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" I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole . and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and... "
The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine - Page 9
1840
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine: From the 7th Ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

John Scott Russell - 1841 - 422 pages
...constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours il burst and made a great crack : so that, having found a way to make my vessels so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain forty...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 608 pages
...it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch- hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty:four...so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - 1842 - 638 pages
...it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch- hole ; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four...so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream...
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The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Volume 41

1844 - 564 pages
...it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing v/i the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it .- within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack. HIS INVENTION. " GENERAL REMARK. — So that having a way to make my vessels (for hot water and for...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 41

Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1844 - 504 pages
...three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and tnaking a constant fire under it : within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great HIS INVENTION. " GENERAL REMARK. — So that having a way to make my vessels (for hot water and for...
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Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge ..., Volume 3

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 902 pages
...filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it : within twentyfour...so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and one to fill after another, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain-stream, forty...
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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2

Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 594 pages
...filled it three-quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end as also the touch-hole; and making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four...vessels so that they are strengthened by the force wtthin them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant stream,...
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A Treatise on the Steam Engine: In Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ...

Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 pages
...filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the open end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four...so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream,...
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The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of ...

384 pages
...bounder, if the vessel be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and made a great crack, so that having a way...so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water to run like a constant fountain stream...
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An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical ..., Volume 1

Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 pages
...three quarters full of pp .'I water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it : within twenty-four hours it burst and made a great crack ; thus having a way to make my vessels, so that they arc strengthened by the iurce within them, and...
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