A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1842)
Ewbank, Thomas · Tilt & Bogue · leaf 589
one times . No . 285 is a steam blow - pipe from the 2d edit . of John Bate ’ s work . His description forms an admirable comment on Wilkins ’ s observation , ( p . 396, ) that eolipiles were used in melting glass and metals . This remark of the bishop has been quoted by several writers , but not… … No . 285 . Eolipile for glass blowing . No . 286 . Eolipile for fusing metals . The first figure consists of a lamp and a copper ball or eolipile , placed on and heated by a furnace or brazier . The apparatus is named “ a device to bend glasse canes , [ tubes, ] or to make any small work in glasse…
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