Part, §

 1 For    |        knowledge of Newcomen's steam engine. When, therefore,
 2 For    |     the English pioneer of the steam engine, Thomas Newcomen,
 3 Int    |     studied the history of the steam engine, but very few have
 4 Int    |  Mårten Triewald and the first steam engine in Sweden" (to be
 5 Int    |       false principle that the steam rises from or is generated
 6 Int    |        whereas, as he asserts, steam is nothing but moist air
 7 Pre,  2|    tin-solder. The heat of the steam caused the tin-solder to
 8 Pre,  2|      immediately condensed the steam, creating such a vacuum
 9 Pre,  9|      ascribed the power to the steam, which, however, only constitutes
10 Pre, 10|     able to furnish sufficient steam. The cause of this conclusion
11 Pre, 10|      principles concerning the steam which the inventors harboured
12 Pre, 10|       minds, thinking that the steam rises from or is generated
13 Exp    |         2/3 full of water, the steam, when boiling, enclosed
14 Exp    |     The pipe through which the steam is allowed to pass from
15 Exp    |     place when the way for the steam to rise and enter into the
16 Exp    |       is opened, and, when the steam has risen, again closes
17 Exp    |        risen, again closes the steam so that it may be condensed
18 Exp    |       weight, which allows the steam to escape from the boiler
19 Exp    |       from the boiler when the steam gets to strong. ~ ~G. Two
20 Exp    |      in such a way that if the steam is coming from the upper
21 Exp    |      with a valve to allow the steam to escape when it gets too
22 Exp    | adjustable iron pins. When the steam is rushing into the cylinder
23 Exp    |        a C and thus causes the steam to be shut up in the cylinder.
24 Exp    |      is thereby opened and the steam allowed to rush into the
25 Exp    |   pushed up again, because the steam or the air, highly rarefied
26 Exp    |      rain, thus condensing the steam or robbing the air, highly
27 Exp    | reopened, and again allows the steam to enter the cylinder, in
28 Exp    |     puffing valve, because the steam expels the air which steals
29   I,  9|      the fire-machine. For the steam, which is allowed to pass
30   I, 11|    receiver of an air pump) or steam drives the cold air out
31   I, 11|     also quickly heated by the steam and consequenstly requires
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