 | R. Yorke Clarke - 1850 - Страниц: 256
...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 or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher terms it, infra sphcerum activitatis, which is but at... | |
 | George Hamilton - 1850 - Страниц: 60
...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 - Страниц: 646
...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 by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, Infra sphfiram act i ei tata, which is but... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - Страниц: 268
...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, by fire; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that would be what the philosopher calleth it, intra spherum actroctatis, which is, but... | |
 | R. W., Robert Wallace - 1852 - Страниц: 144
...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 by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be, as the philosopher calleth it, 'infra sphsrim activitatis,' which is, but... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - Страниц: 652
...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 - Страниц: 344
...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 by fire ; not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it ' infra sphicram activitatis,' which is but... | |
 | William Chambers - 1853 - Страниц: 858
...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... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - Страниц: 214
...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 - Страниц: 526
...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... 
