water rarefied by fire driven up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is bat to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist, Volume 2

1837 - 800 pages
...seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water r, rifled 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 * A portion of the preceding invention, No. 67, in our last Number, was...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - 1841 - 420 pages
...high. One vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that attends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to to force and refill with cold water, and so successively." The internal evidence of the truth of this...
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