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" 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 with cold water, and so successively ; the fire being... "
The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining ... - Page 399
1810
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1829 - 554 pages
...of water rarified by fire driveth tip forty feet of cold water; and a man that tends the work is hut to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being...water, and so successively, the fire being tended aiul kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between...
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Treatise on the Steam Engine

James Renwick - Technology & Engineering - 1839 - 374 pages
...have seen the water to run like a constant fountain forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that attends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins...
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The Steam Engine: Its Origin and Gradual Improvement, from the ..., Volume 1

Paul Rapsey Hodge - Locomotion - 1840 - 266 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...kept constant; which the selfsame person may likewise MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks."...
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Osborne's London & Birmingham railway guide

E.C. and W. Osborne - Birmingham (England) - 1840 - 334 pages
...seen the 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...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the splf-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical ...

Dionysius Lardner - Technology & Engineering - 1840 - 576 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...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the ...

Meteorology - 1840 - 908 pages
...water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot high; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driven up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is bat to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill...
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The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist, Volume 2

1837 - 800 pages
...seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water r, rifled by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man...constant, which the self-same person may likewise * A portion of the preceding invention, No. 67, in our last Number, was by mistake omitted; it is as...
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - Steam-engines - 1841 - 422 pages
...other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain forty feet high. One vessel of water, rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that attends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins...
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A Manual of the Steam Engine

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Steam engine - 1842 - 348 pages
...a cannon ; and, under the head of a Fire Water Work, he states: — " One vessel of water rarefied by fire, driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man...the fire being tended and kept constant ; which the self- same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 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...the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the...
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