| 384 pages
...the process repeated as long as may be desired. This agrees with the Marquess's account of " a man but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force." Mr. Millington says, the power thus gained is not so great as might be expected, since the height it... | |
| Charles Foote Gower - Dwellings - 1847 - 208 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 has but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill... | |
| Artizan club (London, England) - Steam engineering - 1847 - 338 pages
...run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by rire 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... | |
| Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1848 - 100 pages
...seen the water run in a constant stream forty 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... | |
| History - Children's literature - 1849 - 270 pages
...water 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 has but to turn two cocks; that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill... | |
| R. Yorke Clarke - Railroads - 1850 - 256 pages
...seen the water run in a constant stream forty 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... | |
| Thomas Ewbank - Pumping machinery - 1851 - 646 pages
...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...that, one vessel of water being consumed, another beging to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant,... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1851 - 552 pages
...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...another begins to force and refill with cold water, and to successively." The words in italics are the "centre of the hobble ;" to explain them one writer... | |
| Technology - 1851 - 552 pages
...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 re/ill with cold water, and to successively." The words in italics are the "centre of the hobble ;"... | |
| John Bourne - Steam engineering - 1851 - 346 pages
...have been indispensable to make the action of the engine continuous. Besides the description says, that " one vessel of water being consumed another begins to force, and refill with cold water," which we take to mean that when the water of one boiler was evaporated it was filled up with cold water,... | |
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