. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the Marquisof Worcester, who, in 1663, published a March. 1912. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 89 description of his inventions, which wereprincipally used for raising water bysteam. The Marquis of Worcester be-came so deeply interested in this line ofinvention, that he spent a fortune uponit. The general plan followed by Wor-cester and tried in different forms bymany other inventors was to raise waterby means of steam acting on the surfaceof water placed in a vessel that had apipe conne
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the Marquisof Worcester, who, in 1663, published a March. 1912. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 89 description of his inventions, which wereprincipally used for raising water bysteam. The Marquis of Worcester be-came so deeply interested in this line ofinvention, that he spent a fortune uponit. The general plan followed by Wor-cester and tried in different forms bymany other inventors was to raise waterby means of steam acting on the surfaceof water placed in a vessel that had apipe connection with the principle was the same as that usedin sleeping cars to raise water by air pres-sure, with the difference that its tendencyto condense made steam less efficient thanair. Thomas Savery, an English militaryengineer, born about 1650, became a veryenthusiastic inventor of fire engines, andgot some of them into service in drainingmines and in supplying cities with wa-ter. A method of creating a vacuum,which was discovered by Porta, anItalian, in 1601. was used by Savery in. ENGINE. 1703. connection witli his apparatus for rais-ing water by steam pressure. Among others who labored on the de-velopment of the fire engine were Salo-mon de Cans, a French engineer, who be-came insane over the work. Dr. JohnWilkins, bishop of Chester, England, whoapplied the ancient Nero apparatus to asmoke-jack and wanted to use it to drivea flying machine. In 1678 Jean Haute-fcville, a French priest, invented sev-eral engines on paper, one of them toproduce power by the gas from gun-powder or steam pressing upon a engine was not built, but in 1680Christian Huyghens, a Dutchman inventeda gas engine which operated a piston in-side of a cylinder, an important inven-tion, since it was not only the first realapplication of a piston inside of a cyl-inder, but was the prototype of the othergun engine. Dennys Papin, an expatri-ated French physicist, who devoted
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