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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... "
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... - Page 413
by William Seward - 1798
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The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist, Volume 2

1837 - 800 pages
...seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water r, rifled by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...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,...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - Steam-engines - 1841 - 422 pages
...other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain forty feet high. One vessel of water, rarefied 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...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 pages
...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...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,...
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A Manual of the Steam Engine

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Steam engine - 1842 - 348 pages
...a cannon ; and, under the head of a Fire Water Work, he states: — " One vessel of water rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man...tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively,...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...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...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,...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 41

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1844 - 504 pages
...raising by means of a vacuum; but "one vessel of water rarefied by fire," that is, expanded into steam, " 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...
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Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 41

Technology - 1844 - 508 pages
...by means of a vacuum ; but " one vessel of water rarefied by fire," that is, expanded into steam, " 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...
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The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Volume 41

1844 - 564 pages
...raising by means of a vacuum; but "one vessel of water rarefied by fire," that is, expanded into steam, " 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...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 42

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1845 - 472 pages
...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, so that one vessel of cold water being consumed, expended, or driven up, another begins to force, ie,...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge ..., Volume 3

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...fountain-stream, forty foot high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and the 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,...
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