 | 1842 - 634 pages
...accuracy and uniformity, the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; the briskness of the fire ; the supply of water to the boiler... | |
 | Neil Arnott - Physics - 1829 - 542 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, and counts or records them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum: — it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work; — the briskness of the fire; — the supply of water to the boiler;... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum; — it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work — the briskness of the fire — the supply of water to the boiler... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; — it regulates the quantity of sleam admitted to work ; — the briskness oflbejire ; — the supply of water to the boiler... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; — it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; — the briskness of the fire ; — the supply of water to the... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler, the... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, and counts and records them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler, the... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...and uniformity the number of its strokes ua given time, and counts and records them moreover, to ell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats )f its pendulum; it regulates the quantity of steam aduitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work ; the briskness of the fire ; the supply of water to the boiler... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - Hygiene - 1838 - 360 pages
...accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, and counts and records them moreover, to tell how much work it has done, as a clock records the beats of its pendulum ; it regulates the quantity of steam admitted to work, the briskness of the fire, the supply of water to the boiler, the... | |
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In the present perfect state of the engine it appears a thing almost endowed with intelligence. It regulates with perfect accuracy and uniformity the number of its strokes in a given time, counting or recording them, moreover, to tell how much work it... 
