 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 pages
...lies, chimeras, and impossibilities, showing what might be expected from such a man"), he describes " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." Worcester's machine was actually used for the purpose of elevating water at Vauxhall, and hence he... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - 1883 - 700 pages
...would make him famous had all the others of his Century been unknown. In full, it 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 calleth it Intra sphceram... | |
 | James Burnley - 1886 - 420 pages
...an important bearing upon this question that we cannot do less than quote it. It is catalogued as " 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 sphceram... | |
 | Thomas Somerville - 1891 - 320 pages
...modern times, published his " Century of the Names and Scantlings of Inventions." He there describes " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." As his machine was actually used to elevate water at Vauxhall, he is entitled to the honour of being the... | |
 | 1918 - 334 pages
...commanding engine ', termed by him ' the most stupendous work in the whole world '. No. 68 describes ' an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire ', while No. 5 contains a suggestion of shorthand, and No. 84 one of a calculating machine. No 77 is... | |
 | James Alfred Ewing - 1894 - 418 pages
...account leaves much to the imagination. It is entitled " A Fire Water-work," and runs thus : — " 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 ephaeram... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1897 - 410 pages
...Taking first the most important, being no less than the invention of the steam engine : No. 68. — " 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... | |
 | John Eliot Hodgkin - 1902 - 440 pages
...Grismond in the year 1663 " — now literally worth its weight in gold. It is in No. 68 that we find " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire" the prototype, described with purposed vagueness, of the invention to be brought into practical use... | |
 | Victoria and Albert Museum - 1907 - 468 pages
...Inventions," which was written in 1655, although not published till 1663, included descriptions of " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire " and of a " water work " ; in 1663 the benefits of a " water commanding engine " were secured to the... | |
 | Edward Keble Chatterton - 1910 - 524 pages
...second Marquis of Worcester, to whom we have already referred, also published his description of " An Admirable and most Forcible Way to drive up Water by Fire," and in this year he obtained protection by Act of Parliament for his " water commanding engine." When... | |
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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... 
