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 574
ure ofiron, in his Treatise of Metallica, 1613, among othernecessary parts of his invention, describes the fol-lowing :— A new-devised vetible, round and hollow,with a long spout, to be made of some mettall or pottersearth, wherein water being put, and the same placedon a fire, as it heateth, and… … 543 THE CENTURY, severall peeces with the top or upper part removeableat pleasure, so as the lower part bemg made to standon feet, may serrve at pleasure for a possenet, skelletor boylatory; and when the top is put on, and whenfastened and luted, it may then serve for the ventibleto make the blast.…
Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667 · Inventions · Industrial arts -- History
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