A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 39
ntitled to credit as having pro- > Pneumaticorum libri tres, etc., 4to. Naples, 1601. I Pre LibriSpiritaU. Napoli, 1606. 14 THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. posed an essential change in this succession, which beginswith Hero, and which did not end with Watt. . The use of steam in Pleros… … Fi«. 4.—Portas Apparatus, a. c. 1601. the forcing vessel—a plan often claimed as original withlater inventors, and as constituting a fair ground for specialdistinction. The rude engraving (Fig. 4) above is copied from thebook of Porta, and shows plainly the boiler mounted abovea furnace, from the…
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