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The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon (1865)

Dircks, Henry, 1806-1873 · London : B. Quaritch · leaf 518

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the boiler; C, two cockswhich convey the steam from the bottom in order todischarge it again at the top; D, the vessels whichreceive the water from the bottom in order to dischargeit again at the top ; E, valves ; F, cocks which keep up * The original drawiiig is preserved in the arehives of the… … Neither at the time nor afterwards does the inven-tion appear to have attracted any further notice inthat quarter. The next account we have of it is affordedby The Miners Friend, or an Engine to raise Water byFire, by Thomas Savery, Gent, 1702; in which the in-vention appears with two furnaces,…

Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667 · Inventions · Industrial arts -- History

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