The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 420
tion of imoritv, it is, by its publication,forty-eight years older than the Centunj of InuentionSy and forty-oneyears antecedent to the imprisonment of Worcester Thus brought back to a comparison of dates, the dispute would seemto be closed ; for who could maintain that 1618 did not happen… … * lMARQUIS of WORCESTERS ENGINE. B is the boiler; C, one of the vessels with a pipe to deliver the water toan elevated cistern D. >iow suppose tlie vessel C to be supplied from a cistern of cold water A by apipe, so that it would be lilled on opening the cock E, and attei-wards closingh\ if,…
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