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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 Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 7-9

Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...vessel of water rarefied by the fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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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Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader, Volume 9

1864 - 402 pages
...vessel of water rarefied by the fire driveth up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work has 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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Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works ..., Volume 4

Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 556 pages
...the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant Fountainestream 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 turning the...
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Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy ..., Volume 2

James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1865 - 874 pages
...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...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 Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 66

1865 - 792 pages
...water run like a constant fountainstream forty foot high ; one vessel of water ratified by fire drivcth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...water being consumed, another begins to force, and refil with cold water, and so successively, the firo being tended, and kept constant, which the self...
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The Life, Times and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester

Henry Dircks - 1865 - 670 pages
...represented with one furnace. Then in " The Miners Friend," we have parts ter says : — " A man tfiat tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one...water being consumed^ another begins to force and refil with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame...
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Inventors and inventions

Henry Dircks - 1867 - 340 pages
...one to fill after the other. I have seen the water run like a constant Fountaine-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 turning the...
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, Volume 41

1907 - 600 pages
...run like a constant fountain stream 40 feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up 40 of cold water, and a man that tends the work is but...refill with cold water, and so successively ; the fire tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim...
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Wonderful Inventions: From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph Cable

John Timbs - 1868 - 454 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 Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills ...

John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 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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