| 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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