 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...has to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." Some of the so-called inventions are ridiculous and absurd. But that relative to the steam engine deserves... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...has to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." Some of the so-called inventions are ridiculous and absurd. But that relative to the steam engine deserves... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1865 - 874 pages
...but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." The first application of steam as a motive power is mentioned by Hero of Alexandria, in his " Tlvsu^fixK."... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1865 - 556 pages
...but to turn two Cocks, that one Vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being...between the necessity of turning the said Cocks." From this account we gather that the Marquis had contrived a plan for raising water by the expansive... | |
 | Henry Dircks - Industrial arts - 1865 - 670 pages
...is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed^ another begins to force and refil with cold water, and so successively, the fire being...the selfsame person may likewise abundantly perform between the necessity of turning the said cocks." And in No. 100, he says, " a child 's force bringeth... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pages
...with cold water, and so successively, the firo being tended, and kept constant, which the self same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." It would appear from the wording of this particular announcement that the Marquis liad no idea of the... | |
 | Henry Dircks - 1867 - 340 pages
...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, the fire being...interim between the necessity of turning the said Cocks. 69. A triangle Key. — A way how a little triangle scrued Key, not weighing a Shilling, shall be capable... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1907 - 600 pages
...being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively ; the fire tended and kept constant, which the self-same person...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." There is in the paragraph quoted a vague foreshadowing of Savery's engine, but neither Savery nor any... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1868 - 448 pages
...but to turn two cocks ; that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively ; the fire being...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." In the accompanying figure of the Marquis of Worcester's engine the boiler is composed of arched iron... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - Steam engineering - 1868 - 602 pages
...has but to turn two cocks that one vessel of water being consumed another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively; the fire being...between the necessity of turning the said cocks." This is the first feasible scheme for raising water by steam pov.vr that history records ; and it is... | |
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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 to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being... 
