 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1851 - 742 pages
...was found to be so simple in detail, as to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. Toe pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of the...within the pile sufficiently to seal the joints, and whilst the pumping was in progress, th« men passed through the air locks to their respective stations.... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 446 pages
...apparatus was found to be so simple in detail as to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of the airlocks and the door of the other were closed ; a few strokes compressed the air within the pile sufficiently... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - Arts, Useful - 1851 - 536 pages
...apparatus was found to be so simple in detail, as to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of...within the pile sufficiently to seal the joints ; and whilst the pumping was in progress, the men passed through the air locks to their respective stations.... | |
 | William Newton - 1851 - 540 pages
...apparatus was found to be so simple in detail, as to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of...within the pile sufficiently to seal the joints ; and whilst the pumping was in progress, the men passed through the air locks to their respective stations.... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 460 pages
...apparatus was found to be so simple in detail aa to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of the airlocks and the door of the other were closed ; a few strokes compressed the air within the pile sufficiently... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1852 - 450 pages
...apparatus was found to be so simple in detail as to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of the airlocks and the door of the other were closed ; a few strokes compressed the air within the pile sufficiently... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 810 pages
...the door of the other being closed, a few strokes compressed the air within the pile [or cylinder] sufficiently to seal the joints ; and every subsequent...until the density was sufficient to expel the water, and leave the bottom dry. Fifteen feet of water was cleared out in five minutes ; and whilst the pumping... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...the door of the other being closed, a few strokes compressed the air within the pile [or cylinder] sufficiently to seal the joints ; and every subsequent...until the density was sufficient to expel the water, and leave the bottom dry. Fifteen feet of water was cleared out in five minutes ; and whilst the pumping... | |
 | Edmund Macrory - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 406 pages
...part assigned to tnjnngement. each man, to bring the whole into systematic and efficient operation. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of...until the density was sufficient to expel the water, and to leave the bottom dry. This required a period proportioned, in general, to the depth of water... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1851 - 436 pages
...instruction in the part assigned to each man, to bring the whole into systematic and efficient operation. The pumps being set in motion, the flap of one of...until the density was sufficient to expel the water, and to leave the bottom dry. This required a period proportioned, in general, to the depth of water... | |
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... for the purpose of hoisting the loaded buckets, and lowering the empty ones. The method followed in working the apparatus was found to be so simple in detail, as to be perfectly intelligible to all the workmen employed. The pumps being set in motion,... 