 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...fire-engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this foroe of steam only, by discharging the steam into the open air after it has done its office. " Lastly, instead of using water to render the piston or other parts of the engines air and steam-tight,... | |
 | 1856 - 428 pages
...steam to press on the platón. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging...steam into the open air after it has done its office." A friend of Mr. JP Muirhead saw this model drive a small wagon round the room in Mr. Murdoch's house... | |
 | Patent office - 1858 - 370 pages
...employed in common fire engines. In cases where cold " water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by " this force of steam only, by discharging...into the open " air after it has done its office." 3. The air is drawn from the condenser by an air pump. (a) Bourne on the Serew Propeller, p. 10; Tredgokl's... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1860 - 460 pages
...employed in common fire-engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging...steam into the open air after it has done its office. of the engines air and steam-tight, I employ oils, wax, resinous bodies, fat of Mima!* quicksilver,... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1860 - 474 pages
...employed in common fire-engines. In cases where cold water cannot be haa in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging...the steam into the open air after it has done its ofiice. of the engines air and steam-tight, I employ oils, wax, resinous bodies, fat of animals, quicksilver,... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1866 - 472 pages
...employed in common fire-engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging...steam into the open air after it has done its office. of the engines air and steam-tight, I employ oils, wax, resinous bodies, fat of animals, quicksilver,... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - 1866 - 624 pages
...employed in common fire engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging the steam into the air after it has done its office. " Lastly, Instead of using water to render the pistons and other... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 pages
...employed in common fire-engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by this force of steam only, by discharging...steam into the open air after it has done its office. " Lastly, Instead of using water to render the piston or other parts of the engines air and steam tight,... | |
 | Francis Trevithick - 1872 - 434 pages
...fire-engines. In cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by the force of steam only, by discharging the steam into...where motions round an axis are required, I make the steamvessels in form of hollow rings, on circular channels, with proper inlets and outlets for the... | |
 | Francis Trevithick - 1872 - 432 pages
...specification, " in cases where cold water cannot be had in plenty, the engines may be wrought by the force of steam only, by discharging the steam into the open air after it has done its office," " are enough to indemnify him." Eminent counsel were of opinion that " the words in Watt's specification... | |
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I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the same manner as the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common... 
