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" I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified 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... "
The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ... - Page 213
1829
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A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries: Being ...

George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 pages
...I have seen the •water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of cold water being consumed, another begins to force and...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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Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopedia, Volume 2

William Chambers - 1853 - 858 pages
...seen the 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...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interiix, between the necessity of turning the...
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The steam engine

Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...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...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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The Steam-engine, Its History and Mechanism: Being Descriptions and ...

Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...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 foree and refill with cold water, and so successively ; the fire being, tended and kept constant, which...
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The Steam Engine

Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 pages
...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...water, and so successively; the fire being tended and iept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1857 - 710 pages
...have seen the 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...vessel of water being consumed, another begins to ibrce and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which...
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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pages
...one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountaine-stream forty foot high ; one vessel of water rarified by fire driveth...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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Lectures Delivered at the Bristol Mining School, 1857

Bristol Mining School - 1859 - 312 pages
...vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold " water, and a man that tends the work has to turn two cocks, that one " vessel of water being...the fire being tended and kept "constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly " perform in the interim between the necessity of turning...
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Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts ...

John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...seen the 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...force and refill with cold water, and so successively, &c. The Marquis has also furnished us with a " Definition" of the above engine, which is exceedingly...
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Leben James Watt's: nebst Auszügen aus dessen Briefwechsel

James Watt - 1860 - 362 pages
...water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being congumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively etc. @onod) fatten toir jtoei Separate, bte — fo man ttitt, riñe SSerbefferung bee Œaue'fdjen —...
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