 | Early English newspapers - 1822 - 722 pages
...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...between the necessity of turning the said cocks.' — Vide Harleian MSS. No. 2428. " In 16'S3, a scheme for raising water by the agency of steam was... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 712 pages
...like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vesiel of water, rarificd by lire, <liivc-t.li up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work...another begins to force and refill with cold water, anil to successively, the 6re being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1823 - 444 pages
...40 of cold water. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks ; so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." In a work entitled the " Miner's Friend,''''... | |
 | Science - 1825 - 616 pages
...fire, driveth up forty of cold water, (or in other words, forty times the quantity in the boiler.) A man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, (by the pressure of the atmosphere,) and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 486 pages
...like a constant fountain-stream, 40 foot high; one vessel of water, rarifled by tire, driving up 40 of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but...cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...will be filling, and vice versa, which agrees with the marquis's account when he says, " that the man is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force," &c.' — p. 108.* It is certainly possible, though we do not conceive it probable, that the marquess... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1825 - 472 pages
...high; one vessel of water, rarified by" lire, driving up 40 of cold water. Ami a man that tends tbe work is but to turn two -cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another to -force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the tire being tended and kept constant,... | |
 | Technology - 1825 - 428 pages
...with the Marquis of Worcester's description, where he says that ' a man has but to turn two cocks, and that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill.' He also observes that the condensation of steam opens and shuts the valves, and fills the vessels ;... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 490 pages
...the water run like a constant stream forty feet high. One vessel of water, rarified by fire, driving up forty of cold water, and a man that tends the work, has but to turn two cocks ; that one vessel of water being coneumed, another begins to force and refill... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1826 - 408 pages
...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...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." From this account Dr. Robinson founds an opinion that " the steam engine was, beyond all doubt, the... | |
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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 to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being... 
