A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 42
-,impinged upon the vanes of a horizontal wheel. This itwas proposed to apply to many useful.purposes. Le Machine deverse del Signior Giovanni Branca, cittadino Romano,Ingegniero, Architetto della Sta. Casa di Loretto. Roma MDCXXIX. THE PERIOD OF SPECULATION. 17 At this time experiments were in… … FiG. 6.—Brancas Steam-Engine, A. D. 1629. tinct inventions. These were : 1. To multiply and makesaltpeter in any open field, in fower acres of ground, suffi-cient to serve all our dominions. 2. To raise water fromlow pitts by fire. 3. To make any sort of mills to goe onstanding waters by continual…
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