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 576
ance as K.—Page 158. Sir Hugh Plat, in his Jewel House of Art and Na-ture, 1594, gives an account of the ordinary fire-blowing iEolipile. He says :— A round ball of copperor lattin, that will blow the fire very strongly, only by the attenuation of waterinto air; which device willalso serve to… … 44 THE CENTURY, vent in the end must be no bigger tlian a pinhole. Heat the same well in the fire, and then put it into avessel of cold water, and it will suck some of the waterinto it, you may heat the same so often, till by thepeize (poise ?) thereof you may be assured that it ismore than half…
Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of, 1601-1667 · Inventions · Industrial arts -- History
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