A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 32
ices the spherical vessel is a perfect antici- THE PERIOD OF SPECULATION. 7 pation of the vessels used many centuries later by severalso-called inventors of the steam-engine. Proposition 45 describes the familiar experiment of aball supported aloft by a jet of fluid. In this examplesteam is… … Fia. 2.—Steam Fountain, e. o. 200. A strong, close vessel, A B C D, forms a pedestal, onwhich are mounted a spherical vessel, JS F, and a basin.A pipe, UK, is led from the bottom of the larger vesselinto the upper part of the sphere, and another pipe from thelower part of the latter, in the form of…
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