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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 on the Steam Engine: In Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ...

Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 pages
...have been indispensable to make the action of the engine continuous. Besides the description says, that "one vessel of water being consumed another begins to force, and reiill with cold water," which we take to mean that when the water of one boiler was evaporated it...
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The locomotive, or the steam engine applied to railways, common roads, and ...

Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1848 - 100 pages
...vessel of water rarified 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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A history of wonderful inventions

History - 1849 - 270 pages
...vessel of water rarified 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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Railway Appliances in the Nineteenth Century: With Illustrative Anecdotes ...

R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 pages
...vessel of water rarified 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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The Steam-engine: A Popular Account of Its Construction, Action, and History ...

Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 pages
...vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is hut 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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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 55

Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1851 - 552 pages
...vessel of water rarified 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...another begins to force and refill with cold water, and to successively." The words in italics are the "centre of the hobble ;" to explain them one writer...
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Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 55

1851 - 552 pages
...vessel of water rarified 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 consumed another begins to force and re/ill with cold water, and to successively." The words in italics are the "centre of the hobble ;"...
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A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ...

John Bourne - 1851 - 346 pages
...have been indispensable to make the action of the engine continuous. Besides the description says, that " one vessel of water being consumed another begins to force, and refill with cold water," which we take to mean that when the water of one boiler was evaporated it was filled up with cold water,...
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The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 55

1851 - 556 pages
...driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the work has but to turn two cocks, that one vmtet of water being consumed another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so succetsrvely." The words in italics are the "centre of the hobble ;" to explain them one writer alters...
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History of the steam engine, from the second century before the Christian ...

R. W., Robert Wallace - 1852 - 144 pages
...high; one vessel rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that attends 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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