The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon . u Let there be a vessell of coppei- about the bignesseof a common foot-ball, as A ; let it have a long pipe atthe top as D, which must be made so that you mayupon occasion screw on lesser, or bigger vents madefor the purpose. Fill this one-third part with water, andset it over a furnace of coals, as E, G, H, I, and whenthe water beginneth to heat, there will come a strong-breath out of the nose of the vessel, that will force th
The life, times, and scientific labours of the second Marquis of Worcester : to which is added a reprint of his Century of inventions, 1663, with a commentary thereon . u Let there be a vessell of coppei- about the bignesseof a common foot-ball, as A ; let it have a long pipe atthe top as D, which must be made so that you mayupon occasion screw on lesser, or bigger vents madefor the purpose. Fill this one-third part with water, andset it over a furnace of coals, as E, G, H, I, and whenthe water beginneth to heat, there will come a strong-breath out of the nose of the vessel, that will force theflame of a lampe placed at a convenient distance as K.—Page 158. Sir Hugh Plat, in his Jewel House of Art and Na-ture, 1594, gives an account of the ordinary fire-blowing iEolipile. He says :— A round ball of copperor lattin, that will blow the fire very strongly, only by the attenuation of waterinto air; which device willalso serve to perfume with.—A round ball of copperor lattin, of the bigness ofa small bowl—a roundpipe or neck, of 3 or 4inches in length, less thana goose quill — and anelbow of a less pipe nobigger tlian a straw, whose. 44 THE CENTURY, vent in the end must be no bigger tlian a pinhole. Heat the same well in the fire, and then put it into avessel of cold water, and it will suck some of the waterinto it, you may heat the same so often, till by thepeize (poise ?) thereof you may be assured that it ismore than half full. Then set this ball on a fewglowing coals, and you shall find the same to give a verystiong blast. ... I make no question but that the samemay be made so large as that they will blow one wholehour together without any intermission.—Page 25. In the second edition of Dr. Frenchs Art of Destil-lation, 1653, page 150, he describes the Philosophi-call Bellowes : one is to blow a furnace fire ; another acandle, serving as a blow-pipe ; and the third for acommon fire. He notes that these kind of vesselsmust be made of copper, and be exceedi
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