A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 428
ack of the transmuters of metals — the design of such contrivances was one which few if any of them would have stooped to pursue . Had they made the raising of water by steam a subject of particular study , hardly one of them could have failed to produce a machine similar to Savery ’ s , for every… … No . 187 . A . D . 1606 . Porta . tle ( a ) used for distilling , containing one or two ounces of water . The neck shall be soldered to the bottom of the box so that nothing can escape there . From the same bottom shall proceed a pipe , ( i ) the opening of which shall almost touch it , leaving…
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