. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . R.\iLROAD Scenery—Zig-Zag , South Wales. noticed ever since the first heating of waterand boiling of food for domestic daily occurrence implied by the ex- Railroad,Scenery—Terminus at Spencer Street, Melbourne. of the earliest observed facts connectedwith the expansion of vapor. From allu-sions in the most ancient writings, we maygather that the phenomena exhibited bysteam were closely observed of old. ThusJob, in describing leviathan, alludes tothe puffs or vo
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . R.\iLROAD Scenery—Zig-Zag , South Wales. noticed ever since the first heating of waterand boiling of food for domestic daily occurrence implied by the ex- Railroad,Scenery—Terminus at Spencer Street, Melbourne. of the earliest observed facts connectedwith the expansion of vapor. From allu-sions in the most ancient writings, we maygather that the phenomena exhibited bysteam were closely observed of old. ThusJob, in describing leviathan, alludes tothe puffs or volumes that issue from underthe cover of boiling vessels. By his nees-ings a light doth shine, and Out of hisnostrils goeth smoke as out of a boilingpot or cauldron. In the early use of the vessels lastnamed, and before experience had ren-dered the management of them easy andsafe, females would naturally endeavor toprevent the savory contents of their potsfrom flying off in vapor—hence, attemptswere made to confine it by covers ; andwhen these were not sufficiently tight, acloth o
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