| 1825 - 458 pages
...fountain-stream forty foot 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,...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... | |
| 1822 - 722 pages
...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,...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... | |
| William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...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... | |
| Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 474 pages
...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,...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... | |
| 1822 - 712 pages
...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 is but to turn two cocks,...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... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 444 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,''''... | |
| 1825 - 616 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,... | |
| 1825 - 486 pages
...man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another to force and refill with cold water, and so successively,...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...will be filling, and vice versa, which agrees with the marquis's account when he says, " that the man is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force," &c.' — p. 108.* It is certainly possible, though we do not conceive it probable, that the marquess... | |
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