The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 421
m the mod^l of a machine which ih.tt enthusiastic author had described in 1650,and which (littered from that of Solomon de Cans, by the mere fact, that the motivesteam was engendered in a vessel totally distinct from that which contained the waterto be raised.—Note of M. Arago. It is thus that M.… … t SAVERYS ENGINE. It consisted of a furnace and boiler B ■, from tJie latter two pipes, providedwith cocks C, proceeded to two steam vessels S, whicli had branch pipes froma descending main D, and also to a rising main pipe A; each pair of branchpipes had valves a, h, to prevent the descent of the…
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