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" 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, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being... "
The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ... - Page 417
edited by - 1810
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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the ...

1840 - 908 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driven up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is bat to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill...
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The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical ...

Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied 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 consumed, another begins to force and refill...
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The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist, Volume 2

1837 - 800 pages
...run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water r, rifled by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work,...constant, which the self-same person may likewise * A portion of the preceding invention, No. 67, in our last Number, was by mistake omitted; it is as...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pages
...high. One vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that attends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to to force and refill with cold water, and so successively." The internal evidence of the truth of this...
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A Manual of the Steam Engine

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1842 - 340 pages
...under the head of a Fire Water Work, he states: — "One vessel of water rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the...between the necessity of turning the said cocks."* The nature of the machinery employed for this purpose is of less consequence to us than the fact, that...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 608 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the...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 Manual of the Steam Engine

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1842 - 348 pages
...under the head of a Fire Water Work, he states: — " One vessel of water rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the...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 Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 638 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the...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 Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 612 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the...to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consomed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 41

Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1844 - 504 pages
...interesting article concludes : — 7. " — ; the fire being tended and kept constant (under each boiler), which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly...perform in the interim between the necessity of turning said (two) cocks." Those who are least disposed to allow the Marquis much ingenuity as a mechanical...
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