A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 40
he rude engraving (Fig. 4) above is copied from thebook of Porta, and shows plainly the boiler mounted abovea furnace, from the door of which the flame is seen issuing,and above is the tank containing water. The openmg in thetop is closed by the plug, as shown, and the steam issuing THE PERIOD OP… … Eio. 5.—De Oauss Apparatus, a. d. 1606. 16 THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. Henry IV., and a teacher of Louis XIII., is stated by M.Arago, the French philosopher, to have discovered, as earlyas 1605, that water confined in a bomb-shell and there heat-ed would explode the shell, however thick…
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