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" I 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 that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins... "
Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy - Page 338
1825
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Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam Engine

Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 1829 - 372 pages
...the cocks z, tt>, are opened and shut alternately. Mr. Millington remarks, that this engine agrees so far with the Marquis of Worcester's description,...being consumed, another begins to force and refill." He also observes, that the condensation of the steam opens and shuts the valves, and fills the vessels,...
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The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, Part 2

English periodicals - 1833 - 598 pages
...rarifted by fire, driveth up fbrtf 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 tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the ...

Meteorology - 1829 - 906 pages
...rarefied by fire,-driveth 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 with cold water, and so successively the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...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 tended and kept constant, which 40. A hollow copper...
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The Portfolio of Entertaining & Instructive Varieties in History, Literature ...

1829 - 392 pages
...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 begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same person...
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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines: And of ..., Volume 1

Robert Stuart - Inventors - 1829 - 510 pages
...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 to force and refill with cold water, and so successively."* This description, although obscure, would give a mechanic a...
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Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine: In which Its Construction and ...

Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1830 - 228 pages
...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 force and refill with cold water and so successively ; the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same...
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History and Progress of the Steam Engine: With a Practical Investigation of ...

Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1829 - 890 pages
...by fire, driveth up forty of cold water; and a roan 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 tended, and kept constant, which the self-same...
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Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam Engine

Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 1831 - 378 pages
...the cocks z, w, are opened and shut alternately. Mr. Millington remarks, that this engine agrees go far with the Marquis of Worcester's description, where...being consumed, another begins to force and refill." He also observes, that the condensation of the steam opens and shuts the valves, and fills the vessels,...
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The United Service Journal

Military art and science - 1833 - 598 pages
...rarifled 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 tended and kept constant, which the self-same...
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