 | Robert Stuart - Steam-engines - 1829 - 372 pages
...the Steam Engine. It is in these words: — " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphœram activitatis, which is but at such a distance ; but this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Robert Stuart - Inventors - 1829 - 550 pages
...and described as capable of the most improbable performance of all his inventions. The announcement is as follows : — -' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not drawing or sucking it upward, for that must he as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphteram actitilatis,... | |
 | Meteorology - 1829 - 906 pages
...Century of Inventions," by the Marquis of Worcester; the following is a copy of that numbered 68. " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing it or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, 'mini sphasram aclivilalis,... | |
 | Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1829 - 890 pages
...manuscript of which is preserved in the British Museum. The following is the Marquis's own description :— "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calls it, infra splueram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1830 - 228 pages
...is given in that work of the contrivance : " I have invented an admirable and forcible way to draw up water by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, intra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 432 pages
...the superjacent air within the Tessel. discoveries here enumerated, the sixty-eighth is entitled ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire.' As far as may be judged from the vague description which the Marquis gives us of his apparatus, it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...the superjacent air within the vessel. discoveries here enumerated, the sixty-eighth is entitled ' An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire.' As far as may be judged from the vague description which the Marquis gives us of his apparatus, it... | |
 | Military art and science - 1833 - 598 pages
...by expansion, we will submit the Marquis's own description of the fire-water work : — No. LXVIII. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, infra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...exquisite way inventible, yet by several trials and much charge, I have perfectly tried all these." 68. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosophers calleth it, infra tphœram acliritalit, which is but at such a distance. But this way... | |
 | Luke Hebert - Industrial arts - 1835 - 938 pages
...original manuscript of this work, written in the year 1655, is now preserved in the British Museum.] "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it ¡nlra Kphavam acltvitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
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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... 
