 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pages
...actually carried into effect : he speaks of having made use of a cannon for his boiler ; and he says, " I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream...rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water." And Sorbiere, when here in 1663, saw the engine at. work — although the superficial, chattering Frenchman... | |
 | John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pages
...within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain forty feet 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 612 pages
...them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire...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... | |
 | 1844 - 564 pages
...raising by means of a vacuum; but "one vessel of water rarefied by fire," that is, expanded into steam, " 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... | |
 | 1844 - 508 pages
...by means of a vacuum ; but " one vessel of water rarefied by fire," that is, expanded into steam, " 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... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1844 - 504 pages
...raising by means of a vacuum; but "one vessel of water rarefied by fire," that is, expanded into steam, " 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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...and one to fill after another, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream, forty foot high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and the man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1845 - 472 pages
...rather in favour of its being confined to the time occupied in exhausting one boiler ; for he says, "One vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water." This, to my mind, seems to indicate that the Marquis used only one boiler, of the same capacity as... | |
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So that, having a way to make my vessels so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. 
