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" ... 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. "
Wonderful Inventions: From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph Cable - Page 191
by John Timbs - 1868 - 400 pages
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 92, Part 2; Volume 132

Early English newspapers - 1822 - 722 pages
...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 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...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1822 - 382 pages
...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 burst, and made a great crack ; so that having found a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the properties of the above engine;...
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The Investigator (or, Quarterly magazine) [ed. by W.B. Collyer, T ..., Volume 5

William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...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 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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 32

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for, 1 bave taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole , and making a constant fire under it,...
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The Register of Arts, and Journal of Patent Inventions, Volume 3

Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1826 - 408 pages
...whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole ; and making a constant fire under...hours it 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...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - Inventions - 1826 - 356 pages
...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...hours it burst, and made a great crack; so that having found a \vay to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one...
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A Course of Lectures on the Steam Engine: Delivered Before the Members of ...

Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1826 - 202 pages
...distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for, I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole ; a»d making a constant fire under...
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History of the Steam Engine: From Its First Invention to the Present Time

Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1826 - 250 pages
...distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three-quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under it...
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The Steam Engine: Comprising an Account of Its Invention ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Thomas Tredgold - Steam-engines - 1827 - 540 pages
...distance. But this way hath no bounder if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled...of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touchhole, and, making a constant fire under it ; within twenty-four hours it burst and...
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History of the Steam Engine, from Its Earliest Invention to the Present Time

Elijah Galloway - Steam-engines - 1828 - 236 pages
...whereof the end was burst, andlilled it three-quarters full, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and making a constant fire under...it 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...
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