We are very much mistaken if this is not the result of one of the Marquis’s early experimental model demonstrations, and a happy illustrative example for the lecture-table of raising water by the condensation of steam.
The entertainment was great and plentiful, and my Lady Russell much commended for it.
At this time experiments were in progress in England which soon resulted in the useful application of steam-power to raising water.
The expense and danger, either real or apparent, were thus sufficient to deter many from their use, and the old method of raising water by horse-power was adhered to.
In one of these engines he displaced the atmosphere by the gases produced by the explosion, and the vacuum thus obtained was utilized in raising water by the pressure of the air.
Some engines had also been erected to drive mills indirectly by raising water to turn water-wheels.
Of these I have selected what I considered most useful and necessary, and have thought it best to speak in the preceding book about timepieces, and in this about the methods of raising water.
He also devised methods of raising water, automatic contrivances, and amusing things of many kinds, including among them the construction of water clocks.
I shall now explain the making of the different kinds of engines which have been invented for raising water, and will first speak of the tympanum.
Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant force of fire.
Illustration] The engine suggested by Savery for the purpose of raising water, consisted of a boiler a furnished with a safety valve v.
Mr. Sarjeant has described a very simple and powerful machine for raising water, nearly similar in point of principle to the above.
The great antiquity of this method of raising water is proved by representations of it in Egyptian paintings.
The earliest method of raising water from a well, cistern or other source of supply was by hand.
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