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 . ine for raising water by the help of states that Mr. Savery, on the 14th of June, 1699: — Entertained the Royal Society with shewing a modelof his Engine for raising water by the help of fire,which he set to work before them; the experiment suc-ceeded according to expectation, and to their Engine may be understood by the draughts of it,where Fig. 1 is the front of the Engine for raisingAvater by fire; a
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 . ine for raising water by the help of states that Mr. Savery, on the 14th of June, 1699: — Entertained the Royal Society with shewing a modelof his Engine for raising water by the help of fire,which he set to work before them; the experiment suc-ceeded according to expectation, and to their Engine may be understood by the draughts of it,where Fig. 1 is the front of the Engine for raisingAvater by fire; and Fig. 2, the side prospect of theEngine. A, is the furnace ; B, the boiler; C, two cockswhich convey the steam from the bottom in order todischarge it again at the top; D, the vessels whichreceive the water from the bottom in order to dischargeit again at the top ; E, valves ; F, cocks which keep up * The original drawiiig is preserved in the arehives of the Royal Society, coarselyexecuted on paper, measuring 24 by 27 inclics. AVITH NOTES. 485 tlie water, while the valves on occasion are cleaned; G,the force pipe; H, the sucking pipe; and T, the water. Neither at the time nor afterwards does the inven-tion appear to have attracted any further notice inthat quarter. The next account we have of it is affordedby The Miners Friend, or an Engine to raise Water byFire, by Thomas Savery, Gent, 1702; in which the in-vention appears with two furnaces, instead of one, andwith other details. In his description he refers to twovessels, marked P, No. 1, and P, No. 2, which correspondwith the two receivers above, marked D, D. Eemarking on these, in In the above G8th Article, The Miners Friend, the Marquis of Worces- 480 THE CENTURY, Saveiy says:— So thatP, No. l,is by the ex-ternal pressure of theatmosphere, immediate-ly refilled, while P, , is emptying; whichbeing done, you push thehandle of the regulatorfrom you, and throw theforce onP, No. 1, pullingthe condensing pipe ov
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