 | Meteorology - 1840 - 908 pages
...première machine à feu) is described in these terms, under the head of the 68th invention: — '• An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, intrà sphœram acíiviíalis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1840 - 574 pages
...terms in the sixty-eighth invention, in the work above named : — " 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 spheerum activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Technology & Engineering - 1840 - 576 pages
...terms in. the sixty-eighth invention, in the work above named : — " 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 sphterum activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | 1840 - 908 pages
...première machine à feu) is described in these terms, under the head of the 68th invention: — •• An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or Bucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, httrà tpharam activitatis, which... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1840 - 288 pages
...air within the vessel. Of the hundred new 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 of his apparatus, it appears... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...most interesting of all the marquess's projects, the sixty-eighth in the list, which he entitles " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire," and which appears from his description to have been, in fact, a species of steam-engine. His language... | |
 | John Scott Russell - Steam-engines - 1841 - 422 pages
...obtaining a patent. " Invention 68 — An admirable most forcible way to drive up water by fire; not drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, ' infra sphseram activitatis/ which is but at such a distance, but this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Fire engines - 1842 - 612 pages
...clearly indicated. The device is named " a fire water work," and is described in the following manner : "An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, //•/(./ sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...clearly indicated. The device is named " a fire water work," and is described in the following manner : " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, Infra sphceram activitatu, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1842 - 516 pages
...Century of Inventions." Of the hundred new 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... | |
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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... 
