The Steam Engine and Its Inventors: A Historical SketchMacmillan, 1881 - 260 sider |
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Side vii
... EXPERIMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEIGHT AND PRESSURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE . The atmospheric pressure one of the scientific discoveries of the 17th century - Takes the place of the fallacy that nature abhors a vacuum -Galileo the first to ...
... EXPERIMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEIGHT AND PRESSURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE . The atmospheric pressure one of the scientific discoveries of the 17th century - Takes the place of the fallacy that nature abhors a vacuum -Galileo the first to ...
Side viii
... Experiments to the Royal Society -- His wind - fountain - His project for raising water by the rarefaction of air - Pneumatic apparatus proposed by him for raising any sort of weight out of deep mines - Controversy with Hook . Papin ...
... Experiments to the Royal Society -- His wind - fountain - His project for raising water by the rarefaction of air - Pneumatic apparatus proposed by him for raising any sort of weight out of deep mines - Controversy with Hook . Papin ...
Side ix
... EXPERIMENTS WITH HIGH - PRESSURE STEAM . CLOSING YEARS OF HIS LIFE . Papin removes from Marburg to Cassel - Is employed by the Landgrave of Hesse in various works - Makes some unsuccessful attempts to erect engines on the principle of ...
... EXPERIMENTS WITH HIGH - PRESSURE STEAM . CLOSING YEARS OF HIS LIFE . Papin removes from Marburg to Cassel - Is employed by the Landgrave of Hesse in various works - Makes some unsuccessful attempts to erect engines on the principle of ...
Side x
... experiments to test the comparative merits of his engine and Savery's . He leaves London - Time and place of his death unknown . Pages 72-77 CHAPTER VII . NEWCOMEN'S ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE BROUGHT FORWARD AS AN IMPROVEMENT OF SAVERY'S FIRE ...
... experiments to test the comparative merits of his engine and Savery's . He leaves London - Time and place of his death unknown . Pages 72-77 CHAPTER VII . NEWCOMEN'S ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE BROUGHT FORWARD AS AN IMPROVEMENT OF SAVERY'S FIRE ...
Side xii
... experiments on high - pressure steam with a Papin's " Digester " -Is employed to repair a model of Newcomen's engine belonging to Glasgow University - Discovers great waste of steam , and endeavours to rectify it - Makes experiments on ...
... experiments on high - pressure steam with a Papin's " Digester " -Is employed to repair a model of Newcomen's engine belonging to Glasgow University - Discovers great waste of steam , and endeavours to rectify it - Makes experiments on ...
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afterwards air-pump appears applied atmospheric engine Austhorpe Beighton Blenkinsop's engines boiler Boulton and Watt Boyle built Chacewater chimney Colliery constructed Cornish Engine Cornwall crank Crown 8vo cylinder Davies Gilbert Desaguliers double-acting engine Edition employ steam equilibrium-valve erected Experimental Philosophy experiments Farey feet fire engine fly-wheel force George George Stephenson Glasgow Griff gunpowder high-pressure History Huyghens Ibid improvement inches diameter inches in diameter Inventions of James James Watt John Leeds locomotive engine London machine Mechanical Inventions ments mines motion Muirhead's Newcastle-on-Tyne Newcomen's engine Nicholas Wood North of England obtained Pean pipe piston piston-rod pressure Professor published raising water Robert Stephenson Royal Society Saussaye Savery Savery's engine Smeaton Smiles's Lives steam carriage steam engine steam locomotion steam navigation steam-case stroke success Throckley tons treatise Trevithick tube vacuum valves vessel Vie de Papin waggons Watt's engine Watt's patent weight wheels
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