 | George Hamilton - 1850 - 60 pages
...improvements on the methods then known, of using steam as a motive power. He speaks of his machine as " an admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by sucking it upwards ;" and calls it " a semi-omnipotent engine." He never, however, published any detailed... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Pumping machinery - 1851 - 646 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 sphfiram act i ei tata, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | Hugo Reid - Steam engineering - 1851 - 292 pages
...others, refer to a steam-engine : — " LXVIII. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water hy fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards — for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, intra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | R. W., Robert Wallace - Steam-engines - 1852 - 144 pages
...1655, and published, at London, in 1663. The following is his own account, marked Invention 68 : — " An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water...sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, 'infra sphsrim activitatis,' which is, but at such a distance ; but this way hath no bounder,... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - Inventions - 1852 - 268 pages
...power for the purposes of utility, and suggested it as applicable to raising water. ' Sixty-eight. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water,...fire; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that would be what the philosopher calleth it, intra spherum actroctatis, which is, but at such a distance.... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...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.) - Steam engineering - 1853 - 344 pages
...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...sucking it 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... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...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...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 if the... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...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 - Biography - 1855 - 520 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
