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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... "
Inventors and Inventions - Page 249
by Henry Dircks - 1867 - 263 pages
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Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 12

1833 - 632 pages
...have seen the water run like a constant fountainstream forty feet high; one vessel of water ratified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...and so successively; the fire being tended and kept con' slant, which the self-same person may abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 2

1820 - 618 pages
...cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water bcinfi consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the tire beiug tended anc kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, Volume 3

1842 - 446 pages
...the Marquis of Worcester's description, where he says, that " a man has but to turn two cocks, and that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill." He also observes, that the condensation of the steam opens and shut! the valves, and fills the vessels,...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 12

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1859 - 606 pages
...cold water ; and the person who conducted the operations had nothing to do but to turn two cocks, so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession.' * Such are the simple but pregnant words...
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