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" 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... "
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The Industrial History of England

Abbott Payson Usher - 1920 - 602 pages
...old washing house. I was thinking of the engine at the tune. I 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 exhausting vessel it would rush into it and might...
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A History of Engineering

Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - 1925 - 330 pages
...old 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, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed...
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Man and Civilization ...

John Storck - 1926 - 240 pages
...washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time and had gone so 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...
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Man and Civilization: An Inquiry Into the Bases of Contemporary Life

John Storck - 1927 - 468 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, it would rush into it, and might i>e there condensed without cooling the cylinder. ... I had not walked further than the golf-house...
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Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine

Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 pages
...gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon ... I was thinking upon the engine at the time . . . when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rish into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted body, it...
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Energy and Society: An Introduction

Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 pages
...piston, that is always hot and one that is always cold (Figure 10.6J. . . . as steam was an clastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made benveen the Cylinder and the exhausted vessel, it would rush into it and might be there condensed,...
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Watt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention

Ben Marsden - 2002 - 234 pages
...recalled the day: / 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 communication was made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might...
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Pushing to the Front

Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 465 pages
...washinghouse, thinking upon the engine at the time, when the idea came into my head that, as steam is an elastic body, 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...
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Dictionary of Energy

Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher G. Morris - 2005 - 512 pages
...many as the most important book of science ever written). "I was thinking upon the engine at the time, 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...
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Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber

Stephen Yafa - 2006 - 436 pages
...epiphany in 1765. "I was thinking of the engine at the time. I 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 the exhausting vessel, it might there be condensed without...
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