 | Peter Progress (pseud.) - 1848 - 100 sivua
...contained in the " Sixty-eighth Invention," and is thus worded : — " 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 actimtatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | History - 1849 - 270 sivua
...machine, which he described in his work hi the following terms :— " 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, intra spharam activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | 1849 - 274 sivua
...machine, which ho described in his work in the following terms : — " 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, intra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder... | |
 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - 256 sivua
...contained in the " Sixty-eighth Invention," and is thus worded : — " 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... | |
 | George Hamilton - 1850 - 60 sivua
...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 - 1851 - 646 sivua
...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...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, if the... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1851 - 292 sivua
...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, if the vessels... | |
 | R. W., Robert Wallace - 1852 - 144 sivua
...written in 1655, and published, at London, in 1663. The following is his own account, marked Invention 68 : — " An admirable and most forcible way to drive...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, if the... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 sivua
...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.... | |
 | R. W., Robert Wallace - 1852 - 146 sivua
...a thing which is the distinguishing feature of Captain Savery's ; for he says, " not by drawing it or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, ' intra ipheeram activitatis,' which is, but at such a distance : but this way [by high pressure] 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... 
