| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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