 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 Seiten
...advance of De Caus towards the use of steam-power." Lord Worcester described one of his inventions as " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire ;" spoke of his " stupendous water-commanding engine," and declared his intention of having his model... | |
 | John Bourne (C.E.) - 1853 - 344 Seiten
...many ingenious and some fantastic and preposterous devices, we have the following fire water- work, "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it ' infra sphicram activitatis,' which is but at such a distance, but this way hath no bounder if the... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - 858 Seiten
...water-work," seems distinctly to convey the idea of a steam-engine: — "An admirable and most forcible way is to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher callcth it, ¿nrr« tplmrum activitutis, which is best at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 Seiten
...which he enumerates, the following is the one which is closely connected with our present subject : " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire; not drawing or sucking it upward, for that must be, as one philosopher calls it, infra sphcerum activitatis,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 Seiten
...one step in advance of Cans towards the use of steam power. His Sixty-eighth Invention is entitled " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." He describes his having made a " constant fountain stream of water, raised in the proportion of forty... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 Seiten
...one step in advance of Caus towards the use of steam power. His Sixty-eighth Invention is entitled " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." He describes his having made a "constant fountain stream of water, raised in the proportion of forty... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 520 Seiten
...one step in advance of Caus towards the use of steam power. His Sixty-eighth Invention is entitled " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire." He describes his having made a "constant fountain stream of water, raised in the proportion of forty... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 Seiten
...invention is a steamengine for raising water, which he thus describes: " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to drive up water by fire; not by drawing...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphcerum activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | James T. Lloyd - 1856 - 334 Seiten
...proposition, in counection with the ninety-ninth and one hundredth of the "Century," and is entitled "An Admirable and Most Forcible Way to Drive up Water by Fire." About twenty years later, (AD 1683,) Sir Samuel Morland prepared a manuscript work, (the original copy... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 Seiten
...Edward, second Marquis of Worcester; in whose 'Century of Inventions,' first published in 1663, occur the following curious articles : — " 68. An admirable...way to drive up " water by fire, not by drawing or slicking it upwards, for " that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, Intra sphaeram •• activitatit,... | |
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An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels... 
