 I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted...  Transactions - Page 4by Glasgow Archaeological Society - 1868Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 562 pages
...condenser? (as we had been told it was there by persons connected with the College) he said — " No, it was not there. I believe the Faculty would very willingly...it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication teas made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it. and might be there condensed... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 556 pages
...after :— house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was...it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 560 pages
...washinghouse. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was...it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1865 - 562 pages
...my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...and might be there condensed without cooling; the cvlinder. I then saw that I must °ret * rid of the condensed steam and injection-water if I used a... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 762 pages
...his own words, " I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind, that, as steam was...elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and if a connection were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 752 pages
...words, " I was thinking upon tho engine at tho time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, whon the idea came into my mind, that, as steam was an...elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and if a connection were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might... | |
 | 1907 - 600 pages
...iniud that as steam vas au elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, arid that if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel it would rush into it and might there be condensed without cooling the cylinder. I had not walked farther than the golf house when... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pages
...washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that, as steam was...would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 522 pages
...mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and, if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,...it, and might be there condensed without cooling the 1 " Reminiscences of James Watt," Robert Hart ; " Transactions of the Glasgow Archveological Society,"... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 238 pages
...washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was...it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel,2 it would rush into it, and might bo there... | |
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