A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 73
et de faire cuire toutes sortes de vi-andes, etc. 48 THE STEAM-ENGINE AS A SIMPLE MACHINE. which food could he cooked in water raised hy a furnace,A, to the temperature due to any desired safe pressure ofsteam. The pressure was determined and limited by aweight, W, on the safety-valve lever, (?. It… … Fio. 16.—Papins Digester, 1680. From England, Papin went to Italy, where he acceptedmembership and held official position in the Italian Acad-emy of Science. Papin remained in Venice two years, andthen returned to England. Here, in 1687, he announced oneof his inventions, which is just becoming of…
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