 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1865 - 556 pages
...my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet, as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 562 pages
...my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...and might be there condensed without cooling; the cvlinder. I then saw that I must °ret * rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 762 pages
...my mind, that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and if a connection were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...there condensed without cooling the cylinder. ... I had not got further than the Golf-house, when the whole thing was arranged in my mind." We can imagine... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1907 - 600 pages
...iniud that as steam vas au elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, arid that if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked farther than the golf house when... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam-engines - 1878 - 524 pages
...mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...without cooling the cylinder. I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a jet, as in Newcomen's engine. Two ways of... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - Steam locomotives - 1878 - 522 pages
...mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the 1 " Reminiscences of James Watt," Robert Hart ; " Transactions of the Glasgow Archveological Society,"... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 708 pages
...rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,2 it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.3 I then saw that I must get rid of the condensed steam and injection- water if I used a jet,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1881 - 846 pages
...my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum ; and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked further than the Golf-house, when... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1882 - 504 pages
...my mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacunm, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it, and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked farther than the Golf-house when... | |
 | James Parton - Industrial arts - 1884 - 446 pages
...mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...be there condensed without cooling the cylinder." He had found it! Before he had crossed the Green, he added, " the whole thing was arranged in my mind."... | |
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I was thinking upon the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd's house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,... 
