 | 1837 - 516 pages
...appeared in France during the time that Worcester resided there. t [" No. LXVIII. (A Fire Waterwork.) — An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphceram... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1838 - 234 pages
...the first, and, there is every reason to believe, the others, refer to a steam-engine : — " LXVI1I. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards — for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, intra tphaeram... | |
 | 1838 - 508 pages
...of its recondensation. The Marquiss of Worcester mentions it .in his " Century of Inventions" as " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." Sir Samuel Morland was acquainted with it as a moving force about 1685, and designates numerically... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1839 - 554 pages
...which terminated in this important discovery." The Marquis's account of his invention is as follows.— "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher callcth it, Infra Spheeram... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1840 - 288 pages
...sometimes to the very lip of the spout, by the expansion of the superjacent air within the vessel. Of the hundred new discoveries here enumerated, the...from the vague description which the marquis gives of his apparatus, it appears to have been constructed upon the same principle with that formerly proposed... | |
 | Paul Rapsey Hodge - 1840 - 266 pages
...appeared in print in 1663. We there find the following Name and Scantling : "LXVIII. A Fire Water-Work.— An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards ; for that must be, as the Philosopher calleth it, infra sph&ram... | |
 | 1840 - 908 pages
...première machine à feu) is described in these terms, under the head of the 68th invention: — •• An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or Bucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, httrà tpharam... | |
 | 1840 - 908 pages
...première machine à feu) is described in these terms, under the head of the 68th invention: — '• An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, intrà sphœram... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...In the 68th article of that work, the Marquis describes the invention in the following words: — " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire. Not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, intra sfKcram... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pages
...most interesting of all the marquess's projects, the sixty-eighth in the list, which he entitles " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire," and which appears from his description to have been, in fact, a species of steam-engine. His language... | |
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An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... 
