Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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
Full view - About this book

Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 55

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1851 - 552 pages
...after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream 40 feet high : one vessel of water rarified by fire 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...
Full view - About this book

The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volume 55

Industrial arts - 1851 - 556 pages
...after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream 40 feet high: one vessel of water rarified by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the work has but to turn two cocks, that one vmtet of water being consumed another begins to force and refill...
Full view - About this book

The Steam-engine: A Popular Account of Its Construction, Action, and History ...

Hugo Reid - Steam engineering - 1851 - 292 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 hut to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill...
Full view - About this book

A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ...

John Bourne - Steam engineering - 1851 - 346 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 that tends the work has but to turn two cocks that one vessel of water being consumed another begins to force and re-fill...
Full view - About this book

History of the steam engine, from the second century before the Christian ...

R. W., Robert Wallace - Steam-engines - 1852 - 144 pages
...the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain, forty-feet high; one vessel rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that attends the work has but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins...
Full view - About this book

Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopedia, Volume 2

William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 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...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...
Full view - About this book

The Steam-engine, Its History and Mechanism: Being Descriptions and ...

Robert Scott Burn - Technology & Engineering - 1854 - 214 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 that tends the work has. but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to foree and refill...
Full view - About this book

The Steam Engine

Thomas Osmond Summers - Steam-engines - 1856 - 200 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 that tends the work has but to turn two cocks; that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill...
Full view - About this book

The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1858 - 656 pages
...other, I have seen " the water run like a constant fountaine-stream forty foot " high ; one vessel of water rarified by fire driveth up forty " of cold...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,...
Full view - About this book

The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1859 - 440 pages
...the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountaine-stream forty foot high ; one vessel of water rarified by fire driveth up forty of cold...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,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF