 | John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pages
...have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the...touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours il burst and made a great crack : so that, having found a way to make my vessels... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 612 pages
...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, //•/(./ sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But...stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch- hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 608 pages
...or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, Infra sphceram activitatu, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath...stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch- hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty:four hours it burst, and made a great... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 638 pages
...or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, Infra tpharam acticitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath...stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch- hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1844 - 504 pages
...For I have taken a ¿piece of a whole cannon whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and tnaking a constant fire under it : within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great HIS INVENTION.... | |
 | 1844 - 564 pages
...cannon whereof the end was burst, and filed it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing v/i the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it .- within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack. HIS INVENTION. " GENERAL REMARK. — So that having... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...project into complete effect, under the denomination of a fire vatcr-work. It is thus described :' " I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the...touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it : within twentyfour hours it burst, and made a great crack ; so that having a way to make my vessels, so that... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1846 - 646 pages
...not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, /"/'"/ spharam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But...touch-hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack : — So that having a way to make my vessels, so... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 576 pages
...: for I have taken a piece of whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken...touch-hole; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst and made a great crack ; so that having a way to make my vessels so that... | |
 | Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 pages
...distance, but this way hath no bounder if the vessel be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled...quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the open end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours it... | |
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I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and... 
