. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , in Egypt, then underRoman control. There is reason to be-lieve that the philosophers of that city hadmade some advance in using the pressureof steam for various purposes. But theydid not discover the means of harnessingthat wonderful power to perform usefuloperations. They appear to have beenfamiliar with the principal elements that They had discovered that by filling avessel with steam and then condensing ita vacuum was formed which wouldsuck up water a distance of about 24 pressure direct f
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . , in Egypt, then underRoman control. There is reason to be-lieve that the philosophers of that city hadmade some advance in using the pressureof steam for various purposes. But theydid not discover the means of harnessingthat wonderful power to perform usefuloperations. They appear to have beenfamiliar with the principal elements that They had discovered that by filling avessel with steam and then condensing ita vacuum was formed which wouldsuck up water a distance of about 24 pressure direct from the boiler wasapplied to the vessel containing the raisedwater and by this means it was lifted toanother level. It was a very crude ar-rangement, but it was superior to horsepower for the drainage of deep mines. Engineers familiar with heat prob-lems will understand that the waste ofheat in these operations was had tried putting a pistonin a cylinder to receive the steam pressure,but they did not seem capable of devisingworking connections for the piston. The. THE FATHER OF THE STEAM ENGINE. The Father of the Steam Engine. The queer looking apparatus shown inthe annexed engraving has little resemb-lance to the modern steam engine, yet itpossessed all the leading elements fromwhich a successful steam engine was de- afterwards were employed to make a com-mercially successful steam engine, but theynever understood the combination that putthe elements into working order. From the time this era began untilwithin three centuries ago there were veryfew scientific men. and the few that existedhad other things to attend to that seemedof more importance than working out anew motive power. But as war becameless and less the principal avocation ofmankind, leading minds began to devotetheir attention to put the forces of natureto the service of mankind. During theseventeenth century various savants werespeculating on the possibilities of utilizingthe force of stea
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