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" ... into the next room ; and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, that, though it work day and night, from one end of the year to the other, it will not require forty shillings reparation to the whole engine, nor hinder one day's work. "
The Steam-engine: Being a Popular Description of the Construction and Action ... - Page 76
by Hugo Reid - 1838 - 203 pages
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Pitman's Popular Lecturer and Reader, Volume 9

1864 - 402 pages
...experience and labour, so advantageously coetrived that a child's force biingeth up an hundred feet lti^'ii an incredible quantity of water, even two feet diameter, so naturally, that the work will not be heard into the ue.fl room, and with so great ease and geometrical symmetry, though it work day and night,...
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Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works ..., Volume 4

Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 556 pages
...pound can effect." " 100. Upon so potent a help as these two last-mentioned Inventions a Waterwork is by many years experience and labour so advantageously...contrived, that a Child's force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot Diameter, so naturally, that the work will...
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Lives of Boulton and Watt: Principally from the Original Soho Mss ...

Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 562 pages
...pound can effect." " I00. Upon so potent a help as these two last-mentioned Inventions a Waterwork is by many years experience and labour so advantageously...contrived, that a Child's force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot Diameter, so naturally, that the work will...
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Lives of Boulton and Watt: Principally from the Original Soho Mss ...

Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 560 pages
...pound can effect." " 100. Upon so potent a help as these two last-mentioned Inventions a Waterwork is by many years experience and labour so advantageously by me contrived, that a Child's force bringfth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot Diameter, so naturally,...
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The Life, Times and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester

Henry Dircks - 1865 - 670 pages
...force bringeth up an hundred foot3 high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot3 Diameter, 4fo naturally, that the work will not be heard even into the next Room ; and with fo great eafe and Geometrical Symmetry, that though it work day and night from one end of...
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Inventors and inventions

Henry Dircks - 1867 - 340 pages
...that a Childs force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot Diameter, so naturally, that the work will not be heard even into the next Room ; and with so great ease and Geometrical Symmetry, that though it work day and night from one end of...
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Inventors and Inventions

Henry Dircks - 1867 - 302 pages
...stupendious Water-work. — Upon so potent a help as these two last mentioned Inventions a Waterwork is by many years experience and labour so advantageously by me contrived, that a Childs force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot Diameter,...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills ...

John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 pages
...been perfectly competent to compass. In another part of his "Century" he says that his water-work " is by many years' experience and labour so advantageously...contrived, that a child's force bringeth up an hundred foot high an incredible quantity of water, even two foot diameter, so naturally, that the work will...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1876 - 1228 pages
...a help as these two last-mentioned inventions, a water-work is, by many years experience and labor, so advantageously by me contrived, that a child's force bringeth up, an hundred foot high, an incredible quantity of water, even two foot diameter, so naturally, that the work will...
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The technical educator, an encyclopædia, Volumes 3-4; Volume 34

Technical educator - 1877 - 852 pages
...can effect." " No. 100: Upon so potent a help as these two List-mentioned inventions, a waterwork is, by many years' experience and labour, so advantageously by me contrived, that a child's force bringeth np, an hundred feet high, an incredible quantity of water, even two feet diameter. And I may boldly...
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