The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)
in the followingterms : The third method of raising water is by the aid of fire.On this principle may be constructedvarious machines : I shall here describeone. Let a ball of copper markedA, well soldered in every part, towhich is attached a tube and stop-cock marked d, by which water… … 44 THE STEAM ENGINE. Tilled with water through the tube d, then shutting the stop-cock d, and opening the stop-cock in the vertical tube b c,let the ball be placed upon a fire, the heat acting upon thesaid ball will cause the water to rise in the tube b c. Such is the description of the apparatus…
Steam-engines
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