 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...  THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW - Page 325by APRIL AUGUST - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1802 - 556 pages
...stream forty foot high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire drivcth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill wjth cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the selfsame person... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1803 - 596 pages
...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,....fire being tended and kept *' constant, which the self same person may like" wise abundantly perform in the interim between " the necessity of turning... | |
 | 1803 - 598 pages
...raised forty of cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but... | |
 | 1803 - 614 pages
...raised forty qf cold. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks, &o that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." Such are the Marquis's own words, but... | |
 | Thomas Lupton - 1815 - 262 pages
...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, is but to turn two cocks,...-water being consumed, another begins to force and re-, fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the... | |
 | 1822 - 712 pages
...forty feet high ; one vesiel of water, rarificd by lire, <liivc-t.li up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...another begins to force and refill with cold water, anil to successively, the 6re being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 444 pages
...40 of cold water. The person who conducted the operation had nothing to do but turn two cocks ; so that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force, and then to fill itself with cold water, and so on in succession." In a work entitled the " Miner's Friend,''''... | |
 | 1825 - 616 pages
...fire, driveth up forty of cold water, (or in other words, forty times the quantity in the boiler.) A man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks,...another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, (by the pressure of the atmosphere,) and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 pages
...will be filling, and vice versa, which agrees with the marquis's account when he says, " that the man is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force," &c.' — p. 108.* It is certainly possible, though we do not conceive it probable, that the marquess... | |
 | 1825 - 490 pages
...the Marquis of Worcester's description, where he says, that " a man has but to turn two cocks, and that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill." The condensation of the steam opens and shuts the valves, and fills the vessels, but this use of the... | |
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