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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/46879-0.txt b/46879-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ba6ac6 --- /dev/null +++ b/46879-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1761 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Miner's Friend, by Thomas Savery + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most +other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions +whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + +Title: The Miner's Friend + An Engine to Raise Water by Fire + +Author: Thomas Savery + +Release Date: September 17, 2014 [EBook #46879] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + + + + +Produced by Steffen Haugk + + + + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN THOMAS SAVERY, The inventor of the steam engine - see frontispiece.gif] + + +THE +MINER’S FRIEND; +OR, +~An Engine~ +TO +RAISE WATER BY FIRE, +DESCRIBED. +AND OF THE MANNER OF FIXING IT IN MINES; +WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL OTHER USES IT +IS APPLICABLE UNTO; AND AN +ANSWER TO THE OBJECTIONS MADE AGAINST IT. +BY +THOMAS SAVERY, Gent. + +Pigri est ingenii contentum esse his, quæ ab aliis inventa sunt. + SENECA. + +LONDON: PRINETD FOR S. CROUCH, AT THE CORNER +OF POPE’S HEAD-ALLEY IN CORNHILL. 1702. + +Reprinted, 1827. + + + + +LONDON: +Printed by W. Clowes. +Stanford-street + + + + +TO THE KING. + + +SIR, +Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment +before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described +in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming +satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously +enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to +pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it +being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with +that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but +it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty’s +subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, +all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, +seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty’s sacred +protection. + +It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound +respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your +Majesty’s royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it +had birth in your Majesty’s auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to +perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal +approbation, which is the utmost ambition of, + + May it please your Majesty, + Your Majesty’s + most humble, most loyal, + and most obedient Subject, + + THOMAS SAVERY. + + + + +TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY. + + +At the request of some of your members, at the weekly meeting, at +Gresham-college, June the 14th, 1699, I had the honour to work a small +model of my engine before you, and you were pleased to approve of it. +Since which I have met with great difficulties and expense, to +instruct handicraft artificers to form my engine according to my +design; but my workmen, after so much experience, are become such +masters of the thing, that they oblige themselves to deliver what +engines they make me exactly tight and fit for service, and as such I +dare warrant them to any body that has occasion for them. + +Your kindness in countenancing this invention in its first appearance +in the world, gives me hopes the usefulness of it will make it more +acceptable to your honourable Society, as they are the most proper +judges of what advantage it may be to mankind. And it would be +ungrateful in me not to make use of this opportunity to return you my +most humble and hearty thanks for the honour and favour you did me in +approving my design, and publishing it to the world,[1] which shall be +always acknowledged by + + Your most obliged + and most humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + +[1] Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 252. + + + + +TO THE +GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS +IN THE +MINES OF ENGLAND. + + +I am very sensible a great many among you do as yet look on my +invention of raising water by the impellent force of fire, a useless +sort of a project, that never can answer my designs or pretensions; +and that it is altogether impossible that such an engine as this can +be wrought under ground, and succeed in the raising of water, and +draining your mines, so as to deserve any encouragement from you. I am +not very fond of lying under the scandal of a bare projector; and, +therefore, present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay +before you the uses of it, and leave it to your consideration whether +it be worth your while to make use of it or no. I can easily give +grains of allowance for your suspicions, because I know very well what +miscarriages there have been by people ignorant of what they pretend +to. These I know have been so frequent, so fair and promising at +first, but so short of performing what they pretended to, that your +prudence and discretion will not now suffer you to believe any thing +without a demonstration, your appetites to new inventions of this +nature having been balked too often; yet, after all, I must beg you +not to condemn me, before you have read what I have to say for myself; +and let not the failures of others prejudice me, or be placed to my +account. I have often lamented the want of understanding the true +powers of nature, which misfortune has, of late, put some on making +such vast engines and machines, both troublesome and expensive, yet of +no manner of use, inasmuch as the old engines, used many ages past, +far exceeded them; and I fear, whoever, by the old causes of motion, +pretends to improvements within this last century, does betray his +knowledge and judgment; for more than an hundred years since, men and +horses would raise by engines, then made, as much water as they have +ever since done, or I believe ever will, or according to the law of +nature ever can do; and though my thoughts have been long employed +about water-works, I should never have pretended to any invention of +that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much +stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion, than any before made +use of. But finding this of rarefaction by fire, the consideration of +the difficulties the miners and colliers labour under by the frequent +disorders, cumbersomeness, and in general of water-engines, encouraged +me to invent engines to work by this new force; that though I was +obliged to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable difficulties, I +spared neither time, pains, nor money, till I had absolutely conquered +them. I hope this will, at least, encourage you to read over this +small treatise I now put into your hands, for the further and more +particular information of the nature and uses of this engine for +raising water by the force of fire; after which, I shall patiently +submit to any judgment you shall please to pass upon me or the +invention, and may have reason to believe you will not any longer +suffer your judgments to be imposed on by those, whose profit and +interest it may seem to be to condemn both right and wrong; I mean +such who make your common gins, and their friends and acquaintance +among you; though I am very sure the promotion of the use of this +engine is their true interest, as I very plainly prove thus:-- + +The cheaper water is drawn, the more is the miner encouraged to +adventure; the more the miner adventures, the more pits or shafts must +be sunk; the more shafts or pits are sunk, the more wood-work will be +necessarily employed in timbering them, or supporting the sides from +falling in where the earth is loose; besides windlasses and all other +utensils of wood used in mines, or the trades depending thereon must +be more, which, by increasing the carpenters’ trade in general, will +make them sufficient amends for the loss of a small part of that +branch of their trade, called gin-making. As for pump-making, that +part of the trade will be much improved by my engine; for I must use +board and timber for pipes, and have considerable employment for +pump-makers and carpenters for timber used about my engine; but shall +never employ any other person in making pipes, or any other +carpenter’s work I shall have to do, but the person who was before +employed in the work, or such as shall be recommended, as a person +employed in the mines of the country wheresoever I shall fix engines, +provided they will work as cheap, and fairly, and observe the orders +and directions given them; for my design is not, in the least, to +prejudice the artificers, or, indeed, any other sort of people by this +invention; but, on the contrary, is intended for the benefit and +advantage of mankind in general, especially the people of my own +nation; and wherein, you gentlemen concerned in mines, may, if you +please, reap the greatest profit. + +And although I do not question but the plan and draught of my engine +will be very well and readily understood with many gentlemen, by the +description here given; yet it will require a longer time in others to +employ their minds and thoughts more intensely about it, especially +such as have not been familiar and acquainted with things of this +kind; but should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem +intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have +given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the +attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is +familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a +very little time; insomuch, that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen +years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were +taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the +engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; +and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when +you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to +yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other +advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works +in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the +labours of + + Your real Friend and humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + _London, +Sept. 22,_ 1701. + + + + +A DESCRIPTION +OF THE +DRAUGHT OF THE ENGINE, +FOR RAISING WATER BY FIRE. + + + _a_, _a_, The furnaces. + _b_, B, the two fire-places. + _c_, the funnel or chimney. + _d_, the small boiler. + _e_, the pipe and cock of it. + _f_, the screw that covers and confines its force. + _g_, a small cock, a pipe going within eight inches of its bottom. + _h_, A larger pipe going the same depth. + _i_, a clack on the top of the said pipe. + _k_, a pipe going from the box of the said clack or valve, into the +great boiler, about an inch into it. + _l_, the great boiler. + _m_, the screw with the regulator. + _n_, a small cock and pipe going half way down the great boiler. + _o_, O, steam-pipes, one end of each screw to the regulator, and the +other ends to the receivers. + _p_, P, the vessels called receivers. + _q_, q, the screws which bring on the pipes and clacks in the front +of the engine. + _r_, _r_, R, R, valves or clack of brass, with screws to open and +come at them upon occasion. + _s_, the force-pipe. + _t_, the sucking-pipe. + _v_, a square frame of wood, with holes round its bottom in the +water. + _x_, a cistern with a buoy-cock coming from the force-pipe. + _y_, a cock and pipe coming from the bottom of the said cistern. + _z_, the handle of the regulator. + + + + + +CHAPTER FIRST. +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + + +The first thing is to fix the engine in a good double furnace, so +contrived that the flame of your fire may circulate round and +encompass your two boilers to the best advantage, as you do coppers +for brewing. Before you make any fire, unscrew _g_ and _n_, being the +two small gauge-pipes and cocks belonging to the two boilers, and at +the holes, fill _l_, the great boiler, two-thirds full of water, and +_d_, the small boiler, quite full; then screw in the said pipes again +as fast and light as possible; then light the fire at _b_. When the +water in _l_ boils, the handle of the regulator, marked _z_, must be +thrust from you as far as it will go, which makes all the steam rising +from the water in _l_ pass with irresistible force through _o_ into +_p_, pushing out all the air before it, through the clack, _r_, making +a noise as it goes; and when all is gone out, the bottom of the +vessel, _p_, will be very hot; then pull the handle of the regulator +to you, by which means you stop _o_, and force your steam through _o_ +into the _p_, until that vessel has discharged its air through the +clack, _r_, up the force-pipe. In the mean time, by the steam’s +condensing in the vessel _p_, a vacuum or emptiness is created, so +that the water must, and will, necessarily, raise up, through _t_, the +sucking-pipe, lifting up the clack, _r_, and filling the vessel, _p_. + +In the mean time, the vessel, _p_, being emptied of its air, turn the +handle of the regulator from you again, and the force is upon the +surface of the water in _p_, which surface being only heated by the +steam, it does not condense it, but the steam gravitates or presses +with an elastic quality like air; still increasing its elasticity or +spring, till it counterpoises, or rather exceeds the weight of the +water ascending in _s_, the forcing-pipe, out of which, the water in +_p_ will be immediately discharged when once gotten to the top, which +takes up some time to recover that power; which having once got, and +being in work, it is easy for any one that never saw the engine, after +half an hour’s experience, to keep a constant stream running out the +full bore of the pipe, _s_; for, on the outside of the vessel, _p_, +you may see how the water goes out, as well as if the vessel were +transparent; for, as far as the steam continues within the vessel, so +far is the vessel dry without, and so very hot, as scarce to endure +the least touch of the hand; but as far as the water is, the said +vessel will be cold and wet, where any water has fallen on it; which +cold and moisture vanishes as fast as the steam, in its descent, takes +place of the water; but if you force all the water out, the steam, or +a small part thereof, going through _r_, will rattle the clack, so as +to give sufficient notice to pall the handle of the regulator to you, +which, at the same time, begins to force out the water from _p_, +without the least alteration of the stream; only, sometimes, the +stream of water will be somewhat stronger than before, if you pull the +handle of the regulator before any considerable quantity of steam be +gone up the clack, _r_; but it is much better to let none of the steam +go off, for that is but losing so much strength, and is easily +prevented, by polling the regulator some little time before the vessel +forcing is quite emptied. This being done, immediately turn the cock +or pipe of the cistern, _x_, on _p_, so that the water proceeding from +_x_, through _y_, which is never open but when turned on _p_, or _P_; +but when between them, is tight and stanch; I say, the water, falling +on _p_, causes, by its coolness, the steam, which had such great force +just before to its elastic power, to condense, and become a vacuum or +empty apace, so that the vessel, _p_, is, by the external pressure of +the atmosphere, or what is vulgarly called suction, immediately +refilled, while _p_ is emptying; which being done, you push the handle +of the regulator from you, and throw the force on _p_, pulling the +condensing pipe over _p_, causing the steam in that vessel to +condense, so that it fills, while the other empties. The labour of +turning these two parts of the engine, viz. the regulator and +water-cock, and attending the fire, being no more than what a boy’s +strength can perform for a day together, and is as easily learned as +their driving of a horse in a tub-gin; yet, after all, I would have +men, and those, too, the most apprehensive, employed in working of the +engine, supposing them more careful than boys. The difference of this +charge is not to be mentioned or accounted of, when we consider the +vast profit which those who use the engine will reap by it. + +The ingenious reader will, probably, here object, that the steam being +the cause of this motion and force, and that steam is but water +rarefied, the boiler, _l_, must in some certain time be emptied, so as +the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler, or endanger +the burning out or melting the bottom of the boiler. + +To answer which, please to observe the use of the small boiler, _d_, +when it is thought fit by the person tending the engine to replenish +the great boiler, which requires an hour and a half, or two hours’ +time to the sinking one foot of water; then, I say, by turning the +cock of the small boiler, _e_, you cut off all communication between +_s_, the great force-pipe, and _d_, the small boiler, by which means +_d_ grows immediately hot, by throwing a little fire into _b_, and the +water of which boils, and in a very little time it gains more strength +than the great boiler; for the force of the great boiler being +perpetually spending and going out, and the other winding up, or +increasing, it is not long before the force in _d_ exceeds that in +_l_, so that the water in _d_ being depressed in _d_ by its own steam +or vapour, must necessarily rise through the pipe, _h_, opening the +clack, _i_, and so go through the pipe, _k_, into _l_, running till +the surface of the water in _d_ is equal to the bottom of the pit, +_h_; then steam and water going together, will, by a noise in the +clack, _i_, give sufficient assurance that _d_ has discharged and +emptied itself into _l_, to within eight inches of the bottom; and +inasmuch as, from the top of _d_ to the bottom of its pipe, _h_, is +contained about as much water as will replenish _l_, one foot, so you +may be certain _l_ is replenished one foot of course; then you open +the cock, _i_, and refill _d_ immediately; so that here is a constant +motion without fear or danger of disorder, or decay, if you would, at +any time, know if the great boiler, _l_, be more than half exhausted, +turn the small cock, _n_, whose pipe will deliver water, if the water +be above the level of its bottom, which is half way down the boiler; +if not, it will deliver steam. So, likewise, will _g_ show you if you +have more or less than eight inches of water in _d_, by which means +nothing but a stupid and wilful neglect, or mischievous design, +carried on for some hours, can any ways hurt the engine; and if a +master is suspicious of the design of a servant to do mischief, it is +easily discovered by those gauge-pipes; for if he come when the engine +is at work, and find the surface, _c_, of the water in _l_, below the +bottom of the gauge-pipe, _n_, or the water in _d_ below the bottom of +_g_, such a servant deserves correction, though three hours after +that, the working on would not damage or exhaust the boilers; as that, +in a word, the clacks being in all water-works always found the better +the longer they are used, and all the moving parts of our engine being +of like nature, the furnace being made of Stourbridge, or Windsor +brick, or fire-stone, I do not see it possible for the engine to decay +in many years; for the clacks, boxes, and mitre-pipe, regulator, and +cocks, are all of brass; and the vessels made of the best hammered +copper, of sufficient thickness to sustain the force of the working +the engine. In short, the engine is so naturally adapted to perform +what is required, that even those of the most ordinary and meanest +capacity may work it for some years without any injury, if not hired +or employed by some base person on purpose to destroy it; for after +the engine is once fixed, and at work, I may modestly affirm that the +adventurer, or supervisor of the mine, will be freed from that +perpetual charge, expense, and trouble of repairs, which all other +engines ever yet employed in mines for the raising of water, are +continually liable unto. + + + + +CHAPTER SECOND. +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + +* * * * * + +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE +MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + + +It may be supposed that there are few people among us so ignorant, but +must necessarily know of what value the falls of water are in most +places, as being applicable to mills, which are made after various +kinds and forms, according to the different genius and abilities of +the millwright, for mill-work being in a manner infinitely +diversified; and had I leisure to comment thereon, and give you an +account, not only of the vast variety that I have seen and heard of, +but (when encouraged) what may yet be brought to work by a steady +stream, and the rotation or circular motion of a water-wheel, it would +swell these papers to a much larger volume than was at first designed, +and frustrate my intended brevity. I only just hint this to show what +use this engine may be put to in working of mills, especially where +coals are cheap. + +I have only this to urge, that water, in its fall from any determinate +height, has simply a force answerable and equal to the force that +raises it. So that an engine which will raise as much water as two +horses working together at one time in such a work can do, and for +which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the +same, then, I say, such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or +twelve horses; and whereas this engine may be made large enough to do +the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses +to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work, it will be +improper to stint or confine its uses and operation in respect of +water-mills. + +2. It may be of great use for palaces, for the nobility’s or +gentlemen’s houses; for, by a cistern on the top of a house, yoy may, +with a great deal of ease and little charge, throw what quantity of +water you have occasion for to the top of any house; which water, in +its fall, makes you what sorts of fountains you please, and supplies +any room in the house, and it is of excellent use in case of fire, of +which more hereafter. + +3. Nothing can be more fit for serving cities and towns with water, +except a crank-work by the force of a river. In the composing such +sort of engines, I think no person hath excelled the ingenious Mr. +George Sorocold; but where they are forced to use horses, or any other +strength, I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have +the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any +yet discovered or invented. + +4. As for draining fens, marshes, &c. I suppose I need say no more +than this, that that force which will raise great quantities of water +a height of above eighty feet, must necessarily deliver a much greater +quantity at a lesser height; and that it is much cheaper, and every +way easier, especially where coals are water-borne, to continue the +discharge of any quantities of water by our engine, than it can be +done by any horse-engines whatsoever. + +5. I believe it may be made very useful to ships, but I dare not +meddle with that matter, and leave it to the judgment of those who are +the best judges of maritime affairs. + +6. For draining of mines and coal-pits the use of the engine will +sufficiently recommend itself in raising water so easy and cheap; and +I do not doubt, but that, in a few years, it will be a means of making +our mining trade, which is no small part of the wealth of this +kingdom, double, if not treble to what it now is. And if such vast +quantities of lead, tin, and coals, are now yearly exported, under the +difficulties of such an immense charge and pains as the miners, &c. +are now at to discharge their water, how much more may be hereafter +exported, when the charge will be very much lessened by the use of +this engine every way fitted for the use of mines? For the far greater +part of our richest mines and coal-pits are liable to two grand +inconveniences, and thereby rendered useless, viz. the irruption and +excess of subterraneous waters, as not being worth the expense of +draining them by the great charge of horses, or hand labour. Or, +secondly, fatal damps, by which many are struck blind, lame, or dead, +in these subterraneous cavities, if the mine is wanting of a due +circulation of air. Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally +remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant +force of fire. + +For the water, be the mine ever so deep, each engine working it sixty, +seventy, or eighty feet high, by applying or setting the engines one +over another, as shall be showed at large hereafter in the following +pages, you may, by a sufficient number of engines, keep the bottom of +any mine dry; and when once you know how large your feeder or spring +is, it is very easy to know what sized engine, or what number of +engines will do your business. + +The coals used in this engine is of as little value as the coals +commonly burned on the mouths of the coal-pits are; for an engine of a +three-inch bore, or thereabout, working the water up sixty feet high, +requires a fire-place of not above twenty inches deep, and about +fourteen or fifteen inches wide, which will occasion so small a +consumption, that in a coal-pit it is of no account, as we have +experienced. And in all parts of England, where there are mines, coals +are so cheap, that the charge of them is not to be mentioned, when we +consider the vast quantity of water raised by the inconsiderable value +of the coals used and burnt in so small a furnace. What the quantity +of coals used for one engine in a year is cannot easily be +ascertained, because of the different nature of the several sorts of +coals. + +As for the cure of damps by this engine, the air perpetually crowding +into the ash-hole and fire-place, as it is natural for it to do, and +with a most impetuous force discharged with the smoke at the top of +the chimney, the contiguous air is successively following it; so that +not only all steams or vapours whatsoever, that may or can arise, must +naturally force its way through the fire, and so be discharged at the +top with the smoke, but this motion of the fire will occasion the +fresh air to descend from above down all the pits, and every where +else in the mine, but down the chimney; provided you have a heading +drift, or passage from all the shafts or pits in the work, to that +place where the engine stands; whether the mouth of the said pit and +chimney be lower or higher than the mouths of any of the rest of the +pits or shafts in the same work it matters not, for here will be a +perpetual circulation of the air, and with that swiftness as is hardly +to be believed. This I have tried and know to be true, so leave the +ingenious miner to his own judgment, whether, when all the air is in a +swift motion, that any stagnation of air (which has always been +adjudged the cause of damps) can happen in any pit. + + + + +CHAPTER THIRD. +THE MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND +GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER +IN GENERAL. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE +FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, +AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER IN GENERAL. + + +1. For mills. The engine must be made and proportioned according to +the quantity of water required to drive the mill you would make use +of. Now suppose you would make a mill on a plain place, where you will +have only a pond, and a small spring of water no bigger than a quill; +then you must build your mill-house thirty-six feet high, in which you +may make what motions, and what sort of mills you please. By the side +of which house without, may be placed your water-wheel of thirty-two, +thirty-three, or thirty-four feet diameter. For the height of either +house or wheel I would confine no person too exactly, but I guess that +a convenient height, and no more than what is common enough. Under the +wheel I would have a pond, and on the top of the house a cistern of +wood lined with lead. The engine may be fixed in any corner of the +mill-house, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two feet, or more, from the +level of the pond: there two boilers must be fixed, as shown you in +the draught for fixing the engine; and round each of them it is +convenient to have a hoop of iron, with straps coming from them to +rest on the brick-work, to support and strengthen them. Your clacks +and pipes in the front being supported by wood, and the vessels +standing on pedestals of wood, it is convenient that the flue, or +chimney, be so contrived as to draw very sharp, and the flue to +circulate round both the boilers, so that you may lose no part of your +strength. + +2. For palaces, or the nobility’s or gentlemen’s houses, you may fix +the engine in any remote or out-room, whose floor is not above twenty +feet from the level of your water, and you may continue your +force-pipe to the top of your house, with a convenient cistern to hold +your water; into which lay the pipes which may convey the water as you +want it, either for pleasure or common occasions. This way of cisterns +on the top of your houses or palaces would be of singular use in case +of fire, as is said before; for in every staircase a pipe may go down +the corner, or behind the wainscot, so as to be no blemish even to the +finest of staircases. At every floor there may be a turn-cock with a +screw. At the utmost end have likewise a small leather pipe, kept well +oiled in a cupboard, or cavity in your wall, which may not be seen, +but on the opening some part of the wainscot, or such other +contrivance as the ingenious builder shall think fit to make use of. +This pipe of leather must be long enough to reach from the +landing-place, or stair-head, in all rooms depending thereon. One end +of this pipe has a screw to fit the cock in the other pipe, and at the +other end a pipe like the nose of a pair of bellows; so that wherever, +though under a bed, or the remotest part of any room in the house, the +fire breaks out, or is discovered, any servant having screwed the pipe +to the cock, stops the nozle with his thumb till he comes to the place +where the fire is, when, taking away his thumb, he, by directing the +nozle to the fire, immediately extinguishes it, which being liable to +be instantly used, I think a house, palace, &c. that has this +invention, may be said to be morally out of danger of being destroyed, +or so far injured as Whitehall and Kensington have been within a few +years. This command of water must be allowed to be of vast advantage +to any house whatsoever. Where brewing, washing, &c. is used, the +copper standing high may be filled as easy as if it stood low, by +which means the hot liquor may be contrived to go to all your coolers, +and other vessels, either by a syphon, stop-cock, &c. without the +hand-labour of pumping or bailing with buckets. But more conveniencies +than we can at present foresee will be discovered in the use of this +engine for palaces, houses, &c. + +3. For fens, and the like, it is convenient that these engines be made +very large; for at all small heights a small quantity of fire will +deliver prodigious quantities of water. For suppose we force but +thirty feet, and suck twenty feet, if the boiler does but fill the +vessels, called receivers, with steam strong enough to counterpoise or +exceed the force of the atmosphere, or spring of the common air, it +will discharge them at so small a height as thirty feet force in a +very little time; and the steam having very little force or spring is +immediately condensed, so that it will presently suck full in one of +the vessels while the other is discharged. Now, inasmuch as the fire +being more or less adds nothing to the suction. I think such lifts, +being seldom above thirty-six feet, or under six feet, all the +directions further needful for fixing the engine for this use is, in +all lifts under twenty-four feet, to place your engine so as a little +above your force-clacks may be the place of the delivery of your water +into a convenient trough or lander, to be carried off at the most +proper place for its discharge. If it be any height above twenty-four +feet, you have nothing to do but to continue the length of your +force-pipe to the height required. It ought to have a shed or covering +round it, and to be placed at the lowest place of your fen or bog, as +other engines designed for that purpose commonly are. + +As for fixing the engine in ships, when they may be thought probably +useful, I question not but we may find conveniency enough for fixing +them. + +In mines and coal-pits the manner of fixing the engines is this; your +pit being sunk, and a sump, or proper well, or bottom cistern, made to +receive the water coming from the several feeders or springs. +Supposing an engine, carrying three and a quarter inch bore, is to be +fixed to deliver water about seventy feet high, constant running a +full bore; in such case you make a small room in your shaft or pit, +which, together with your shaft or pit, is nine feet square every way. +As for example, suppose your shaft six feet by four, take three feet +out of one side, and five out of another perpendicular nine feet, +making a small floor or platform of boards over that part of the shaft +which goes down to your sump or bottom cistern, so you have a complete +room big enough for your engine, where ten or twelve people may stand +on occasion. This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty +feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into +the sump or bottom cistern. If your ground be loose, it is convenient +to line this room with brick; if rock, it may support itself. But in +this the miner’s judgment must direct him. That the engine will stand +best in the side of the pit where most is dug away, you may see in the +second figure of the engine, being fixed in a mine. Your pipes, &c. +must be fixed with cramps of iron, wood, or such materials as are +convenient, to the side of the pit or shaft, so as to make it stand as +firm as the very shaft itself. Your furnace must be so contrived, that +your flame take a turn or two round each of the boilers, which any +brick-layer used to furnaces can do; it being performed by running a +row of bricks round them both like a screw or worm, which being +contiguous to the wall of the furnaces and the boilers, makes it, as +it were, a worm-funnel round them both; from whence you may continue +your chimney to the top of your work, which you fasten to the sides of +your shafts in the corners as you please, either with iron or wood, or +both, according to the nature of the ground. And wherever you make a +sudden bend or nook near a right angle in the chimney, have a loose +brick or stone to take out the soot, if any should settle in such +place, which in long working it may do. + + + + +SEVERAL OBJECTIONS +AGAINST THE +WORKING THIS ENGINE ANSWERED, +IN +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + + + +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + +_Miner_. Sir, having been some time concerned in the engines now used +for drawing water out of our mines, and hearing so much talk of this +wonderful invention of yours, of raising water by fire, I was very +desirous to enter into some discourse with you concerning the nature, +use, and application of your engine, so strangely differing from all +other engines ever yet invented for our works, and which, you +positively affirm, will every way tend so much to our advantage in the +use of them; and I do not doubt of meeting with that plainness, +freedom, and good humour, that your discourse is generally accompanied +with. And with the same freedom resolve me in such questions as the +general sense of us miners may naturally propose to object against the +use of your engine, especially such of us as are yet ignorant of its +use and operation, who are more capable to judge of fact, than of the +nature and power of that force which raises your water. + +_Author_. Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for your freedom, and +shall readily embrace all opportunities to inform and explain to you +the true use and nature of my engine; and, therefore, desire you, with +all imaginable freedom, to proceed and ask what questions you please, +either as to your own thoughts, as well as what has been suggested to +you by others. And you may be assured of a plain and candid answer to +all your objections. + +_Miner_. Then, sir, which way will you go to work with your engine to +clear an old work full of water? + +_Author_. Why, sir, to deal plainly with you, if your shafts are, or +may be cut straight, your tub-engines, or chain pumps, may draw forth +the water. And the charge, in that respect, is not to be accounted +for, because no mine would be thrown up or neglected but on account of +the feeders or springs, which being certain, and constantly to be +carried off winter and summer, the prospect of being likely to +succeed, makes your mine worth working or emptying within twenty feet +of the bottom, if ever they were worth sinking, though you work or +drain by the common way of tubs or chain-pumps. And could the constant +charge of those engines be afforded, numbers of them will empty and +keep under any work; but it is the constant charge of carrying off +what the springs bring in is the chief thing to be considered in the +business of mines, which constant charge is what we lessen very much +by this engine of mine. + +_Miner_. What signifies your engine then, sir, if it be not capable of +sinking or forking an old mine? + +_Author_. Hold, my good friend, a little patience; I have dealt +plainly and impartially with you about the use of your old engines: +and for my engine, it will clear an old work, if full of water, as +readily as your tub-gins or chain-pumps, provided the shafts are good. +The method I propose to clear an old mine, if sixty feet deep, and +full of water, the feeders not above two-inch bore, which is done at a +very small charge after this manner; _viz_. I fix my engine on the top +of the mine, and only suck and deliver a three and a quarter inch +bore; as soon as we have sunk the water as far as our suction will go, +which will be some twenty-two, twenty-four, or twenty-six feet deep +below the surface, there I make a room fit to receive another engine, +which I fix with his force-pipe to go up to the top of the pit; and +when I have sunk about twenty-four or twenty-six feet more, then I fix +a smaller engine of two inches bore, which, sucking twenty, and +forcing forty, does your work and keeps all safe; or let your small +engine be kept at work, while you remove the larger engine from the +top to the middle station, and then you will have occasion for no more +than two engines, the greatest of which may be removed as soon as the +smaller is fixed in the lowest or proper station. And that you may be +convinced of my impartiality, it is my opinion, that in gaining an old +work, or sinking a new one, you use your old engines of tub or +chain-pumps: this engine of mine being most proper, when you are come +fairly to the bottom either of the ore or coal; for then, if you have +but one lift, one station or engine-room will be sufficient. And by +having two sumps or bottom cisterns, your water may, in some measure, +settle in one of them in its passage to the other. So that the miners +working tolerably clean, and suffering as little dead or loose coal or +ore as is possible to mix with the water, you may have the water to +draw only a little discoloured; for you know, as well as I, that +generally the water coming from mines or coal-pits, while they work by +the gins now in use, is almost clear water. + +_Miner_. Sir, I thank you for your candour in relation to the clearing +of an old work. But supposing that our water arises thick and muddy, +which you know will sometimes happen, what shall we do with your +engine then? + +_Author_. What you say, sir, I know to be very true, that sometimes +you have thick, muddy gravel and nasty water. To prevent which from +coming into, or offending our pipes, we have a frame of board made +full of holes round about the bottom of our pipe that receives the +water, for sluge or fine dirt it will do my engine no injury. Indeed, +the clearer our water is in our boilers the better it is for our work; +but for our receivers and their clacks you may clear them as you work +it from stones, coal, ore, or any other annoyance, though hung in the +very clack; for by emptying of one or both the receivers of their +water, you cause the motion, either of suction or force, immediately +to be so strong, as to clear and blow out all before it to the top of +the pit; insomuch, that I have found filings of copper, large bits of +metal, considerable quantities of coal and stone, delivered and thrown +up with water out of my engine above sixty feet high. However, clear +water is preferable before the dirty water in the work of mine engine. + +_Miner_. But, dear sir, if sixty, seventy, or eighty feet be the +determinate height for raising of water by your engine, how shall we +use your engine in a mine or pit that requires water to be raised +three times eighty feet, as you know some of our works do. + +_Author_. I heartily thank you, sir, for this last proposal, because I +have now an opportunity to acquaint you, that the force used in my +engine is in a manner infinite and unlimited, and will raise your +water five hundred or one thousand feet high, were any pit so deep; +and that you could find us a way to procure strength enough to support +such an immense weight, as a pillar of water a thousand feet high must +certainly produce. However, to give you an answer, I must entreat you +to give my engine as kind entertainment and fair quarter as you do to +your engines now in use: for, I am sure, you are not ignorant of a +custom used in very deep mines, (in several parts of England,) of +raising their water by several lifts, from cistern to cistern, to a +very great height, although some of their lifts may not be above +twelve, sixteen, or twenty feet a lift at the most. And suppose that +your engine now in use at twenty feet the lift, and my engine at +sixty, seventy, or eighty feet, for at any of these lifts we raise a +full bore of water with much ease, then one lift of my engine at sixty +feet answers to three lifts of your engines at twenty feet, and also +to four of your lifts at eighty feet, &c., which you may please to +take for a sufficient answer to your last objection. I have known, in +Cornwall, a work with three lifts, of about eighteen feet each lift, +and carrying a three and a quarter inch bore, that cost forty-two +shillings per diem, reckoning twenty-four hours the day, for labour, +besides wear and tear of engines; each pump having four men working +eight hours, at fourteenpence a man, and the men obliged to rest at +least one-third part of that time. + +_Miner_. You have, sir, hitherto given me undeniable answers to my +former objections, for which I thank you; but I fancy I shall puzzle +you, when I ask you how you will manage your engine to draw up our +water, where the shafts are not direct, but turn and wind to and fro? + +_Author_. Sir, this last question is so far from being any hardship +put upon my engine, that no engine ever yet invented was so naturally +adapted to work in these crooked shafts as mine is; for let the +windings or turnings of the shafts be what they will, the +perpendicular weight of water is all that my engine has to account +for, and is the same as if it made the figure of a distiller’s worm, +and went through the straightest pipe imaginable, except a little +inconsiderable friction of the water against the side of the pipe that +is crooked, more than is in the straight pipe, which is so small a +matter, that a very nice judge would hardly be able to distinguish +whether the crooked or straight pipe carried off most water in the +working. For the flue that carries the smoke, experience sufficiently +instructs you, that you may turn and wind it any way you please, and +that such windings in their drawing most air do rather improve than +prejudice your flue, as any one experienced in building of furnaces +can inform you. + +_Miner_. Well, sir, I find that our crooked shafts will not any way +incommode your engine: but what think you of accommodating your engine +to the service of the lead mines, whose shafts are many times so +narrow, that it will be very difficult to get your engine down? + +_Author_. I perceive, sir, you are yet much a stranger to the nature +of my engine, which is so furnished with brass screws, and as strong +as the very metal itself, that you may take it to pieces, and with +ease put it together again fit to work in a few hours’ time; and so +contrived, that where a man can well go down, there I can put down my +engine in several pieces and fix them below, for the greatest boiler +belonging to my engine is between twenty-four and thirty inches +diameter, and may, if occasion require, be made yet much narrower and +deeper. And that if it be difficult to bring the shaft of the mine to +fit my engine, I can, with much ease, make my engine to fit the shaft +of any mine. + +_Miner_. But will not these brass valves that you speak of in your +engine, speedily wear out and stop your work? + +_Author_. No: they cannot fail me; because experience shows us, that +brass valves improve, rather than grow worse, by twenty or thirty +years use in any force-work, where constantly worked, and where they +rise and fall twenty times oftener than my valves will do. + +_Miner_. But what think you, sir, if you should meet with such +corrosive water in some of our mines, as will, in a little time, eat +through your copper vessels. + +_Author_. Truly, sir, this question does a little startle me, because +I never expected to meet any water of such a corrosive quality in any +mine: and could I find out a mine, whose water abounds with such acid +particles, as to destroy or injure the copper vessels of my engine, I +would drain that mine for nothing but the water I shall take up; +because the water would be more valuable than any ore (I believe) in +England. And were there even a tenth part of aquafortis to nine-tenths +of common water, which is impossible to suppose it should be, I say, +such a water could have no effect on the coppers, were that water to +lodge some time in the copper vessels, much less in passing through +them with that celerity and rapid motion that always accompanies it. + +_Miner_. But, sir, will not such a continual fire, as must be kept +under your boilers, burn them out in two or three months’ time, and +spoil the work of your engine? + +_Author_. I can assure you they will not decay in some years, unless +some fellow be hired or employed on purpose to do it. And should any +villain be employed to burn, break, or destroy any of the engines now +used in your works for raising of water, we are then on the same level +with you in that point. But I will give you one reason why my engines +will not easily decay, and I am sure that will go further with you +than all the affirmation I can make. For, first of all, although a +white heat will melt copper, and a red heat, and sudden cooling it +again, will scale the copper, yet such a heat as is possible for it to +have or suffer while water is in the boiler can have no ill effect, or +cause any alteration in our copper. A friend of mine has coppers used +in sugar boiling of twenty years’ standing. They may be a small matter +worn with cleaning on the inside, whereas on the outside there does +not appear the least visible decay: for as soon as the fire has thrown +a thin coat of soot on the outside of the boiler, the flame has no +other effect on it than to cause the water in it to boil. + +_Miner_. But we have often combustible vapours in our mines, which +taking fire from the candles used there, do, by a sudden explosion, +destroy both the mine and the miner; and therefore I am afraid that +the fire used in your engine will be very dangerous, and apt to kindle +those combustibles more than our candles. + +_Author_. To answer this objection, I will desire leave to give you my +notion of those combustibles, which, in short, is this: that when your +miners come into a close place, where there is no circulation of air +to carry off the effluvia, or atoms constantly rising like fine dust +in a powder-mill, they by knocking and working do increase to be very +numerous, like to those loose particles in a powder-mill. But it is +the work of some time for those vapours to come to perfection; for I +have heard several experienced miners say, that it is common to avoid +the danger of those vapours, by retiring as soon as they see the flame +of their candles burn longer than ordinary, which may be, discerned +sometimes long before the air is thick enough of this combustible +matter to take fire at once, and, like gunpowder, to destroy all. I +did hear one say, that from an inch and a half, once the flame of his +candle did gradually increase to two feet long, and yet he escaped. +Which makes it very plain, that stagnation of air is the sole cause of +this inconvenience in mines, which may be totally prevented by a pipe +going from the ash-pit of our furnace to any part of the mine liable +to stagnation. For the air will press with great violence through the +pipe into the fire, before the combustible matter can be ready to do +any hurt, and passing through the fire, make way for fresh air to +descend in the room of it. So that our fire, instead of blowing up of +your works, is the best means that can be used to prevent so fatal an +accident; and will likewise carry off all unwholesome vapours, damps, +or steams, which may proceed from corruption of air, by stagnations or +vapours arising from any poisonous earth or mineral. + +_Miner_. This notion of yours carries reason and demonstration along +with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But, sir, is not your price too +great for these engines of yours? + +_Author_. By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I am sure to +have you a friend to me and my engine for ever. For I must tell you, +that I would never have sent my engine into the world, if it would not +raise your water with more ease and conveniency to you and your +servants, and also much cheaper than any other engine ever used in +your works, without which I could never propose any advantage to +myself by it. And to convince you of the truth of my assertion, I dare +undertake the engine shall raise you as much water for eightpence, as +will cost you a shilling to raise the like with your old engines in +coal-pits. By this one article the miner will save one-third part of +his former charge, which is thirty-three pounds six shillings and +eightpence saved out of every hundred pounds. A brave estate gained in +one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight +thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of +water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. +I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such +conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my +engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for +drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be +preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents +your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest +to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable +advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from +the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful +and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine +which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on +it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that +perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a +little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that +certainty and exactness they now do. And for working the engine any +person may have his servant taught it, it being to be learnt in a very +short time by one of an ordinary capacity. + +_Miner_. But there are people who pretend to do great things in the +improvement of engines to work by hand or horses, the hope and +expectation of which has hindered some of us in our work and tired +others, so as to make them out of love with all engines, and almost +with the trade of mining. And though I wish the contrary, I fear this +may prove some hinderance to the promoting your interest. + +_Author_. True, sir, I own that time out of mind there have been +mountebanks and impostors in all faculties who pretend to great +things, but do perform nothing effectually. And it would be hard if +that should be drawn into consequence, that because some are knaves, +therefore none are honest. I know the notions of the perpetual motion, +or self-moving engine, and many such like whims are pretended to by +designing men, and believed by ignorant ones: but the judicious man, +who considers the laws of motion, knows it is an infallible rule, that +whatsoever matter is to be removed upward, must have a force superior +to the weight to be lifted up, if its motion be required as swift as +the motion of the moving cause; if slower, proportionably less +strength will do; if swifter, then the moving cause, as men’s hands, +horses, or dead weight, then must the strength of the moving cause be +increased proportionably, or no motion can be produced. And the +experience of ages shows us this to be a most sure rule, allowing for +friction, which is larger, the more wheels or parts an engine +consisteth of; and, of consequence, the fewer parts or wheels an +engine consisteth of the easier it works; so that by barely looking +on a pump, if it has more parts or wheels than the common crank-work, +you may conclude it worse; if a chain-work or tub-work the same. So +that all that can be expected is, to make those go easier than they +are now made to go by ingenious workmen expert in making them. And if +you try how small a matter will move those engines when not loaded +with water, you will find the friction so small as not worth any +mending, could it be done, especially the tub-gin, whose friction +increases the least in being loaded of any; but the others are vastly +increased by the leathers of their suckers being forced broader, and +rubbing with much greater force against the barrel they work in, +according to the height the pipes are raised. + +And I hope, when it is considered how far this engine of mine differs +from the bare pretensions of ignorant or designing men, and that any +persons may see what my engine will perform before they contract for +it, there will be found no ground for the least suspicion in any +person concerned to employ them in mines; but, to the contrary, afford +us a generous encouragement in a business so conducive to the +increasing the mining trade, and thereby enrich themselves and the +nation, and increase the king’s revenue. + +I could heartily wish all miners, for their own as well as their +country’s interest, were good mechanics, and truly understood the +nature, use, and application of all kinds of engines; for, I am sure, +those that do will be my best friends, without expecting that horses, +or men, or any other strength, can or will do more than what nature +and the laws of motion has allowed them. + + + + +[Illustration: Figure I - see figure_1.gif] +[Illustration: Figure II - see figure_2.gif] +[Illustration: Figure III - see figure_3.gif] +[Illustration: Figure IV - see figure_4.gif] + + + + +Transcriber’s note: + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Miner's Friend, by Thomas Savery + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + +***** This file should be named 46879-0.txt or 46879-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/6/8/7/46879/ + +Produced by Steffen Haugk +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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CROUCH, AT THE CORNER<br /> +OF POPE’S HEAD-ALLEY IN CORNHILL. 1702.<br /> +——<br /> +Reprinted, 1827.</h4> + + + +<hr /> + +<h4>LONDON:<br /> +Printed by W. Clowes.<br /> +Stanford-street</h4> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill03.gif" alt="illustration page 3" /></p> + +<h2>TO THE KING.</h2> +<h4>—————</h4> + + +<p>SIR,<br /> +Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment +before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described +in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming +satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously +enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to +pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it +being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with +that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but +it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty’s +subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, +all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, +seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty’s sacred +protection.</p> + +<p>It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound +respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your +Majesty’s royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it +had birth in your Majesty’s auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to +perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal +approbation, which is the utmost ambition of,</p> + +<pre> + May it please your Majesty, + Your Majesty’s + most humble, most loyal, + and most obedient Subject, + THOMAS SAVERY. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill04.gif" alt="illustration page 4" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill05.gif" alt="illustration page 5" /></p> + +<h2>TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY.</h2> +<h4>—————</h4> + + +<p>At the request of some of your members, at the weekly meeting, at +Gresham-college, June the 14th, 1699, I had the honour to work a small +model of my engine before you, and you were pleased to approve of it. +Since which I have met with great difficulties and expense, to +instruct handicraft artificers to form my engine according to my +design; but my workmen, after so much experience, are become such +masters of the thing, that they oblige themselves to deliver what +engines they make me exactly tight and fit for service, and as such I +dare warrant them to any body that has occasion for them.</p> + +<p>Your kindness in countenancing this invention in its first appearance +in the world, gives me hopes the usefulness of it will make it more +acceptable to your honourable Society, as they are the most proper +judges of what advantage it may be to mankind. And it would be +ungrateful in me not to make use of this opportunity to return you my +most humble and hearty thanks for the honour and favour you did me in +approving my design, and publishing it to the world,* which shall be +always acknowledged by</p> + +<pre> + Your most obliged + and most humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + * Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 252. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill06.gif" alt="illustration page 6" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill07.gif" alt="illustration page 7" /></p> + +<h4>TO THE</h4> +<h2>GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS</h2> +<h4>IN THE</h4> +<h2>MINES OF ENGLAND.</h2> +<h4>—————</h4> + + + + + +<p>I am very sensible a great many among you do as yet look on my +invention of raising water by the impellent force of fire, a useless +sort of a project, that never can answer my designs or pretensions; +and that it is altogether impossible that such an engine as this can +be wrought under ground, and succeed in the raising of water, and +draining your mines, so as to deserve any encouragement from you. I am +not very fond of lying under the scandal of a bare projector; and, +therefore, present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay +before you the uses of it, and leave it to your consideration whether +it be worth your while to make use of it or no. I can easily give +grains of allowance for your suspicions, because I know very well what +miscarriages there have been by people ignorant of what they pretend +to. These I know have been so frequent, so fair and promising at +first, but so short of performing what they pretended to, that your +prudence and discretion will not now suffer you to believe any thing +without a demonstration, your appetites to new inventions of this +nature having been balked too often; yet, after all, I must beg you +not to condemn me, before you have read what I have to say for myself; +and let not the failures of others prejudice me, or be placed to my +account. I have often lamented the want of understanding the true +powers of nature, which misfortune has, of late, put some on making +such vast engines and machines, both troublesome and expensive, yet of +no manner of use, inasmuch as the old engines, used many ages past, +far exceeded them; and I fear, whoever, by the old causes of motion, +pretends to improvements within this last century, does betray his +knowledge and judgment; for more than an hundred years since, men and +horses would raise by engines, then made, as much water as they have +ever since done, or I believe ever will, or according to the law of +nature ever can do; and though my thoughts have been long employed +about water-works, I should never have pretended to any invention of +that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much +stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion, than any before made +use of. But finding this of rarefaction by fire, the consideration of +the difficulties the miners and colliers labour under by the frequent +disorders, cumbersomeness, and in general of water-engines, encouraged +me to invent engines to work by this new force; that though I was +obliged to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable difficulties, I +spared neither time, pains, nor money, till I had absolutely conquered +them. I hope this will, at least, encourage you to read over this +small treatise I now put into your hands, for the further and more +particular information of the nature and uses of this engine for +raising water by the force of fire; after which, I shall patiently +submit to any judgment you shall please to pass upon me or the +invention, and may have reason to believe you will not any longer +suffer your judgments to be imposed on by those, whose profit and +interest it may seem to be to condemn both right and wrong; I mean +such who make your common gins, and their friends and acquaintance +among you; though I am very sure the promotion of the use of this +engine is their true interest, as I very plainly prove thus:--</p> + +<p>The cheaper water is drawn, the more is the miner encouraged to +adventure; the more the miner adventures, the more pits or shafts must +be sunk; the more shafts or pits are sunk, the more wood-work will be +necessarily employed in timbering them, or supporting the sides from +falling in where the earth is loose; besides windlasses and all other +utensils of wood used in mines, or the trades depending thereon must +be more, which, by increasing the carpenters’ trade in general, will +make them sufficient amends for the loss of a small part of that +branch of their trade, called gin-making. As for pump-making, that +part of the trade will be much improved by my engine; for I must use +board and timber for pipes, and have considerable employment for +pump-makers and carpenters for timber used about my engine; but shall +never employ any other person in making pipes, or any other +carpenter’s work I shall have to do, but the person who was before +employed in the work, or such as shall be recommended, as a person +employed in the mines of the country wheresoever I shall fix engines, +provided they will work as cheap, and fairly, and observe the orders +and directions given them; for my design is not, in the least, to +prejudice the artificers, or, indeed, any other sort of people by this +invention; but, on the contrary, is intended for the benefit and +advantage of mankind in general, especially the people of my own +nation; and wherein, you gentlemen concerned in mines, may, if you +please, reap the greatest profit.</p> + +<p>And although I do not question but the plan and draught of my engine +will be very well and readily understood with many gentlemen, by the +description here given; yet it will require a longer time in others to +employ their minds and thoughts more intensely about it, especially +such as have not been familiar and acquainted with things of this +kind; but should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem +intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have +given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the +attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is +familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a +very little time; insomuch, that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen +years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were +taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the +engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; +and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when +you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to +yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other +advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works +in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the +labours of</p> + +<pre> + Your real Friend and humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + <i>London, +Sept. 22,</i> 1701. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill11.gif" alt="illustration page 11" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill13.gif" alt="illustration page 13" /></p> + +<h2>A DESCRIPTION</h2> +<h4>OF THE</h4> +<h2>DRAUGHT OF THE ENGINE,</h2> +<h4>FOR RAISING WATER BY FIRE.</h4> +<h4>—————</h4> + + <i>a</i>, <i>a</i>, The furnaces.<br /> + <i>b</i>, B, the two fire-places.<br /> + <i>c</i>, the funnel or chimney.<br /> + <i>d</i>, the small boiler.<br /> + <i>e</i>, the pipe and cock of it.<br /> + <i>f</i>, the screw that covers and confines its force.<br /> + <i>g</i>, a small cock, a pipe going within eight inches of its bottom.<br /> + <i>h</i>, A larger pipe going the same depth.<br /> + <i>i</i>, a clack on the top of the said pipe.<br /> + <i>k</i>, a pipe going from the box of the said clack or valve, into the great boiler, about an inch into it.<br /> + <i>l</i>, the great boiler.<br /> + <i>m</i>, the screw with the regulator.<br /> + <i>n</i>, a small cock and pipe going half way down the great boiler.<br /> + <i>o</i>, O, steam-pipes, one end of each screw to the regulator, and the other ends to the receivers.<br /> + <i>p</i>, P, the vessels called receivers.<br /> + <i>q</i>, q, the screws which bring on the pipes and clacks in the front of the engine.<br /> + <i>r</i>, <i>r</i>, R, R, valves or clack of brass, with screws to open and come at them upon occasion.<br /> + <i>s</i>, the force-pipe.<br /> + <i>t</i>, the sucking-pipe.<br /> + <i>v</i>, a square frame of wood, with holes round its bottom in the water.<br /> + <i>x</i>, a cistern with a buoy-cock coming from the force-pipe.<br /> + <i>y</i>, a cock and pipe coming from the bottom of the said cistern.<br /> + <i>z</i>, the handle of the regulator.<br /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill14.gif" alt="illustration page 14" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>CHAPTER FIRST.</h2> +<h4>MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h4>THE</h4> +<h3>MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE.</h3> +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill17.gif" alt="illustration page 17" /></p> + +<p>The first thing is to fix the engine in a good double furnace, so +contrived that the flame of your fire may circulate round and +encompass your two boilers to the best advantage, as you do coppers +for brewing. Before you make any fire, unscrew <i>g</i> and <i>n</i>, being the +two small gauge-pipes and cocks belonging to the two boilers, and at +the holes, fill <i>l</i>, the great boiler, two-thirds full of water, and +<i>d</i>, the small boiler, quite full; then screw in the said pipes again +as fast and light as possible; then light the fire at <i>b</i>. When the +water in <i>l</i> boils, the handle of the regulator, marked <i>z</i>, must be +thrust from you as far as it will go, which makes all the steam rising +from the water in <i>l</i> pass with irresistible force through <i>o</i> into +<i>p</i>, pushing out all the air before it, through the clack, <i>r</i>, making +a noise as it goes; and when all is gone out, the bottom of the +vessel, <i>p</i>, will be very hot; then pull the handle of the regulator +to you, by which means you stop <i>o</i>, and force your steam through <i>o</i> +into the <i>p</i>, until that vessel has discharged its air through the +clack, <i>r</i>, up the force-pipe. In the mean time, by the steam’s +condensing in the vessel <i>p</i>, a vacuum or emptiness is created, so +that the water must, and will, necessarily, raise up, through <i>t</i>, the +sucking-pipe, lifting up the clack, <i>r</i>, and filling the vessel, <i>p</i>. +</p> + +<p>In the mean time, the vessel, <i>p</i>, being emptied of its air, turn the +handle of the regulator from you again, and the force is upon the +surface of the water in <i>p</i>, which surface being only heated by the +steam, it does not condense it, but the steam gravitates or presses +with an elastic quality like air; still increasing its elasticity or +spring, till it counterpoises, or rather exceeds the weight of the +water ascending in <i>s</i>, the forcing-pipe, out of which, the water in +<i>p</i> will be immediately discharged when once gotten to the top, which +takes up some time to recover that power; which having once got, and +being in work, it is easy for any one that never saw the engine, after +half an hour’s experience, to keep a constant stream running out the +full bore of the pipe, <i>s</i>; for, on the outside of the vessel, <i>p</i>, +you may see how the water goes out, as well as if the vessel were +transparent; for, as far as the steam continues within the vessel, so +far is the vessel dry without, and so very hot, as scarce to endure +the least touch of the hand; but as far as the water is, the said +vessel will be cold and wet, where any water has fallen on it; which +cold and moisture vanishes as fast as the steam, in its descent, takes +place of the water; but if you force all the water out, the steam, or +a small part thereof, going through <i>r</i>, will rattle the clack, so as +to give sufficient notice to pall the handle of the regulator to you, +which, at the same time, begins to force out the water from <i>p</i>, +without the least alteration of the stream; only, sometimes, the +stream of water will be somewhat stronger than before, if you pull the +handle of the regulator before any considerable quantity of steam be +gone up the clack, <i>r</i>; but it is much better to let none of the steam +go off, for that is but losing so much strength, and is easily +prevented, by polling the regulator some little time before the vessel +forcing is quite emptied. This being done, immediately turn the cock +or pipe of the cistern, <i>x</i>, on <i>p</i>, so that the water proceeding from +<i>x</i>, through <i>y</i>, which is never open but when turned on <i>p</i>, or <i>P</i>; +but when between them, is tight and stanch; I say, the water, falling +on <i>p</i>, causes, by its coolness, the steam, which had such great force +just before to its elastic power, to condense, and become a vacuum or +empty apace, so that the vessel, <i>p</i>, is, by the external pressure of +the atmosphere, or what is vulgarly called suction, immediately +refilled, while <i>p</i> is emptying; which being done, you push the handle +of the regulator from you, and throw the force on <i>p</i>, pulling the +condensing pipe over <i>p</i>, causing the steam in that vessel to +condense, so that it fills, while the other empties. The labour of +turning these two parts of the engine, viz. the regulator and +water-cock, and attending the fire, being no more than what a boy’s +strength can perform for a day together, and is as easily learned as +their driving of a horse in a tub-gin; yet, after all, I would have +men, and those, too, the most apprehensive, employed in working of the +engine, supposing them more careful than boys. The difference of this +charge is not to be mentioned or accounted of, when we consider the +vast profit which those who use the engine will reap by it.</p> + +<p>The ingenious reader will, probably, here object, that the steam being +the cause of this motion and force, and that steam is but water +rarefied, the boiler, <i>l</i>, must in some certain time be emptied, so as +the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler, or endanger +the burning out or melting the bottom of the boiler.</p> + +<p>To answer which, please to observe the use of the small boiler, <i>d</i>, +when it is thought fit by the person tending the engine to replenish +the great boiler, which requires an hour and a half, or two hours’ +time to the sinking one foot of water; then, I say, by turning the +cock of the small boiler, <i>e</i>, you cut off all communication between +<i>s</i>, the great force-pipe, and <i>d</i>, the small boiler, by which means +<i>d</i> grows immediately hot, by throwing a little fire into <i>b</i>, and the +water of which boils, and in a very little time it gains more strength +than the great boiler; for the force of the great boiler being +perpetually spending and going out, and the other winding up, or +increasing, it is not long before the force in <i>d</i> exceeds that in +<i>l</i>, so that the water in <i>d</i> being depressed in <i>d</i> by its own steam +or vapour, must necessarily rise through the pipe, <i>h</i>, opening the +clack, <i>i</i>, and so go through the pipe, <i>k</i>, into <i>l</i>, running till +the surface of the water in <i>d</i> is equal to the bottom of the pit, +<i>h</i>; then steam and water going together, will, by a noise in the +clack, <i>i</i>, give sufficient assurance that <i>d</i> has discharged and +emptied itself into <i>l</i>, to within eight inches of the bottom; and +inasmuch as, from the top of <i>d</i> to the bottom of its pipe, <i>h</i>, is +contained about as much water as will replenish <i>l</i>, one foot, so you +may be certain <i>l</i> is replenished one foot of course; then you open +the cock, <i>i</i>, and refill <i>d</i> immediately; so that here is a constant +motion without fear or danger of disorder, or decay, if you would, at +any time, know if the great boiler, <i>l</i>, be more than half exhausted, +turn the small cock, <i>n</i>, whose pipe will deliver water, if the water +be above the level of its bottom, which is half way down the boiler; +if not, it will deliver steam. So, likewise, will <i>g</i> show you if you +have more or less than eight inches of water in <i>d</i>, by which means +nothing but a stupid and wilful neglect, or mischievous design, +carried on for some hours, can any ways hurt the engine; and if a +master is suspicious of the design of a servant to do mischief, it is +easily discovered by those gauge-pipes; for if he come when the engine +is at work, and find the surface, <i>c</i>, of the water in <i>l</i>, below the +bottom of the gauge-pipe, <i>n</i>, or the water in <i>d</i> below the bottom of +<i>g</i>, such a servant deserves correction, though three hours after +that, the working on would not damage or exhaust the boilers; as that, +in a word, the clacks being in all water-works always found the better +the longer they are used, and all the moving parts of our engine being +of like nature, the furnace being made of Stourbridge, or Windsor +brick, or fire-stone, I do not see it possible for the engine to decay +in many years; for the clacks, boxes, and mitre-pipe, regulator, and +cocks, are all of brass; and the vessels made of the best hammered +copper, of sufficient thickness to sustain the force of the working +the engine. In short, the engine is so naturally adapted to perform +what is required, that even those of the most ordinary and meanest +capacity may work it for some years without any injury, if not hired +or employed by some base person on purpose to destroy it; for after +the engine is once fixed, and at work, I may modestly affirm that the +adventurer, or supervisor of the mine, will be freed from that +perpetual charge, expense, and trouble of repairs, which all other +engines ever yet employed in mines for the raising of water, are +continually liable unto.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill22.gif" alt="illustration page 22" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>CHAPTER SECOND.</h2> +<h4>OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE MAY BE APPLIED UNTO.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE</h3> +<h4>MAY BE APPLIED UNTO.</h4> + +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill25.gif" alt="illustration page 25" /></p> + +<p>It may be supposed that there are few people among us so ignorant, but +must necessarily know of what value the falls of water are in most +places, as being applicable to mills, which are made after various +kinds and forms, according to the different genius and abilities of +the millwright, for mill-work being in a manner infinitely +diversified; and had I leisure to comment thereon, and give you an +account, not only of the vast variety that I have seen and heard of, +but (when encouraged) what may yet be brought to work by a steady +stream, and the rotation or circular motion of a water-wheel, it would +swell these papers to a much larger volume than was at first designed, +and frustrate my intended brevity. I only just hint this to show what +use this engine may be put to in working of mills, especially where +coals are cheap.</p> + + +<p>I have only this to urge, that water, in its fall from any determinate +height, has simply a force answerable and equal to the force that +raises it. So that an engine which will raise as much water as two +horses working together at one time in such a work can do, and for +which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the +same, then, I say, such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or +twelve horses; and whereas this engine may be made large enough to do +the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses +to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work, it will be +improper to stint or confine its uses and operation in respect of +water-mills.</p> + +<p>2. It may be of great use for palaces, for the nobility’s or +gentlemen’s houses; for, by a cistern on the top of a house, yoy may, +with a great deal of ease and little charge, throw what quantity of +water you have occasion for to the top of any house; which water, in +its fall, makes you what sorts of fountains you please, and supplies +any room in the house, and it is of excellent use in case of fire, of +which more hereafter.</p> + +<p>3. Nothing can be more fit for serving cities and towns with water, +except a crank-work by the force of a river. In the composing such +sort of engines, I think no person hath excelled the ingenious Mr. +George Sorocold; but where they are forced to use horses, or any other +strength, I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have +the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any +yet discovered or invented.</p> + +<p>4. As for draining fens, marshes, &c. I suppose I need say no more +than this, that that force which will raise great quantities of water +a height of above eighty feet, must necessarily deliver a much greater +quantity at a lesser height; and that it is much cheaper, and every +way easier, especially where coals are water-borne, to continue the +discharge of any quantities of water by our engine, than it can be +done by any horse-engines whatsoever.</p> + +<p>5. I believe it may be made very useful to ships, but I dare not +meddle with that matter, and leave it to the judgment of those who are +the best judges of maritime affairs.</p> + +<p>6. For draining of mines and coal-pits the use of the engine will +sufficiently recommend itself in raising water so easy and cheap; and +I do not doubt, but that, in a few years, it will be a means of making +our mining trade, which is no small part of the wealth of this +kingdom, double, if not treble to what it now is. And if such vast +quantities of lead, tin, and coals, are now yearly exported, under the +difficulties of such an immense charge and pains as the miners, &c. +are now at to discharge their water, how much more may be hereafter +exported, when the charge will be very much lessened by the use of +this engine every way fitted for the use of mines? For the far greater +part of our richest mines and coal-pits are liable to two grand +inconveniences, and thereby rendered useless, viz. the irruption and +excess of subterraneous waters, as not being worth the expense of +draining them by the great charge of horses, or hand labour. Or, +secondly, fatal damps, by which many are struck blind, lame, or dead, +in these subterraneous cavities, if the mine is wanting of a due +circulation of air. Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally +remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant +force of fire.</p> + +<p>For the water, be the mine ever so deep, each engine working it sixty, +seventy, or eighty feet high, by applying or setting the engines one +over another, as shall be showed at large hereafter in the following +pages, you may, by a sufficient number of engines, keep the bottom of +any mine dry; and when once you know how large your feeder or spring +is, it is very easy to know what sized engine, or what number of +engines will do your business.</p> + +<p>The coals used in this engine is of as little value as the coals +commonly burned on the mouths of the coal-pits are; for an engine of a +three-inch bore, or thereabout, working the water up sixty feet high, +requires a fire-place of not above twenty inches deep, and about +fourteen or fifteen inches wide, which will occasion so small a +consumption, that in a coal-pit it is of no account, as we have +experienced. And in all parts of England, where there are mines, coals +are so cheap, that the charge of them is not to be mentioned, when we +consider the vast quantity of water raised by the inconsiderable value +of the coals used and burnt in so small a furnace. What the quantity +of coals used for one engine in a year is cannot easily be +ascertained, because of the different nature of the several sorts of +coals.</p> + +<p>As for the cure of damps by this engine, the air perpetually crowding +into the ash-hole and fire-place, as it is natural for it to do, and +with a most impetuous force discharged with the smoke at the top of +the chimney, the contiguous air is successively following it; so that +not only all steams or vapours whatsoever, that may or can arise, must +naturally force its way through the fire, and so be discharged at the +top with the smoke, but this motion of the fire will occasion the +fresh air to descend from above down all the pits, and every where +else in the mine, but down the chimney; provided you have a heading +drift, or passage from all the shafts or pits in the work, to that +place where the engine stands; whether the mouth of the said pit and +chimney be lower or higher than the mouths of any of the rest of the +pits or shafts in the same work it matters not, for here will be a +perpetual circulation of the air, and with that swiftness as is hardly +to be believed. This I have tried and know to be true, so leave the +ingenious miner to his own judgment, whether, when all the air is in a +swift motion, that any stagnation of air (which has always been +adjudged the cause of damps) can happen in any pit.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill29.gif" alt="illustration page 29" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>CHAPTER THIRD.</h2> +<h4>THE MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND +GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER +IN GENERAL.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h4>THE</h4> +<h2>MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE</h2> +<h4>FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, +AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER IN GENERAL.</h4> +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill33.gif" alt="illustration page 33" /></p> + +<p>1. For mills. The engine must be made and proportioned according to +the quantity of water required to drive the mill you would make use +of. Now suppose you would make a mill on a plain place, where you will +have only a pond, and a small spring of water no bigger than a quill; +then you must build your mill-house thirty-six feet high, in which you +may make what motions, and what sort of mills you please. By the side +of which house without, may be placed your water-wheel of thirty-two, +thirty-three, or thirty-four feet diameter. For the height of either +house or wheel I would confine no person too exactly, but I guess that +a convenient height, and no more than what is common enough. Under the +wheel I would have a pond, and on the top of the house a cistern of +wood lined with lead. The engine may be fixed in any corner of the +mill-house, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two feet, or more, from the +level of the pond: there two boilers must be fixed, as shown you in +the draught for fixing the engine; and round each of them it is +convenient to have a hoop of iron, with straps coming from them to +rest on the brick-work, to support and strengthen them. Your clacks +and pipes in the front being supported by wood, and the vessels +standing on pedestals of wood, it is convenient that the flue, or +chimney, be so contrived as to draw very sharp, and the flue to +circulate round both the boilers, so that you may lose no part of your +strength.</p> + +<p>2. For palaces, or the nobility’s or gentlemen’s houses, you may fix +the engine in any remote or out-room, whose floor is not above twenty +feet from the level of your water, and you may continue your +force-pipe to the top of your house, with a convenient cistern to hold +your water; into which lay the pipes which may convey the water as you +want it, either for pleasure or common occasions. This way of cisterns +on the top of your houses or palaces would be of singular use in case +of fire, as is said before; for in every staircase a pipe may go down +the corner, or behind the wainscot, so as to be no blemish even to the +finest of staircases. At every floor there may be a turn-cock with a +screw. At the utmost end have likewise a small leather pipe, kept well +oiled in a cupboard, or cavity in your wall, which may not be seen, +but on the opening some part of the wainscot, or such other +contrivance as the ingenious builder shall think fit to make use of. +This pipe of leather must be long enough to reach from the +landing-place, or stair-head, in all rooms depending thereon. One end +of this pipe has a screw to fit the cock in the other pipe, and at the +other end a pipe like the nose of a pair of bellows; so that wherever, +though under a bed, or the remotest part of any room in the house, the +fire breaks out, or is discovered, any servant having screwed the pipe +to the cock, stops the nozle with his thumb till he comes to the place +where the fire is, when, taking away his thumb, he, by directing the +nozle to the fire, immediately extinguishes it, which being liable to +be instantly used, I think a house, palace, &c. that has this +invention, may be said to be morally out of danger of being destroyed, +or so far injured as Whitehall and Kensington have been within a few +years. This command of water must be allowed to be of vast advantage +to any house whatsoever. Where brewing, washing, &c. is used, the +copper standing high may be filled as easy as if it stood low, by +which means the hot liquor may be contrived to go to all your coolers, +and other vessels, either by a syphon, stop-cock, &c. without the +hand-labour of pumping or bailing with buckets. But more conveniencies +than we can at present foresee will be discovered in the use of this +engine for palaces, houses, &c.</p> + +<p>3. For fens, and the like, it is convenient that these engines be made +very large; for at all small heights a small quantity of fire will +deliver prodigious quantities of water. For suppose we force but +thirty feet, and suck twenty feet, if the boiler does but fill the +vessels, called receivers, with steam strong enough to counterpoise or +exceed the force of the atmosphere, or spring of the common air, it +will discharge them at so small a height as thirty feet force in a +very little time; and the steam having very little force or spring is +immediately condensed, so that it will presently suck full in one of +the vessels while the other is discharged. Now, inasmuch as the fire +being more or less adds nothing to the suction. I think such lifts, +being seldom above thirty-six feet, or under six feet, all the +directions further needful for fixing the engine for this use is, in +all lifts under twenty-four feet, to place your engine so as a little +above your force-clacks may be the place of the delivery of your water +into a convenient trough or lander, to be carried off at the most +proper place for its discharge. If it be any height above twenty-four +feet, you have nothing to do but to continue the length of your +force-pipe to the height required. It ought to have a shed or covering +round it, and to be placed at the lowest place of your fen or bog, as +other engines designed for that purpose commonly are.</p> + +<p>As for fixing the engine in ships, when they may be thought probably +useful, I question not but we may find conveniency enough for fixing +them.</p> + +<p>In mines and coal-pits the manner of fixing the engines is this; your +pit being sunk, and a sump, or proper well, or bottom cistern, made to +receive the water coming from the several feeders or springs. +Supposing an engine, carrying three and a quarter inch bore, is to be +fixed to deliver water about seventy feet high, constant running a +full bore; in such case you make a small room in your shaft or pit, +which, together with your shaft or pit, is nine feet square every way. +As for example, suppose your shaft six feet by four, take three feet +out of one side, and five out of another perpendicular nine feet, +making a small floor or platform of boards over that part of the shaft +which goes down to your sump or bottom cistern, so you have a complete +room big enough for your engine, where ten or twelve people may stand +on occasion. This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty +feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into +the sump or bottom cistern. If your ground be loose, it is convenient +to line this room with brick; if rock, it may support itself. But in +this the miner’s judgment must direct him. That the engine will stand +best in the side of the pit where most is dug away, you may see in the +second figure of the engine, being fixed in a mine. Your pipes, &c. +must be fixed with cramps of iron, wood, or such materials as are +convenient, to the side of the pit or shaft, so as to make it stand as +firm as the very shaft itself. Your furnace must be so contrived, that +your flame take a turn or two round each of the boilers, which any +brick-layer used to furnaces can do; it being performed by running a +row of bricks round them both like a screw or worm, which being +contiguous to the wall of the furnaces and the boilers, makes it, as +it were, a worm-funnel round them both; from whence you may continue +your chimney to the top of your work, which you fasten to the sides of +your shafts in the corners as you please, either with iron or wood, or +both, according to the nature of the ground. And wherever you make a +sudden bend or nook near a right angle in the chimney, have a loose +brick or stone to take out the soot, if any should settle in such +place, which in long working it may do.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill38.gif" alt="illustration page 38" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>SEVERAL OBJECTIONS</h2> +<h4>AGAINST THE</h4> +<h2>WORKING THIS ENGINE ANSWERED,</h2> +<h4>IN</h4> +<h2>A DIALOGUE</h2> +<h4>BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h2>A DIALOGUE</h2> +<h4>BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR.</h4> +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill41.gif" alt="illustration page 41" /></p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Sir, having been some time concerned in the engines now used +for drawing water out of our mines, and hearing so much talk of this +wonderful invention of yours, of raising water by fire, I was very +desirous to enter into some discourse with you concerning the nature, +use, and application of your engine, so strangely differing from all +other engines ever yet invented for our works, and which, you +positively affirm, will every way tend so much to our advantage in the +use of them; and I do not doubt of meeting with that plainness, +freedom, and good humour, that your discourse is generally accompanied +with. And with the same freedom resolve me in such questions as the +general sense of us miners may naturally propose to object against the +use of your engine, especially such of us as are yet ignorant of its +use and operation, who are more capable to judge of fact, than of the +nature and power of that force which raises your water.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for your freedom, and +shall readily embrace all opportunities to inform and explain to you +the true use and nature of my engine; and, therefore, desire you, with +all imaginable freedom, to proceed and ask what questions you please, +either as to your own thoughts, as well as what has been suggested to +you by others. And you may be assured of a plain and candid answer to +all your objections.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Then, sir, which way will you go to work with your engine to +clear an old work full of water?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Why, sir, to deal plainly with you, if your shafts are, or +may be cut straight, your tub-engines, or chain pumps, may draw forth +the water. And the charge, in that respect, is not to be accounted +for, because no mine would be thrown up or neglected but on account of +the feeders or springs, which being certain, and constantly to be +carried off winter and summer, the prospect of being likely to +succeed, makes your mine worth working or emptying within twenty feet +of the bottom, if ever they were worth sinking, though you work or +drain by the common way of tubs or chain-pumps. And could the constant +charge of those engines be afforded, numbers of them will empty and +keep under any work; but it is the constant charge of carrying off +what the springs bring in is the chief thing to be considered in the +business of mines, which constant charge is what we lessen very much +by this engine of mine.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . What signifies your engine then, sir, if it be not capable of +sinking or forking an old mine?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Hold, my good friend, a little patience; I have dealt +plainly and impartially with you about the use of your old engines: +and for my engine, it will clear an old work, if full of water, as +readily as your tub-gins or chain-pumps, provided the shafts are good. +The method I propose to clear an old mine, if sixty feet deep, and +full of water, the feeders not above two-inch bore, which is done at a +very small charge after this manner; <i>viz</i>. I fix my engine on the top +of the mine, and only suck and deliver a three and a quarter inch +bore; as soon as we have sunk the water as far as our suction will go, +which will be some twenty-two, twenty-four, or twenty-six feet deep +below the surface, there I make a room fit to receive another engine, +which I fix with his force-pipe to go up to the top of the pit; and +when I have sunk about twenty-four or twenty-six feet more, then I fix +a smaller engine of two inches bore, which, sucking twenty, and +forcing forty, does your work and keeps all safe; or let your small +engine be kept at work, while you remove the larger engine from the +top to the middle station, and then you will have occasion for no more +than two engines, the greatest of which may be removed as soon as the +smaller is fixed in the lowest or proper station. And that you may be +convinced of my impartiality, it is my opinion, that in gaining an old +work, or sinking a new one, you use your old engines of tub or +chain-pumps: this engine of mine being most proper, when you are come +fairly to the bottom either of the ore or coal; for then, if you have +but one lift, one station or engine-room will be sufficient. And by +having two sumps or bottom cisterns, your water may, in some measure, +settle in one of them in its passage to the other. So that the miners +working tolerably clean, and suffering as little dead or loose coal or +ore as is possible to mix with the water, you may have the water to +draw only a little discoloured; for you know, as well as I, that +generally the water coming from mines or coal-pits, while they work by +the gins now in use, is almost clear water.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Sir, I thank you for your candour in relation to the clearing +of an old work. But supposing that our water arises thick and muddy, +which you know will sometimes happen, what shall we do with your +engine then?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . What you say, sir, I know to be very true, that sometimes +you have thick, muddy gravel and nasty water. To prevent which from +coming into, or offending our pipes, we have a frame of board made +full of holes round about the bottom of our pipe that receives the +water, for sluge or fine dirt it will do my engine no injury. Indeed, +the clearer our water is in our boilers the better it is for our work; +but for our receivers and their clacks you may clear them as you work +it from stones, coal, ore, or any other annoyance, though hung in the +very clack; for by emptying of one or both the receivers of their +water, you cause the motion, either of suction or force, immediately +to be so strong, as to clear and blow out all before it to the top of +the pit; insomuch, that I have found filings of copper, large bits of +metal, considerable quantities of coal and stone, delivered and thrown +up with water out of my engine above sixty feet high. However, clear +water is preferable before the dirty water in the work of mine engine.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But, dear sir, if sixty, seventy, or eighty feet be the +determinate height for raising of water by your engine, how shall we +use your engine in a mine or pit that requires water to be raised +three times eighty feet, as you know some of our works do.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . I heartily thank you, sir, for this last proposal, because I +have now an opportunity to acquaint you, that the force used in my +engine is in a manner infinite and unlimited, and will raise your +water five hundred or one thousand feet high, were any pit so deep; +and that you could find us a way to procure strength enough to support +such an immense weight, as a pillar of water a thousand feet high must +certainly produce. However, to give you an answer, I must entreat you +to give my engine as kind entertainment and fair quarter as you do to +your engines now in use: for, I am sure, you are not ignorant of a +custom used in very deep mines, (in several parts of England,) of +raising their water by several lifts, from cistern to cistern, to a +very great height, although some of their lifts may not be above +twelve, sixteen, or twenty feet a lift at the most. And suppose that +your engine now in use at twenty feet the lift, and my engine at +sixty, seventy, or eighty feet, for at any of these lifts we raise a +full bore of water with much ease, then one lift of my engine at sixty +feet answers to three lifts of your engines at twenty feet, and also +to four of your lifts at eighty feet, &c., which you may please to +take for a sufficient answer to your last objection. I have known, in +Cornwall, a work with three lifts, of about eighteen feet each lift, +and carrying a three and a quarter inch bore, that cost forty-two +shillings per diem, reckoning twenty-four hours the day, for labour, +besides wear and tear of engines; each pump having four men working +eight hours, at fourteenpence a man, and the men obliged to rest at +least one-third part of that time.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . You have, sir, hitherto given me undeniable answers to my +former objections, for which I thank you; but I fancy I shall puzzle +you, when I ask you how you will manage your engine to draw up our +water, where the shafts are not direct, but turn and wind to and fro?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Sir, this last question is so far from being any hardship +put upon my engine, that no engine ever yet invented was so naturally +adapted to work in these crooked shafts as mine is; for let the +windings or turnings of the shafts be what they will, the +perpendicular weight of water is all that my engine has to account +for, and is the same as if it made the figure of a distiller’s worm, +and went through the straightest pipe imaginable, except a little +inconsiderable friction of the water against the side of the pipe that +is crooked, more than is in the straight pipe, which is so small a +matter, that a very nice judge would hardly be able to distinguish +whether the crooked or straight pipe carried off most water in the +working. For the flue that carries the smoke, experience sufficiently +instructs you, that you may turn and wind it any way you please, and +that such windings in their drawing most air do rather improve than +prejudice your flue, as any one experienced in building of furnaces +can inform you.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Well, sir, I find that our crooked shafts will not any way +incommode your engine: but what think you of accommodating your engine +to the service of the lead mines, whose shafts are many times so +narrow, that it will be very difficult to get your engine down?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . I perceive, sir, you are yet much a stranger to the nature +of my engine, which is so furnished with brass screws, and as strong +as the very metal itself, that you may take it to pieces, and with +ease put it together again fit to work in a few hours’ time; and so +contrived, that where a man can well go down, there I can put down my +engine in several pieces and fix them below, for the greatest boiler +belonging to my engine is between twenty-four and thirty inches +diameter, and may, if occasion require, be made yet much narrower and +deeper. And that if it be difficult to bring the shaft of the mine to +fit my engine, I can, with much ease, make my engine to fit the shaft +of any mine.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But will not these brass valves that you speak of in your +engine, speedily wear out and stop your work?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . No: they cannot fail me; because experience shows us, that +brass valves improve, rather than grow worse, by twenty or thirty +years use in any force-work, where constantly worked, and where they +rise and fall twenty times oftener than my valves will do.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But what think you, sir, if you should meet with such +corrosive water in some of our mines, as will, in a little time, eat +through your copper vessels.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Truly, sir, this question does a little startle me, because +I never expected to meet any water of such a corrosive quality in any +mine: and could I find out a mine, whose water abounds with such acid +particles, as to destroy or injure the copper vessels of my engine, I +would drain that mine for nothing but the water I shall take up; +because the water would be more valuable than any ore (I believe) in +England. And were there even a tenth part of aquafortis to nine-tenths +of common water, which is impossible to suppose it should be, I say, +such a water could have no effect on the coppers, were that water to +lodge some time in the copper vessels, much less in passing through +them with that celerity and rapid motion that always accompanies it.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But, sir, will not such a continual fire, as must be kept +under your boilers, burn them out in two or three months’ time, and +spoil the work of your engine?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . I can assure you they will not decay in some years, unless +some fellow be hired or employed on purpose to do it. And should any +villain be employed to burn, break, or destroy any of the engines now +used in your works for raising of water, we are then on the same level +with you in that point. But I will give you one reason why my engines +will not easily decay, and I am sure that will go further with you +than all the affirmation I can make. For, first of all, although a +white heat will melt copper, and a red heat, and sudden cooling it +again, will scale the copper, yet such a heat as is possible for it to +have or suffer while water is in the boiler can have no ill effect, or +cause any alteration in our copper. A friend of mine has coppers used +in sugar boiling of twenty years’ standing. They may be a small matter +worn with cleaning on the inside, whereas on the outside there does +not appear the least visible decay: for as soon as the fire has thrown +a thin coat of soot on the outside of the boiler, the flame has no +other effect on it than to cause the water in it to boil.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But we have often combustible vapours in our mines, which +taking fire from the candles used there, do, by a sudden explosion, +destroy both the mine and the miner; and therefore I am afraid that +the fire used in your engine will be very dangerous, and apt to kindle +those combustibles more than our candles.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . To answer this objection, I will desire leave to give you my +notion of those combustibles, which, in short, is this: that when your +miners come into a close place, where there is no circulation of air +to carry off the effluvia, or atoms constantly rising like fine dust +in a powder-mill, they by knocking and working do increase to be very +numerous, like to those loose particles in a powder-mill. But it is +the work of some time for those vapours to come to perfection; for I +have heard several experienced miners say, that it is common to avoid +the danger of those vapours, by retiring as soon as they see the flame +of their candles burn longer than ordinary, which may be, discerned +sometimes long before the air is thick enough of this combustible +matter to take fire at once, and, like gunpowder, to destroy all. I +did hear one say, that from an inch and a half, once the flame of his +candle did gradually increase to two feet long, and yet he escaped. +Which makes it very plain, that stagnation of air is the sole cause of +this inconvenience in mines, which may be totally prevented by a pipe +going from the ash-pit of our furnace to any part of the mine liable +to stagnation. For the air will press with great violence through the +pipe into the fire, before the combustible matter can be ready to do +any hurt, and passing through the fire, make way for fresh air to +descend in the room of it. So that our fire, instead of blowing up of +your works, is the best means that can be used to prevent so fatal an +accident; and will likewise carry off all unwholesome vapours, damps, +or steams, which may proceed from corruption of air, by stagnations or +vapours arising from any poisonous earth or mineral.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . This notion of yours carries reason and demonstration along +with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But, sir, is not your price too +great for these engines of yours?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I am sure to +have you a friend to me and my engine for ever. For I must tell you, +that I would never have sent my engine into the world, if it would not +raise your water with more ease and conveniency to you and your +servants, and also much cheaper than any other engine ever used in +your works, without which I could never propose any advantage to +myself by it. And to convince you of the truth of my assertion, I dare +undertake the engine shall raise you as much water for eightpence, as +will cost you a shilling to raise the like with your old engines in +coal-pits. By this one article the miner will save one-third part of +his former charge, which is thirty-three pounds six shillings and +eightpence saved out of every hundred pounds. A brave estate gained in +one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight +thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of +water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. +I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such +conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my +engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for +drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be +preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents +your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest +to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable +advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from +the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful +and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine +which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on +it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that +perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a +little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that +certainty and exactness they now do. And for working the engine any +person may have his servant taught it, it being to be learnt in a very +short time by one of an ordinary capacity.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But there are people who pretend to do great things in the +improvement of engines to work by hand or horses, the hope and +expectation of which has hindered some of us in our work and tired +others, so as to make them out of love with all engines, and almost +with the trade of mining. And though I wish the contrary, I fear this +may prove some hinderance to the promoting your interest.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . True, sir, I own that time out of mind there have been +mountebanks and impostors in all faculties who pretend to great +things, but do perform nothing effectually. And it would be hard if +that should be drawn into consequence, that because some are knaves, +therefore none are honest. I know the notions of the perpetual motion, +or self-moving engine, and many such like whims are pretended to by +designing men, and believed by ignorant ones: but the judicious man, +who considers the laws of motion, knows it is an infallible rule, that +whatsoever matter is to be removed upward, must have a force superior +to the weight to be lifted up, if its motion be required as swift as +the motion of the moving cause; if slower, proportionably less +strength will do; if swifter, then the moving cause, as men’s hands, +horses, or dead weight, then must the strength of the moving cause be +increased proportionably, or no motion can be produced. And the +experience of ages shows us this to be a most sure rule, allowing for +friction, which is larger, the more wheels or parts an engine +consisteth of; and, of consequence, the fewer parts or wheels an +engine consisteth of the easier it works; so that by barely looking +on a pump, if it has more parts or wheels than the common crank-work, +you may conclude it worse; if a chain-work or tub-work the same. So +that all that can be expected is, to make those go easier than they +are now made to go by ingenious workmen expert in making them. And if +you try how small a matter will move those engines when not loaded +with water, you will find the friction so small as not worth any +mending, could it be done, especially the tub-gin, whose friction +increases the least in being loaded of any; but the others are vastly +increased by the leathers of their suckers being forced broader, and +rubbing with much greater force against the barrel they work in, +according to the height the pipes are raised.</p> + +<p>And I hope, when it is considered how far this engine of mine differs +from the bare pretensions of ignorant or designing men, and that any +persons may see what my engine will perform before they contract for +it, there will be found no ground for the least suspicion in any +person concerned to employ them in mines; but, to the contrary, afford +us a generous encouragement in a business so conducive to the +increasing the mining trade, and thereby enrich themselves and the +nation, and increase the king’s revenue.</p> + +<p>I could heartily wish all miners, for their own as well as their +country’s interest, were good mechanics, and truly understood the +nature, use, and application of all kinds of engines; for, I am sure, +those that do will be my best friends, without expecting that horses, +or men, or any other strength, can or will do more than what nature +and the laws of motion has allowed them.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill53.gif" alt="illustration page 53" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_1.gif" alt="Thomas Savery I" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_2.gif" alt="Thomas Savery II" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_3.gif" alt="Thomas Savery III" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_4.gif" alt="Thomas Savery IV" /></p> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 46879 ***</div> +</body> + +</html> diff --git a/46879-h/images/figure_1.gif 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + +Title: The Miner's Friend + An Engine to Raise Water by Fire + +Author: Thomas Savery + +Release Date: September 17, 2014 [EBook #46879] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + + + + +Produced by Steffen Haugk + + + + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN THOMAS SAVERY, The inventor of the steam engine - see frontispiece.gif] + + +THE +MINER’S FRIEND; +OR, +~An Engine~ +TO +RAISE WATER BY FIRE, +DESCRIBED. +AND OF THE MANNER OF FIXING IT IN MINES; +WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL OTHER USES IT +IS APPLICABLE UNTO; AND AN +ANSWER TO THE OBJECTIONS MADE AGAINST IT. +BY +THOMAS SAVERY, Gent. + +Pigri est ingenii contentum esse his, quæ ab aliis inventa sunt. + SENECA. + +LONDON: PRINETD FOR S. CROUCH, AT THE CORNER +OF POPE’S HEAD-ALLEY IN CORNHILL. 1702. + +Reprinted, 1827. + + + + +LONDON: +Printed by W. Clowes. +Stanford-street + + + + +TO THE KING. + + +SIR, +Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment +before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described +in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming +satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously +enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to +pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it +being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with +that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but +it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty’s +subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, +all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, +seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty’s sacred +protection. + +It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound +respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your +Majesty’s royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it +had birth in your Majesty’s auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to +perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal +approbation, which is the utmost ambition of, + + May it please your Majesty, + Your Majesty’s + most humble, most loyal, + and most obedient Subject, + + THOMAS SAVERY. + + + + +TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY. + + +At the request of some of your members, at the weekly meeting, at +Gresham-college, June the 14th, 1699, I had the honour to work a small +model of my engine before you, and you were pleased to approve of it. +Since which I have met with great difficulties and expense, to +instruct handicraft artificers to form my engine according to my +design; but my workmen, after so much experience, are become such +masters of the thing, that they oblige themselves to deliver what +engines they make me exactly tight and fit for service, and as such I +dare warrant them to any body that has occasion for them. + +Your kindness in countenancing this invention in its first appearance +in the world, gives me hopes the usefulness of it will make it more +acceptable to your honourable Society, as they are the most proper +judges of what advantage it may be to mankind. And it would be +ungrateful in me not to make use of this opportunity to return you my +most humble and hearty thanks for the honour and favour you did me in +approving my design, and publishing it to the world,[1] which shall be +always acknowledged by + + Your most obliged + and most humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + +[1] Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 252. + + + + +TO THE +GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS +IN THE +MINES OF ENGLAND. + + +I am very sensible a great many among you do as yet look on my +invention of raising water by the impellent force of fire, a useless +sort of a project, that never can answer my designs or pretensions; +and that it is altogether impossible that such an engine as this can +be wrought under ground, and succeed in the raising of water, and +draining your mines, so as to deserve any encouragement from you. I am +not very fond of lying under the scandal of a bare projector; and, +therefore, present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay +before you the uses of it, and leave it to your consideration whether +it be worth your while to make use of it or no. I can easily give +grains of allowance for your suspicions, because I know very well what +miscarriages there have been by people ignorant of what they pretend +to. These I know have been so frequent, so fair and promising at +first, but so short of performing what they pretended to, that your +prudence and discretion will not now suffer you to believe any thing +without a demonstration, your appetites to new inventions of this +nature having been balked too often; yet, after all, I must beg you +not to condemn me, before you have read what I have to say for myself; +and let not the failures of others prejudice me, or be placed to my +account. I have often lamented the want of understanding the true +powers of nature, which misfortune has, of late, put some on making +such vast engines and machines, both troublesome and expensive, yet of +no manner of use, inasmuch as the old engines, used many ages past, +far exceeded them; and I fear, whoever, by the old causes of motion, +pretends to improvements within this last century, does betray his +knowledge and judgment; for more than an hundred years since, men and +horses would raise by engines, then made, as much water as they have +ever since done, or I believe ever will, or according to the law of +nature ever can do; and though my thoughts have been long employed +about water-works, I should never have pretended to any invention of +that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much +stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion, than any before made +use of. But finding this of rarefaction by fire, the consideration of +the difficulties the miners and colliers labour under by the frequent +disorders, cumbersomeness, and in general of water-engines, encouraged +me to invent engines to work by this new force; that though I was +obliged to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable difficulties, I +spared neither time, pains, nor money, till I had absolutely conquered +them. I hope this will, at least, encourage you to read over this +small treatise I now put into your hands, for the further and more +particular information of the nature and uses of this engine for +raising water by the force of fire; after which, I shall patiently +submit to any judgment you shall please to pass upon me or the +invention, and may have reason to believe you will not any longer +suffer your judgments to be imposed on by those, whose profit and +interest it may seem to be to condemn both right and wrong; I mean +such who make your common gins, and their friends and acquaintance +among you; though I am very sure the promotion of the use of this +engine is their true interest, as I very plainly prove thus:-- + +The cheaper water is drawn, the more is the miner encouraged to +adventure; the more the miner adventures, the more pits or shafts must +be sunk; the more shafts or pits are sunk, the more wood-work will be +necessarily employed in timbering them, or supporting the sides from +falling in where the earth is loose; besides windlasses and all other +utensils of wood used in mines, or the trades depending thereon must +be more, which, by increasing the carpenters’ trade in general, will +make them sufficient amends for the loss of a small part of that +branch of their trade, called gin-making. As for pump-making, that +part of the trade will be much improved by my engine; for I must use +board and timber for pipes, and have considerable employment for +pump-makers and carpenters for timber used about my engine; but shall +never employ any other person in making pipes, or any other +carpenter’s work I shall have to do, but the person who was before +employed in the work, or such as shall be recommended, as a person +employed in the mines of the country wheresoever I shall fix engines, +provided they will work as cheap, and fairly, and observe the orders +and directions given them; for my design is not, in the least, to +prejudice the artificers, or, indeed, any other sort of people by this +invention; but, on the contrary, is intended for the benefit and +advantage of mankind in general, especially the people of my own +nation; and wherein, you gentlemen concerned in mines, may, if you +please, reap the greatest profit. + +And although I do not question but the plan and draught of my engine +will be very well and readily understood with many gentlemen, by the +description here given; yet it will require a longer time in others to +employ their minds and thoughts more intensely about it, especially +such as have not been familiar and acquainted with things of this +kind; but should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem +intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have +given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the +attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is +familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a +very little time; insomuch, that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen +years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were +taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the +engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; +and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when +you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to +yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other +advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works +in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the +labours of + + Your real Friend and humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + _London, +Sept. 22,_ 1701. + + + + +A DESCRIPTION +OF THE +DRAUGHT OF THE ENGINE, +FOR RAISING WATER BY FIRE. + + + _a_, _a_, The furnaces. + _b_, B, the two fire-places. + _c_, the funnel or chimney. + _d_, the small boiler. + _e_, the pipe and cock of it. + _f_, the screw that covers and confines its force. + _g_, a small cock, a pipe going within eight inches of its bottom. + _h_, A larger pipe going the same depth. + _i_, a clack on the top of the said pipe. + _k_, a pipe going from the box of the said clack or valve, into the +great boiler, about an inch into it. + _l_, the great boiler. + _m_, the screw with the regulator. + _n_, a small cock and pipe going half way down the great boiler. + _o_, O, steam-pipes, one end of each screw to the regulator, and the +other ends to the receivers. + _p_, P, the vessels called receivers. + _q_, q, the screws which bring on the pipes and clacks in the front +of the engine. + _r_, _r_, R, R, valves or clack of brass, with screws to open and +come at them upon occasion. + _s_, the force-pipe. + _t_, the sucking-pipe. + _v_, a square frame of wood, with holes round its bottom in the +water. + _x_, a cistern with a buoy-cock coming from the force-pipe. + _y_, a cock and pipe coming from the bottom of the said cistern. + _z_, the handle of the regulator. + + + + + +CHAPTER FIRST. +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + + +The first thing is to fix the engine in a good double furnace, so +contrived that the flame of your fire may circulate round and +encompass your two boilers to the best advantage, as you do coppers +for brewing. Before you make any fire, unscrew _g_ and _n_, being the +two small gauge-pipes and cocks belonging to the two boilers, and at +the holes, fill _l_, the great boiler, two-thirds full of water, and +_d_, the small boiler, quite full; then screw in the said pipes again +as fast and light as possible; then light the fire at _b_. When the +water in _l_ boils, the handle of the regulator, marked _z_, must be +thrust from you as far as it will go, which makes all the steam rising +from the water in _l_ pass with irresistible force through _o_ into +_p_, pushing out all the air before it, through the clack, _r_, making +a noise as it goes; and when all is gone out, the bottom of the +vessel, _p_, will be very hot; then pull the handle of the regulator +to you, by which means you stop _o_, and force your steam through _o_ +into the _p_, until that vessel has discharged its air through the +clack, _r_, up the force-pipe. In the mean time, by the steam’s +condensing in the vessel _p_, a vacuum or emptiness is created, so +that the water must, and will, necessarily, raise up, through _t_, the +sucking-pipe, lifting up the clack, _r_, and filling the vessel, _p_. + +In the mean time, the vessel, _p_, being emptied of its air, turn the +handle of the regulator from you again, and the force is upon the +surface of the water in _p_, which surface being only heated by the +steam, it does not condense it, but the steam gravitates or presses +with an elastic quality like air; still increasing its elasticity or +spring, till it counterpoises, or rather exceeds the weight of the +water ascending in _s_, the forcing-pipe, out of which, the water in +_p_ will be immediately discharged when once gotten to the top, which +takes up some time to recover that power; which having once got, and +being in work, it is easy for any one that never saw the engine, after +half an hour’s experience, to keep a constant stream running out the +full bore of the pipe, _s_; for, on the outside of the vessel, _p_, +you may see how the water goes out, as well as if the vessel were +transparent; for, as far as the steam continues within the vessel, so +far is the vessel dry without, and so very hot, as scarce to endure +the least touch of the hand; but as far as the water is, the said +vessel will be cold and wet, where any water has fallen on it; which +cold and moisture vanishes as fast as the steam, in its descent, takes +place of the water; but if you force all the water out, the steam, or +a small part thereof, going through _r_, will rattle the clack, so as +to give sufficient notice to pall the handle of the regulator to you, +which, at the same time, begins to force out the water from _p_, +without the least alteration of the stream; only, sometimes, the +stream of water will be somewhat stronger than before, if you pull the +handle of the regulator before any considerable quantity of steam be +gone up the clack, _r_; but it is much better to let none of the steam +go off, for that is but losing so much strength, and is easily +prevented, by polling the regulator some little time before the vessel +forcing is quite emptied. This being done, immediately turn the cock +or pipe of the cistern, _x_, on _p_, so that the water proceeding from +_x_, through _y_, which is never open but when turned on _p_, or _P_; +but when between them, is tight and stanch; I say, the water, falling +on _p_, causes, by its coolness, the steam, which had such great force +just before to its elastic power, to condense, and become a vacuum or +empty apace, so that the vessel, _p_, is, by the external pressure of +the atmosphere, or what is vulgarly called suction, immediately +refilled, while _p_ is emptying; which being done, you push the handle +of the regulator from you, and throw the force on _p_, pulling the +condensing pipe over _p_, causing the steam in that vessel to +condense, so that it fills, while the other empties. The labour of +turning these two parts of the engine, viz. the regulator and +water-cock, and attending the fire, being no more than what a boy’s +strength can perform for a day together, and is as easily learned as +their driving of a horse in a tub-gin; yet, after all, I would have +men, and those, too, the most apprehensive, employed in working of the +engine, supposing them more careful than boys. The difference of this +charge is not to be mentioned or accounted of, when we consider the +vast profit which those who use the engine will reap by it. + +The ingenious reader will, probably, here object, that the steam being +the cause of this motion and force, and that steam is but water +rarefied, the boiler, _l_, must in some certain time be emptied, so as +the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler, or endanger +the burning out or melting the bottom of the boiler. + +To answer which, please to observe the use of the small boiler, _d_, +when it is thought fit by the person tending the engine to replenish +the great boiler, which requires an hour and a half, or two hours’ +time to the sinking one foot of water; then, I say, by turning the +cock of the small boiler, _e_, you cut off all communication between +_s_, the great force-pipe, and _d_, the small boiler, by which means +_d_ grows immediately hot, by throwing a little fire into _b_, and the +water of which boils, and in a very little time it gains more strength +than the great boiler; for the force of the great boiler being +perpetually spending and going out, and the other winding up, or +increasing, it is not long before the force in _d_ exceeds that in +_l_, so that the water in _d_ being depressed in _d_ by its own steam +or vapour, must necessarily rise through the pipe, _h_, opening the +clack, _i_, and so go through the pipe, _k_, into _l_, running till +the surface of the water in _d_ is equal to the bottom of the pit, +_h_; then steam and water going together, will, by a noise in the +clack, _i_, give sufficient assurance that _d_ has discharged and +emptied itself into _l_, to within eight inches of the bottom; and +inasmuch as, from the top of _d_ to the bottom of its pipe, _h_, is +contained about as much water as will replenish _l_, one foot, so you +may be certain _l_ is replenished one foot of course; then you open +the cock, _i_, and refill _d_ immediately; so that here is a constant +motion without fear or danger of disorder, or decay, if you would, at +any time, know if the great boiler, _l_, be more than half exhausted, +turn the small cock, _n_, whose pipe will deliver water, if the water +be above the level of its bottom, which is half way down the boiler; +if not, it will deliver steam. So, likewise, will _g_ show you if you +have more or less than eight inches of water in _d_, by which means +nothing but a stupid and wilful neglect, or mischievous design, +carried on for some hours, can any ways hurt the engine; and if a +master is suspicious of the design of a servant to do mischief, it is +easily discovered by those gauge-pipes; for if he come when the engine +is at work, and find the surface, _c_, of the water in _l_, below the +bottom of the gauge-pipe, _n_, or the water in _d_ below the bottom of +_g_, such a servant deserves correction, though three hours after +that, the working on would not damage or exhaust the boilers; as that, +in a word, the clacks being in all water-works always found the better +the longer they are used, and all the moving parts of our engine being +of like nature, the furnace being made of Stourbridge, or Windsor +brick, or fire-stone, I do not see it possible for the engine to decay +in many years; for the clacks, boxes, and mitre-pipe, regulator, and +cocks, are all of brass; and the vessels made of the best hammered +copper, of sufficient thickness to sustain the force of the working +the engine. In short, the engine is so naturally adapted to perform +what is required, that even those of the most ordinary and meanest +capacity may work it for some years without any injury, if not hired +or employed by some base person on purpose to destroy it; for after +the engine is once fixed, and at work, I may modestly affirm that the +adventurer, or supervisor of the mine, will be freed from that +perpetual charge, expense, and trouble of repairs, which all other +engines ever yet employed in mines for the raising of water, are +continually liable unto. + + + + +CHAPTER SECOND. +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + +* * * * * + +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE +MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + + +It may be supposed that there are few people among us so ignorant, but +must necessarily know of what value the falls of water are in most +places, as being applicable to mills, which are made after various +kinds and forms, according to the different genius and abilities of +the millwright, for mill-work being in a manner infinitely +diversified; and had I leisure to comment thereon, and give you an +account, not only of the vast variety that I have seen and heard of, +but (when encouraged) what may yet be brought to work by a steady +stream, and the rotation or circular motion of a water-wheel, it would +swell these papers to a much larger volume than was at first designed, +and frustrate my intended brevity. I only just hint this to show what +use this engine may be put to in working of mills, especially where +coals are cheap. + +I have only this to urge, that water, in its fall from any determinate +height, has simply a force answerable and equal to the force that +raises it. So that an engine which will raise as much water as two +horses working together at one time in such a work can do, and for +which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the +same, then, I say, such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or +twelve horses; and whereas this engine may be made large enough to do +the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses +to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work, it will be +improper to stint or confine its uses and operation in respect of +water-mills. + +2. It may be of great use for palaces, for the nobility’s or +gentlemen’s houses; for, by a cistern on the top of a house, yoy may, +with a great deal of ease and little charge, throw what quantity of +water you have occasion for to the top of any house; which water, in +its fall, makes you what sorts of fountains you please, and supplies +any room in the house, and it is of excellent use in case of fire, of +which more hereafter. + +3. Nothing can be more fit for serving cities and towns with water, +except a crank-work by the force of a river. In the composing such +sort of engines, I think no person hath excelled the ingenious Mr. +George Sorocold; but where they are forced to use horses, or any other +strength, I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have +the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any +yet discovered or invented. + +4. As for draining fens, marshes, &c. I suppose I need say no more +than this, that that force which will raise great quantities of water +a height of above eighty feet, must necessarily deliver a much greater +quantity at a lesser height; and that it is much cheaper, and every +way easier, especially where coals are water-borne, to continue the +discharge of any quantities of water by our engine, than it can be +done by any horse-engines whatsoever. + +5. I believe it may be made very useful to ships, but I dare not +meddle with that matter, and leave it to the judgment of those who are +the best judges of maritime affairs. + +6. For draining of mines and coal-pits the use of the engine will +sufficiently recommend itself in raising water so easy and cheap; and +I do not doubt, but that, in a few years, it will be a means of making +our mining trade, which is no small part of the wealth of this +kingdom, double, if not treble to what it now is. And if such vast +quantities of lead, tin, and coals, are now yearly exported, under the +difficulties of such an immense charge and pains as the miners, &c. +are now at to discharge their water, how much more may be hereafter +exported, when the charge will be very much lessened by the use of +this engine every way fitted for the use of mines? For the far greater +part of our richest mines and coal-pits are liable to two grand +inconveniences, and thereby rendered useless, viz. the irruption and +excess of subterraneous waters, as not being worth the expense of +draining them by the great charge of horses, or hand labour. Or, +secondly, fatal damps, by which many are struck blind, lame, or dead, +in these subterraneous cavities, if the mine is wanting of a due +circulation of air. Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally +remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant +force of fire. + +For the water, be the mine ever so deep, each engine working it sixty, +seventy, or eighty feet high, by applying or setting the engines one +over another, as shall be showed at large hereafter in the following +pages, you may, by a sufficient number of engines, keep the bottom of +any mine dry; and when once you know how large your feeder or spring +is, it is very easy to know what sized engine, or what number of +engines will do your business. + +The coals used in this engine is of as little value as the coals +commonly burned on the mouths of the coal-pits are; for an engine of a +three-inch bore, or thereabout, working the water up sixty feet high, +requires a fire-place of not above twenty inches deep, and about +fourteen or fifteen inches wide, which will occasion so small a +consumption, that in a coal-pit it is of no account, as we have +experienced. And in all parts of England, where there are mines, coals +are so cheap, that the charge of them is not to be mentioned, when we +consider the vast quantity of water raised by the inconsiderable value +of the coals used and burnt in so small a furnace. What the quantity +of coals used for one engine in a year is cannot easily be +ascertained, because of the different nature of the several sorts of +coals. + +As for the cure of damps by this engine, the air perpetually crowding +into the ash-hole and fire-place, as it is natural for it to do, and +with a most impetuous force discharged with the smoke at the top of +the chimney, the contiguous air is successively following it; so that +not only all steams or vapours whatsoever, that may or can arise, must +naturally force its way through the fire, and so be discharged at the +top with the smoke, but this motion of the fire will occasion the +fresh air to descend from above down all the pits, and every where +else in the mine, but down the chimney; provided you have a heading +drift, or passage from all the shafts or pits in the work, to that +place where the engine stands; whether the mouth of the said pit and +chimney be lower or higher than the mouths of any of the rest of the +pits or shafts in the same work it matters not, for here will be a +perpetual circulation of the air, and with that swiftness as is hardly +to be believed. This I have tried and know to be true, so leave the +ingenious miner to his own judgment, whether, when all the air is in a +swift motion, that any stagnation of air (which has always been +adjudged the cause of damps) can happen in any pit. + + + + +CHAPTER THIRD. +THE MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND +GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER +IN GENERAL. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE +FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, +AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER IN GENERAL. + + +1. For mills. The engine must be made and proportioned according to +the quantity of water required to drive the mill you would make use +of. Now suppose you would make a mill on a plain place, where you will +have only a pond, and a small spring of water no bigger than a quill; +then you must build your mill-house thirty-six feet high, in which you +may make what motions, and what sort of mills you please. By the side +of which house without, may be placed your water-wheel of thirty-two, +thirty-three, or thirty-four feet diameter. For the height of either +house or wheel I would confine no person too exactly, but I guess that +a convenient height, and no more than what is common enough. Under the +wheel I would have a pond, and on the top of the house a cistern of +wood lined with lead. The engine may be fixed in any corner of the +mill-house, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two feet, or more, from the +level of the pond: there two boilers must be fixed, as shown you in +the draught for fixing the engine; and round each of them it is +convenient to have a hoop of iron, with straps coming from them to +rest on the brick-work, to support and strengthen them. Your clacks +and pipes in the front being supported by wood, and the vessels +standing on pedestals of wood, it is convenient that the flue, or +chimney, be so contrived as to draw very sharp, and the flue to +circulate round both the boilers, so that you may lose no part of your +strength. + +2. For palaces, or the nobility’s or gentlemen’s houses, you may fix +the engine in any remote or out-room, whose floor is not above twenty +feet from the level of your water, and you may continue your +force-pipe to the top of your house, with a convenient cistern to hold +your water; into which lay the pipes which may convey the water as you +want it, either for pleasure or common occasions. This way of cisterns +on the top of your houses or palaces would be of singular use in case +of fire, as is said before; for in every staircase a pipe may go down +the corner, or behind the wainscot, so as to be no blemish even to the +finest of staircases. At every floor there may be a turn-cock with a +screw. At the utmost end have likewise a small leather pipe, kept well +oiled in a cupboard, or cavity in your wall, which may not be seen, +but on the opening some part of the wainscot, or such other +contrivance as the ingenious builder shall think fit to make use of. +This pipe of leather must be long enough to reach from the +landing-place, or stair-head, in all rooms depending thereon. One end +of this pipe has a screw to fit the cock in the other pipe, and at the +other end a pipe like the nose of a pair of bellows; so that wherever, +though under a bed, or the remotest part of any room in the house, the +fire breaks out, or is discovered, any servant having screwed the pipe +to the cock, stops the nozle with his thumb till he comes to the place +where the fire is, when, taking away his thumb, he, by directing the +nozle to the fire, immediately extinguishes it, which being liable to +be instantly used, I think a house, palace, &c. that has this +invention, may be said to be morally out of danger of being destroyed, +or so far injured as Whitehall and Kensington have been within a few +years. This command of water must be allowed to be of vast advantage +to any house whatsoever. Where brewing, washing, &c. is used, the +copper standing high may be filled as easy as if it stood low, by +which means the hot liquor may be contrived to go to all your coolers, +and other vessels, either by a syphon, stop-cock, &c. without the +hand-labour of pumping or bailing with buckets. But more conveniencies +than we can at present foresee will be discovered in the use of this +engine for palaces, houses, &c. + +3. For fens, and the like, it is convenient that these engines be made +very large; for at all small heights a small quantity of fire will +deliver prodigious quantities of water. For suppose we force but +thirty feet, and suck twenty feet, if the boiler does but fill the +vessels, called receivers, with steam strong enough to counterpoise or +exceed the force of the atmosphere, or spring of the common air, it +will discharge them at so small a height as thirty feet force in a +very little time; and the steam having very little force or spring is +immediately condensed, so that it will presently suck full in one of +the vessels while the other is discharged. Now, inasmuch as the fire +being more or less adds nothing to the suction. I think such lifts, +being seldom above thirty-six feet, or under six feet, all the +directions further needful for fixing the engine for this use is, in +all lifts under twenty-four feet, to place your engine so as a little +above your force-clacks may be the place of the delivery of your water +into a convenient trough or lander, to be carried off at the most +proper place for its discharge. If it be any height above twenty-four +feet, you have nothing to do but to continue the length of your +force-pipe to the height required. It ought to have a shed or covering +round it, and to be placed at the lowest place of your fen or bog, as +other engines designed for that purpose commonly are. + +As for fixing the engine in ships, when they may be thought probably +useful, I question not but we may find conveniency enough for fixing +them. + +In mines and coal-pits the manner of fixing the engines is this; your +pit being sunk, and a sump, or proper well, or bottom cistern, made to +receive the water coming from the several feeders or springs. +Supposing an engine, carrying three and a quarter inch bore, is to be +fixed to deliver water about seventy feet high, constant running a +full bore; in such case you make a small room in your shaft or pit, +which, together with your shaft or pit, is nine feet square every way. +As for example, suppose your shaft six feet by four, take three feet +out of one side, and five out of another perpendicular nine feet, +making a small floor or platform of boards over that part of the shaft +which goes down to your sump or bottom cistern, so you have a complete +room big enough for your engine, where ten or twelve people may stand +on occasion. This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty +feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into +the sump or bottom cistern. If your ground be loose, it is convenient +to line this room with brick; if rock, it may support itself. But in +this the miner’s judgment must direct him. That the engine will stand +best in the side of the pit where most is dug away, you may see in the +second figure of the engine, being fixed in a mine. Your pipes, &c. +must be fixed with cramps of iron, wood, or such materials as are +convenient, to the side of the pit or shaft, so as to make it stand as +firm as the very shaft itself. Your furnace must be so contrived, that +your flame take a turn or two round each of the boilers, which any +brick-layer used to furnaces can do; it being performed by running a +row of bricks round them both like a screw or worm, which being +contiguous to the wall of the furnaces and the boilers, makes it, as +it were, a worm-funnel round them both; from whence you may continue +your chimney to the top of your work, which you fasten to the sides of +your shafts in the corners as you please, either with iron or wood, or +both, according to the nature of the ground. And wherever you make a +sudden bend or nook near a right angle in the chimney, have a loose +brick or stone to take out the soot, if any should settle in such +place, which in long working it may do. + + + + +SEVERAL OBJECTIONS +AGAINST THE +WORKING THIS ENGINE ANSWERED, +IN +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + + + +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + +_Miner_. Sir, having been some time concerned in the engines now used +for drawing water out of our mines, and hearing so much talk of this +wonderful invention of yours, of raising water by fire, I was very +desirous to enter into some discourse with you concerning the nature, +use, and application of your engine, so strangely differing from all +other engines ever yet invented for our works, and which, you +positively affirm, will every way tend so much to our advantage in the +use of them; and I do not doubt of meeting with that plainness, +freedom, and good humour, that your discourse is generally accompanied +with. And with the same freedom resolve me in such questions as the +general sense of us miners may naturally propose to object against the +use of your engine, especially such of us as are yet ignorant of its +use and operation, who are more capable to judge of fact, than of the +nature and power of that force which raises your water. + +_Author_. Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for your freedom, and +shall readily embrace all opportunities to inform and explain to you +the true use and nature of my engine; and, therefore, desire you, with +all imaginable freedom, to proceed and ask what questions you please, +either as to your own thoughts, as well as what has been suggested to +you by others. And you may be assured of a plain and candid answer to +all your objections. + +_Miner_. Then, sir, which way will you go to work with your engine to +clear an old work full of water? + +_Author_. Why, sir, to deal plainly with you, if your shafts are, or +may be cut straight, your tub-engines, or chain pumps, may draw forth +the water. And the charge, in that respect, is not to be accounted +for, because no mine would be thrown up or neglected but on account of +the feeders or springs, which being certain, and constantly to be +carried off winter and summer, the prospect of being likely to +succeed, makes your mine worth working or emptying within twenty feet +of the bottom, if ever they were worth sinking, though you work or +drain by the common way of tubs or chain-pumps. And could the constant +charge of those engines be afforded, numbers of them will empty and +keep under any work; but it is the constant charge of carrying off +what the springs bring in is the chief thing to be considered in the +business of mines, which constant charge is what we lessen very much +by this engine of mine. + +_Miner_. What signifies your engine then, sir, if it be not capable of +sinking or forking an old mine? + +_Author_. Hold, my good friend, a little patience; I have dealt +plainly and impartially with you about the use of your old engines: +and for my engine, it will clear an old work, if full of water, as +readily as your tub-gins or chain-pumps, provided the shafts are good. +The method I propose to clear an old mine, if sixty feet deep, and +full of water, the feeders not above two-inch bore, which is done at a +very small charge after this manner; _viz_. I fix my engine on the top +of the mine, and only suck and deliver a three and a quarter inch +bore; as soon as we have sunk the water as far as our suction will go, +which will be some twenty-two, twenty-four, or twenty-six feet deep +below the surface, there I make a room fit to receive another engine, +which I fix with his force-pipe to go up to the top of the pit; and +when I have sunk about twenty-four or twenty-six feet more, then I fix +a smaller engine of two inches bore, which, sucking twenty, and +forcing forty, does your work and keeps all safe; or let your small +engine be kept at work, while you remove the larger engine from the +top to the middle station, and then you will have occasion for no more +than two engines, the greatest of which may be removed as soon as the +smaller is fixed in the lowest or proper station. And that you may be +convinced of my impartiality, it is my opinion, that in gaining an old +work, or sinking a new one, you use your old engines of tub or +chain-pumps: this engine of mine being most proper, when you are come +fairly to the bottom either of the ore or coal; for then, if you have +but one lift, one station or engine-room will be sufficient. And by +having two sumps or bottom cisterns, your water may, in some measure, +settle in one of them in its passage to the other. So that the miners +working tolerably clean, and suffering as little dead or loose coal or +ore as is possible to mix with the water, you may have the water to +draw only a little discoloured; for you know, as well as I, that +generally the water coming from mines or coal-pits, while they work by +the gins now in use, is almost clear water. + +_Miner_. Sir, I thank you for your candour in relation to the clearing +of an old work. But supposing that our water arises thick and muddy, +which you know will sometimes happen, what shall we do with your +engine then? + +_Author_. What you say, sir, I know to be very true, that sometimes +you have thick, muddy gravel and nasty water. To prevent which from +coming into, or offending our pipes, we have a frame of board made +full of holes round about the bottom of our pipe that receives the +water, for sluge or fine dirt it will do my engine no injury. Indeed, +the clearer our water is in our boilers the better it is for our work; +but for our receivers and their clacks you may clear them as you work +it from stones, coal, ore, or any other annoyance, though hung in the +very clack; for by emptying of one or both the receivers of their +water, you cause the motion, either of suction or force, immediately +to be so strong, as to clear and blow out all before it to the top of +the pit; insomuch, that I have found filings of copper, large bits of +metal, considerable quantities of coal and stone, delivered and thrown +up with water out of my engine above sixty feet high. However, clear +water is preferable before the dirty water in the work of mine engine. + +_Miner_. But, dear sir, if sixty, seventy, or eighty feet be the +determinate height for raising of water by your engine, how shall we +use your engine in a mine or pit that requires water to be raised +three times eighty feet, as you know some of our works do. + +_Author_. I heartily thank you, sir, for this last proposal, because I +have now an opportunity to acquaint you, that the force used in my +engine is in a manner infinite and unlimited, and will raise your +water five hundred or one thousand feet high, were any pit so deep; +and that you could find us a way to procure strength enough to support +such an immense weight, as a pillar of water a thousand feet high must +certainly produce. However, to give you an answer, I must entreat you +to give my engine as kind entertainment and fair quarter as you do to +your engines now in use: for, I am sure, you are not ignorant of a +custom used in very deep mines, (in several parts of England,) of +raising their water by several lifts, from cistern to cistern, to a +very great height, although some of their lifts may not be above +twelve, sixteen, or twenty feet a lift at the most. And suppose that +your engine now in use at twenty feet the lift, and my engine at +sixty, seventy, or eighty feet, for at any of these lifts we raise a +full bore of water with much ease, then one lift of my engine at sixty +feet answers to three lifts of your engines at twenty feet, and also +to four of your lifts at eighty feet, &c., which you may please to +take for a sufficient answer to your last objection. I have known, in +Cornwall, a work with three lifts, of about eighteen feet each lift, +and carrying a three and a quarter inch bore, that cost forty-two +shillings per diem, reckoning twenty-four hours the day, for labour, +besides wear and tear of engines; each pump having four men working +eight hours, at fourteenpence a man, and the men obliged to rest at +least one-third part of that time. + +_Miner_. You have, sir, hitherto given me undeniable answers to my +former objections, for which I thank you; but I fancy I shall puzzle +you, when I ask you how you will manage your engine to draw up our +water, where the shafts are not direct, but turn and wind to and fro? + +_Author_. Sir, this last question is so far from being any hardship +put upon my engine, that no engine ever yet invented was so naturally +adapted to work in these crooked shafts as mine is; for let the +windings or turnings of the shafts be what they will, the +perpendicular weight of water is all that my engine has to account +for, and is the same as if it made the figure of a distiller’s worm, +and went through the straightest pipe imaginable, except a little +inconsiderable friction of the water against the side of the pipe that +is crooked, more than is in the straight pipe, which is so small a +matter, that a very nice judge would hardly be able to distinguish +whether the crooked or straight pipe carried off most water in the +working. For the flue that carries the smoke, experience sufficiently +instructs you, that you may turn and wind it any way you please, and +that such windings in their drawing most air do rather improve than +prejudice your flue, as any one experienced in building of furnaces +can inform you. + +_Miner_. Well, sir, I find that our crooked shafts will not any way +incommode your engine: but what think you of accommodating your engine +to the service of the lead mines, whose shafts are many times so +narrow, that it will be very difficult to get your engine down? + +_Author_. I perceive, sir, you are yet much a stranger to the nature +of my engine, which is so furnished with brass screws, and as strong +as the very metal itself, that you may take it to pieces, and with +ease put it together again fit to work in a few hours’ time; and so +contrived, that where a man can well go down, there I can put down my +engine in several pieces and fix them below, for the greatest boiler +belonging to my engine is between twenty-four and thirty inches +diameter, and may, if occasion require, be made yet much narrower and +deeper. And that if it be difficult to bring the shaft of the mine to +fit my engine, I can, with much ease, make my engine to fit the shaft +of any mine. + +_Miner_. But will not these brass valves that you speak of in your +engine, speedily wear out and stop your work? + +_Author_. No: they cannot fail me; because experience shows us, that +brass valves improve, rather than grow worse, by twenty or thirty +years use in any force-work, where constantly worked, and where they +rise and fall twenty times oftener than my valves will do. + +_Miner_. But what think you, sir, if you should meet with such +corrosive water in some of our mines, as will, in a little time, eat +through your copper vessels. + +_Author_. Truly, sir, this question does a little startle me, because +I never expected to meet any water of such a corrosive quality in any +mine: and could I find out a mine, whose water abounds with such acid +particles, as to destroy or injure the copper vessels of my engine, I +would drain that mine for nothing but the water I shall take up; +because the water would be more valuable than any ore (I believe) in +England. And were there even a tenth part of aquafortis to nine-tenths +of common water, which is impossible to suppose it should be, I say, +such a water could have no effect on the coppers, were that water to +lodge some time in the copper vessels, much less in passing through +them with that celerity and rapid motion that always accompanies it. + +_Miner_. But, sir, will not such a continual fire, as must be kept +under your boilers, burn them out in two or three months’ time, and +spoil the work of your engine? + +_Author_. I can assure you they will not decay in some years, unless +some fellow be hired or employed on purpose to do it. And should any +villain be employed to burn, break, or destroy any of the engines now +used in your works for raising of water, we are then on the same level +with you in that point. But I will give you one reason why my engines +will not easily decay, and I am sure that will go further with you +than all the affirmation I can make. For, first of all, although a +white heat will melt copper, and a red heat, and sudden cooling it +again, will scale the copper, yet such a heat as is possible for it to +have or suffer while water is in the boiler can have no ill effect, or +cause any alteration in our copper. A friend of mine has coppers used +in sugar boiling of twenty years’ standing. They may be a small matter +worn with cleaning on the inside, whereas on the outside there does +not appear the least visible decay: for as soon as the fire has thrown +a thin coat of soot on the outside of the boiler, the flame has no +other effect on it than to cause the water in it to boil. + +_Miner_. But we have often combustible vapours in our mines, which +taking fire from the candles used there, do, by a sudden explosion, +destroy both the mine and the miner; and therefore I am afraid that +the fire used in your engine will be very dangerous, and apt to kindle +those combustibles more than our candles. + +_Author_. To answer this objection, I will desire leave to give you my +notion of those combustibles, which, in short, is this: that when your +miners come into a close place, where there is no circulation of air +to carry off the effluvia, or atoms constantly rising like fine dust +in a powder-mill, they by knocking and working do increase to be very +numerous, like to those loose particles in a powder-mill. But it is +the work of some time for those vapours to come to perfection; for I +have heard several experienced miners say, that it is common to avoid +the danger of those vapours, by retiring as soon as they see the flame +of their candles burn longer than ordinary, which may be, discerned +sometimes long before the air is thick enough of this combustible +matter to take fire at once, and, like gunpowder, to destroy all. I +did hear one say, that from an inch and a half, once the flame of his +candle did gradually increase to two feet long, and yet he escaped. +Which makes it very plain, that stagnation of air is the sole cause of +this inconvenience in mines, which may be totally prevented by a pipe +going from the ash-pit of our furnace to any part of the mine liable +to stagnation. For the air will press with great violence through the +pipe into the fire, before the combustible matter can be ready to do +any hurt, and passing through the fire, make way for fresh air to +descend in the room of it. So that our fire, instead of blowing up of +your works, is the best means that can be used to prevent so fatal an +accident; and will likewise carry off all unwholesome vapours, damps, +or steams, which may proceed from corruption of air, by stagnations or +vapours arising from any poisonous earth or mineral. + +_Miner_. This notion of yours carries reason and demonstration along +with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But, sir, is not your price too +great for these engines of yours? + +_Author_. By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I am sure to +have you a friend to me and my engine for ever. For I must tell you, +that I would never have sent my engine into the world, if it would not +raise your water with more ease and conveniency to you and your +servants, and also much cheaper than any other engine ever used in +your works, without which I could never propose any advantage to +myself by it. And to convince you of the truth of my assertion, I dare +undertake the engine shall raise you as much water for eightpence, as +will cost you a shilling to raise the like with your old engines in +coal-pits. By this one article the miner will save one-third part of +his former charge, which is thirty-three pounds six shillings and +eightpence saved out of every hundred pounds. A brave estate gained in +one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight +thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of +water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. +I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such +conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my +engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for +drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be +preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents +your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest +to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable +advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from +the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful +and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine +which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on +it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that +perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a +little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that +certainty and exactness they now do. And for working the engine any +person may have his servant taught it, it being to be learnt in a very +short time by one of an ordinary capacity. + +_Miner_. But there are people who pretend to do great things in the +improvement of engines to work by hand or horses, the hope and +expectation of which has hindered some of us in our work and tired +others, so as to make them out of love with all engines, and almost +with the trade of mining. And though I wish the contrary, I fear this +may prove some hinderance to the promoting your interest. + +_Author_. True, sir, I own that time out of mind there have been +mountebanks and impostors in all faculties who pretend to great +things, but do perform nothing effectually. And it would be hard if +that should be drawn into consequence, that because some are knaves, +therefore none are honest. I know the notions of the perpetual motion, +or self-moving engine, and many such like whims are pretended to by +designing men, and believed by ignorant ones: but the judicious man, +who considers the laws of motion, knows it is an infallible rule, that +whatsoever matter is to be removed upward, must have a force superior +to the weight to be lifted up, if its motion be required as swift as +the motion of the moving cause; if slower, proportionably less +strength will do; if swifter, then the moving cause, as men’s hands, +horses, or dead weight, then must the strength of the moving cause be +increased proportionably, or no motion can be produced. And the +experience of ages shows us this to be a most sure rule, allowing for +friction, which is larger, the more wheels or parts an engine +consisteth of; and, of consequence, the fewer parts or wheels an +engine consisteth of the easier it works; so that by barely looking +on a pump, if it has more parts or wheels than the common crank-work, +you may conclude it worse; if a chain-work or tub-work the same. So +that all that can be expected is, to make those go easier than they +are now made to go by ingenious workmen expert in making them. And if +you try how small a matter will move those engines when not loaded +with water, you will find the friction so small as not worth any +mending, could it be done, especially the tub-gin, whose friction +increases the least in being loaded of any; but the others are vastly +increased by the leathers of their suckers being forced broader, and +rubbing with much greater force against the barrel they work in, +according to the height the pipes are raised. + +And I hope, when it is considered how far this engine of mine differs +from the bare pretensions of ignorant or designing men, and that any +persons may see what my engine will perform before they contract for +it, there will be found no ground for the least suspicion in any +person concerned to employ them in mines; but, to the contrary, afford +us a generous encouragement in a business so conducive to the +increasing the mining trade, and thereby enrich themselves and the +nation, and increase the king’s revenue. + +I could heartily wish all miners, for their own as well as their +country’s interest, were good mechanics, and truly understood the +nature, use, and application of all kinds of engines; for, I am sure, +those that do will be my best friends, without expecting that horses, +or men, or any other strength, can or will do more than what nature +and the laws of motion has allowed them. + + + + +[Illustration: Figure I - see figure_1.gif] +[Illustration: Figure II - see figure_2.gif] +[Illustration: Figure III - see figure_3.gif] +[Illustration: Figure IV - see figure_4.gif] + + + + +Transcriber’s note: + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Miner's Friend, by Thomas Savery + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + +***** This file should be named 46879-0.txt or 46879-0.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/6/8/7/46879/ + +Produced by Steffen Haugk +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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CROUCH, AT THE CORNER +OF POPE'S HEAD-ALLEY IN CORNHILL. 1702. + +Reprinted, 1827. + + + + +LONDON: +Printed by W. Clowes. +Stanford-street + + + + +TO THE KING. + + +SIR, +Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment +before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described +in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming +satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously +enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to +pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it +being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with +that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but +it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty's +subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, +all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, +seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty's sacred +protection. + +It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound +respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your +Majesty's royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it +had birth in your Majesty's auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to +perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal +approbation, which is the utmost ambition of, + + May it please your Majesty, + Your Majesty's + most humble, most loyal, + and most obedient Subject, + + THOMAS SAVERY. + + + + +TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY. + + +At the request of some of your members, at the weekly meeting, at +Gresham-college, June the 14th, 1699, I had the honour to work a small +model of my engine before you, and you were pleased to approve of it. +Since which I have met with great difficulties and expense, to +instruct handicraft artificers to form my engine according to my +design; but my workmen, after so much experience, are become such +masters of the thing, that they oblige themselves to deliver what +engines they make me exactly tight and fit for service, and as such I +dare warrant them to any body that has occasion for them. + +Your kindness in countenancing this invention in its first appearance +in the world, gives me hopes the usefulness of it will make it more +acceptable to your honourable Society, as they are the most proper +judges of what advantage it may be to mankind. And it would be +ungrateful in me not to make use of this opportunity to return you my +most humble and hearty thanks for the honour and favour you did me in +approving my design, and publishing it to the world,[1] which shall be +always acknowledged by + + Your most obliged + and most humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + +[1] Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 252. + + + + +TO THE +GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS +IN THE +MINES OF ENGLAND. + + +I am very sensible a great many among you do as yet look on my +invention of raising water by the impellent force of fire, a useless +sort of a project, that never can answer my designs or pretensions; +and that it is altogether impossible that such an engine as this can +be wrought under ground, and succeed in the raising of water, and +draining your mines, so as to deserve any encouragement from you. I am +not very fond of lying under the scandal of a bare projector; and, +therefore, present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay +before you the uses of it, and leave it to your consideration whether +it be worth your while to make use of it or no. I can easily give +grains of allowance for your suspicions, because I know very well what +miscarriages there have been by people ignorant of what they pretend +to. These I know have been so frequent, so fair and promising at +first, but so short of performing what they pretended to, that your +prudence and discretion will not now suffer you to believe any thing +without a demonstration, your appetites to new inventions of this +nature having been balked too often; yet, after all, I must beg you +not to condemn me, before you have read what I have to say for myself; +and let not the failures of others prejudice me, or be placed to my +account. I have often lamented the want of understanding the true +powers of nature, which misfortune has, of late, put some on making +such vast engines and machines, both troublesome and expensive, yet of +no manner of use, inasmuch as the old engines, used many ages past, +far exceeded them; and I fear, whoever, by the old causes of motion, +pretends to improvements within this last century, does betray his +knowledge and judgment; for more than an hundred years since, men and +horses would raise by engines, then made, as much water as they have +ever since done, or I believe ever will, or according to the law of +nature ever can do; and though my thoughts have been long employed +about water-works, I should never have pretended to any invention of +that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much +stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion, than any before made +use of. But finding this of rarefaction by fire, the consideration of +the difficulties the miners and colliers labour under by the frequent +disorders, cumbersomeness, and in general of water-engines, encouraged +me to invent engines to work by this new force; that though I was +obliged to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable difficulties, I +spared neither time, pains, nor money, till I had absolutely conquered +them. I hope this will, at least, encourage you to read over this +small treatise I now put into your hands, for the further and more +particular information of the nature and uses of this engine for +raising water by the force of fire; after which, I shall patiently +submit to any judgment you shall please to pass upon me or the +invention, and may have reason to believe you will not any longer +suffer your judgments to be imposed on by those, whose profit and +interest it may seem to be to condemn both right and wrong; I mean +such who make your common gins, and their friends and acquaintance +among you; though I am very sure the promotion of the use of this +engine is their true interest, as I very plainly prove thus:-- + +The cheaper water is drawn, the more is the miner encouraged to +adventure; the more the miner adventures, the more pits or shafts must +be sunk; the more shafts or pits are sunk, the more wood-work will be +necessarily employed in timbering them, or supporting the sides from +falling in where the earth is loose; besides windlasses and all other +utensils of wood used in mines, or the trades depending thereon must +be more, which, by increasing the carpenters' trade in general, will +make them sufficient amends for the loss of a small part of that +branch of their trade, called gin-making. As for pump-making, that +part of the trade will be much improved by my engine; for I must use +board and timber for pipes, and have considerable employment for +pump-makers and carpenters for timber used about my engine; but shall +never employ any other person in making pipes, or any other +carpenter's work I shall have to do, but the person who was before +employed in the work, or such as shall be recommended, as a person +employed in the mines of the country wheresoever I shall fix engines, +provided they will work as cheap, and fairly, and observe the orders +and directions given them; for my design is not, in the least, to +prejudice the artificers, or, indeed, any other sort of people by this +invention; but, on the contrary, is intended for the benefit and +advantage of mankind in general, especially the people of my own +nation; and wherein, you gentlemen concerned in mines, may, if you +please, reap the greatest profit. + +And although I do not question but the plan and draught of my engine +will be very well and readily understood with many gentlemen, by the +description here given; yet it will require a longer time in others to +employ their minds and thoughts more intensely about it, especially +such as have not been familiar and acquainted with things of this +kind; but should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem +intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have +given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the +attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is +familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a +very little time; insomuch, that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen +years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were +taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the +engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; +and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when +you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to +yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other +advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works +in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the +labours of + + Your real Friend and humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + _London, +Sept. 22,_ 1701. + + + + +A DESCRIPTION +OF THE +DRAUGHT OF THE ENGINE, +FOR RAISING WATER BY FIRE. + + + _a_, _a_, The furnaces. + _b_, B, the two fire-places. + _c_, the funnel or chimney. + _d_, the small boiler. + _e_, the pipe and cock of it. + _f_, the screw that covers and confines its force. + _g_, a small cock, a pipe going within eight inches of its bottom. + _h_, A larger pipe going the same depth. + _i_, a clack on the top of the said pipe. + _k_, a pipe going from the box of the said clack or valve, into the +great boiler, about an inch into it. + _l_, the great boiler. + _m_, the screw with the regulator. + _n_, a small cock and pipe going half way down the great boiler. + _o_, O, steam-pipes, one end of each screw to the regulator, and the +other ends to the receivers. + _p_, P, the vessels called receivers. + _q_, q, the screws which bring on the pipes and clacks in the front +of the engine. + _r_, _r_, R, R, valves or clack of brass, with screws to open and +come at them upon occasion. + _s_, the force-pipe. + _t_, the sucking-pipe. + _v_, a square frame of wood, with holes round its bottom in the +water. + _x_, a cistern with a buoy-cock coming from the force-pipe. + _y_, a cock and pipe coming from the bottom of the said cistern. + _z_, the handle of the regulator. + + + + + +CHAPTER FIRST. +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + + +The first thing is to fix the engine in a good double furnace, so +contrived that the flame of your fire may circulate round and +encompass your two boilers to the best advantage, as you do coppers +for brewing. Before you make any fire, unscrew _g_ and _n_, being the +two small gauge-pipes and cocks belonging to the two boilers, and at +the holes, fill _l_, the great boiler, two-thirds full of water, and +_d_, the small boiler, quite full; then screw in the said pipes again +as fast and light as possible; then light the fire at _b_. When the +water in _l_ boils, the handle of the regulator, marked _z_, must be +thrust from you as far as it will go, which makes all the steam rising +from the water in _l_ pass with irresistible force through _o_ into +_p_, pushing out all the air before it, through the clack, _r_, making +a noise as it goes; and when all is gone out, the bottom of the +vessel, _p_, will be very hot; then pull the handle of the regulator +to you, by which means you stop _o_, and force your steam through _o_ +into the _p_, until that vessel has discharged its air through the +clack, _r_, up the force-pipe. In the mean time, by the steam's +condensing in the vessel _p_, a vacuum or emptiness is created, so +that the water must, and will, necessarily, raise up, through _t_, the +sucking-pipe, lifting up the clack, _r_, and filling the vessel, _p_. + +In the mean time, the vessel, _p_, being emptied of its air, turn the +handle of the regulator from you again, and the force is upon the +surface of the water in _p_, which surface being only heated by the +steam, it does not condense it, but the steam gravitates or presses +with an elastic quality like air; still increasing its elasticity or +spring, till it counterpoises, or rather exceeds the weight of the +water ascending in _s_, the forcing-pipe, out of which, the water in +_p_ will be immediately discharged when once gotten to the top, which +takes up some time to recover that power; which having once got, and +being in work, it is easy for any one that never saw the engine, after +half an hour's experience, to keep a constant stream running out the +full bore of the pipe, _s_; for, on the outside of the vessel, _p_, +you may see how the water goes out, as well as if the vessel were +transparent; for, as far as the steam continues within the vessel, so +far is the vessel dry without, and so very hot, as scarce to endure +the least touch of the hand; but as far as the water is, the said +vessel will be cold and wet, where any water has fallen on it; which +cold and moisture vanishes as fast as the steam, in its descent, takes +place of the water; but if you force all the water out, the steam, or +a small part thereof, going through _r_, will rattle the clack, so as +to give sufficient notice to pall the handle of the regulator to you, +which, at the same time, begins to force out the water from _p_, +without the least alteration of the stream; only, sometimes, the +stream of water will be somewhat stronger than before, if you pull the +handle of the regulator before any considerable quantity of steam be +gone up the clack, _r_; but it is much better to let none of the steam +go off, for that is but losing so much strength, and is easily +prevented, by polling the regulator some little time before the vessel +forcing is quite emptied. This being done, immediately turn the cock +or pipe of the cistern, _x_, on _p_, so that the water proceeding from +_x_, through _y_, which is never open but when turned on _p_, or _P_; +but when between them, is tight and stanch; I say, the water, falling +on _p_, causes, by its coolness, the steam, which had such great force +just before to its elastic power, to condense, and become a vacuum or +empty apace, so that the vessel, _p_, is, by the external pressure of +the atmosphere, or what is vulgarly called suction, immediately +refilled, while _p_ is emptying; which being done, you push the handle +of the regulator from you, and throw the force on _p_, pulling the +condensing pipe over _p_, causing the steam in that vessel to +condense, so that it fills, while the other empties. The labour of +turning these two parts of the engine, viz. the regulator and +water-cock, and attending the fire, being no more than what a boy's +strength can perform for a day together, and is as easily learned as +their driving of a horse in a tub-gin; yet, after all, I would have +men, and those, too, the most apprehensive, employed in working of the +engine, supposing them more careful than boys. The difference of this +charge is not to be mentioned or accounted of, when we consider the +vast profit which those who use the engine will reap by it. + +The ingenious reader will, probably, here object, that the steam being +the cause of this motion and force, and that steam is but water +rarefied, the boiler, _l_, must in some certain time be emptied, so as +the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler, or endanger +the burning out or melting the bottom of the boiler. + +To answer which, please to observe the use of the small boiler, _d_, +when it is thought fit by the person tending the engine to replenish +the great boiler, which requires an hour and a half, or two hours' +time to the sinking one foot of water; then, I say, by turning the +cock of the small boiler, _e_, you cut off all communication between +_s_, the great force-pipe, and _d_, the small boiler, by which means +_d_ grows immediately hot, by throwing a little fire into _b_, and the +water of which boils, and in a very little time it gains more strength +than the great boiler; for the force of the great boiler being +perpetually spending and going out, and the other winding up, or +increasing, it is not long before the force in _d_ exceeds that in +_l_, so that the water in _d_ being depressed in _d_ by its own steam +or vapour, must necessarily rise through the pipe, _h_, opening the +clack, _i_, and so go through the pipe, _k_, into _l_, running till +the surface of the water in _d_ is equal to the bottom of the pit, +_h_; then steam and water going together, will, by a noise in the +clack, _i_, give sufficient assurance that _d_ has discharged and +emptied itself into _l_, to within eight inches of the bottom; and +inasmuch as, from the top of _d_ to the bottom of its pipe, _h_, is +contained about as much water as will replenish _l_, one foot, so you +may be certain _l_ is replenished one foot of course; then you open +the cock, _i_, and refill _d_ immediately; so that here is a constant +motion without fear or danger of disorder, or decay, if you would, at +any time, know if the great boiler, _l_, be more than half exhausted, +turn the small cock, _n_, whose pipe will deliver water, if the water +be above the level of its bottom, which is half way down the boiler; +if not, it will deliver steam. So, likewise, will _g_ show you if you +have more or less than eight inches of water in _d_, by which means +nothing but a stupid and wilful neglect, or mischievous design, +carried on for some hours, can any ways hurt the engine; and if a +master is suspicious of the design of a servant to do mischief, it is +easily discovered by those gauge-pipes; for if he come when the engine +is at work, and find the surface, _c_, of the water in _l_, below the +bottom of the gauge-pipe, _n_, or the water in _d_ below the bottom of +_g_, such a servant deserves correction, though three hours after +that, the working on would not damage or exhaust the boilers; as that, +in a word, the clacks being in all water-works always found the better +the longer they are used, and all the moving parts of our engine being +of like nature, the furnace being made of Stourbridge, or Windsor +brick, or fire-stone, I do not see it possible for the engine to decay +in many years; for the clacks, boxes, and mitre-pipe, regulator, and +cocks, are all of brass; and the vessels made of the best hammered +copper, of sufficient thickness to sustain the force of the working +the engine. In short, the engine is so naturally adapted to perform +what is required, that even those of the most ordinary and meanest +capacity may work it for some years without any injury, if not hired +or employed by some base person on purpose to destroy it; for after +the engine is once fixed, and at work, I may modestly affirm that the +adventurer, or supervisor of the mine, will be freed from that +perpetual charge, expense, and trouble of repairs, which all other +engines ever yet employed in mines for the raising of water, are +continually liable unto. + + + + +CHAPTER SECOND. +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + +* * * * * + +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE +MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + + +It may be supposed that there are few people among us so ignorant, but +must necessarily know of what value the falls of water are in most +places, as being applicable to mills, which are made after various +kinds and forms, according to the different genius and abilities of +the millwright, for mill-work being in a manner infinitely +diversified; and had I leisure to comment thereon, and give you an +account, not only of the vast variety that I have seen and heard of, +but (when encouraged) what may yet be brought to work by a steady +stream, and the rotation or circular motion of a water-wheel, it would +swell these papers to a much larger volume than was at first designed, +and frustrate my intended brevity. I only just hint this to show what +use this engine may be put to in working of mills, especially where +coals are cheap. + +I have only this to urge, that water, in its fall from any determinate +height, has simply a force answerable and equal to the force that +raises it. So that an engine which will raise as much water as two +horses working together at one time in such a work can do, and for +which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the +same, then, I say, such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or +twelve horses; and whereas this engine may be made large enough to do +the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses +to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work, it will be +improper to stint or confine its uses and operation in respect of +water-mills. + +2. It may be of great use for palaces, for the nobility's or +gentlemen's houses; for, by a cistern on the top of a house, yoy may, +with a great deal of ease and little charge, throw what quantity of +water you have occasion for to the top of any house; which water, in +its fall, makes you what sorts of fountains you please, and supplies +any room in the house, and it is of excellent use in case of fire, of +which more hereafter. + +3. Nothing can be more fit for serving cities and towns with water, +except a crank-work by the force of a river. In the composing such +sort of engines, I think no person hath excelled the ingenious Mr. +George Sorocold; but where they are forced to use horses, or any other +strength, I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have +the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any +yet discovered or invented. + +4. As for draining fens, marshes, &c. I suppose I need say no more +than this, that that force which will raise great quantities of water +a height of above eighty feet, must necessarily deliver a much greater +quantity at a lesser height; and that it is much cheaper, and every +way easier, especially where coals are water-borne, to continue the +discharge of any quantities of water by our engine, than it can be +done by any horse-engines whatsoever. + +5. I believe it may be made very useful to ships, but I dare not +meddle with that matter, and leave it to the judgment of those who are +the best judges of maritime affairs. + +6. For draining of mines and coal-pits the use of the engine will +sufficiently recommend itself in raising water so easy and cheap; and +I do not doubt, but that, in a few years, it will be a means of making +our mining trade, which is no small part of the wealth of this +kingdom, double, if not treble to what it now is. And if such vast +quantities of lead, tin, and coals, are now yearly exported, under the +difficulties of such an immense charge and pains as the miners, &c. +are now at to discharge their water, how much more may be hereafter +exported, when the charge will be very much lessened by the use of +this engine every way fitted for the use of mines? For the far greater +part of our richest mines and coal-pits are liable to two grand +inconveniences, and thereby rendered useless, viz. the irruption and +excess of subterraneous waters, as not being worth the expense of +draining them by the great charge of horses, or hand labour. Or, +secondly, fatal damps, by which many are struck blind, lame, or dead, +in these subterraneous cavities, if the mine is wanting of a due +circulation of air. Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally +remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant +force of fire. + +For the water, be the mine ever so deep, each engine working it sixty, +seventy, or eighty feet high, by applying or setting the engines one +over another, as shall be showed at large hereafter in the following +pages, you may, by a sufficient number of engines, keep the bottom of +any mine dry; and when once you know how large your feeder or spring +is, it is very easy to know what sized engine, or what number of +engines will do your business. + +The coals used in this engine is of as little value as the coals +commonly burned on the mouths of the coal-pits are; for an engine of a +three-inch bore, or thereabout, working the water up sixty feet high, +requires a fire-place of not above twenty inches deep, and about +fourteen or fifteen inches wide, which will occasion so small a +consumption, that in a coal-pit it is of no account, as we have +experienced. And in all parts of England, where there are mines, coals +are so cheap, that the charge of them is not to be mentioned, when we +consider the vast quantity of water raised by the inconsiderable value +of the coals used and burnt in so small a furnace. What the quantity +of coals used for one engine in a year is cannot easily be +ascertained, because of the different nature of the several sorts of +coals. + +As for the cure of damps by this engine, the air perpetually crowding +into the ash-hole and fire-place, as it is natural for it to do, and +with a most impetuous force discharged with the smoke at the top of +the chimney, the contiguous air is successively following it; so that +not only all steams or vapours whatsoever, that may or can arise, must +naturally force its way through the fire, and so be discharged at the +top with the smoke, but this motion of the fire will occasion the +fresh air to descend from above down all the pits, and every where +else in the mine, but down the chimney; provided you have a heading +drift, or passage from all the shafts or pits in the work, to that +place where the engine stands; whether the mouth of the said pit and +chimney be lower or higher than the mouths of any of the rest of the +pits or shafts in the same work it matters not, for here will be a +perpetual circulation of the air, and with that swiftness as is hardly +to be believed. This I have tried and know to be true, so leave the +ingenious miner to his own judgment, whether, when all the air is in a +swift motion, that any stagnation of air (which has always been +adjudged the cause of damps) can happen in any pit. + + + + +CHAPTER THIRD. +THE MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND +GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER +IN GENERAL. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE +FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, +AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER IN GENERAL. + + +1. For mills. The engine must be made and proportioned according to +the quantity of water required to drive the mill you would make use +of. Now suppose you would make a mill on a plain place, where you will +have only a pond, and a small spring of water no bigger than a quill; +then you must build your mill-house thirty-six feet high, in which you +may make what motions, and what sort of mills you please. By the side +of which house without, may be placed your water-wheel of thirty-two, +thirty-three, or thirty-four feet diameter. For the height of either +house or wheel I would confine no person too exactly, but I guess that +a convenient height, and no more than what is common enough. Under the +wheel I would have a pond, and on the top of the house a cistern of +wood lined with lead. The engine may be fixed in any corner of the +mill-house, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two feet, or more, from the +level of the pond: there two boilers must be fixed, as shown you in +the draught for fixing the engine; and round each of them it is +convenient to have a hoop of iron, with straps coming from them to +rest on the brick-work, to support and strengthen them. Your clacks +and pipes in the front being supported by wood, and the vessels +standing on pedestals of wood, it is convenient that the flue, or +chimney, be so contrived as to draw very sharp, and the flue to +circulate round both the boilers, so that you may lose no part of your +strength. + +2. For palaces, or the nobility's or gentlemen's houses, you may fix +the engine in any remote or out-room, whose floor is not above twenty +feet from the level of your water, and you may continue your +force-pipe to the top of your house, with a convenient cistern to hold +your water; into which lay the pipes which may convey the water as you +want it, either for pleasure or common occasions. This way of cisterns +on the top of your houses or palaces would be of singular use in case +of fire, as is said before; for in every staircase a pipe may go down +the corner, or behind the wainscot, so as to be no blemish even to the +finest of staircases. At every floor there may be a turn-cock with a +screw. At the utmost end have likewise a small leather pipe, kept well +oiled in a cupboard, or cavity in your wall, which may not be seen, +but on the opening some part of the wainscot, or such other +contrivance as the ingenious builder shall think fit to make use of. +This pipe of leather must be long enough to reach from the +landing-place, or stair-head, in all rooms depending thereon. One end +of this pipe has a screw to fit the cock in the other pipe, and at the +other end a pipe like the nose of a pair of bellows; so that wherever, +though under a bed, or the remotest part of any room in the house, the +fire breaks out, or is discovered, any servant having screwed the pipe +to the cock, stops the nozle with his thumb till he comes to the place +where the fire is, when, taking away his thumb, he, by directing the +nozle to the fire, immediately extinguishes it, which being liable to +be instantly used, I think a house, palace, &c. that has this +invention, may be said to be morally out of danger of being destroyed, +or so far injured as Whitehall and Kensington have been within a few +years. This command of water must be allowed to be of vast advantage +to any house whatsoever. Where brewing, washing, &c. is used, the +copper standing high may be filled as easy as if it stood low, by +which means the hot liquor may be contrived to go to all your coolers, +and other vessels, either by a syphon, stop-cock, &c. without the +hand-labour of pumping or bailing with buckets. But more conveniencies +than we can at present foresee will be discovered in the use of this +engine for palaces, houses, &c. + +3. For fens, and the like, it is convenient that these engines be made +very large; for at all small heights a small quantity of fire will +deliver prodigious quantities of water. For suppose we force but +thirty feet, and suck twenty feet, if the boiler does but fill the +vessels, called receivers, with steam strong enough to counterpoise or +exceed the force of the atmosphere, or spring of the common air, it +will discharge them at so small a height as thirty feet force in a +very little time; and the steam having very little force or spring is +immediately condensed, so that it will presently suck full in one of +the vessels while the other is discharged. Now, inasmuch as the fire +being more or less adds nothing to the suction. I think such lifts, +being seldom above thirty-six feet, or under six feet, all the +directions further needful for fixing the engine for this use is, in +all lifts under twenty-four feet, to place your engine so as a little +above your force-clacks may be the place of the delivery of your water +into a convenient trough or lander, to be carried off at the most +proper place for its discharge. If it be any height above twenty-four +feet, you have nothing to do but to continue the length of your +force-pipe to the height required. It ought to have a shed or covering +round it, and to be placed at the lowest place of your fen or bog, as +other engines designed for that purpose commonly are. + +As for fixing the engine in ships, when they may be thought probably +useful, I question not but we may find conveniency enough for fixing +them. + +In mines and coal-pits the manner of fixing the engines is this; your +pit being sunk, and a sump, or proper well, or bottom cistern, made to +receive the water coming from the several feeders or springs. +Supposing an engine, carrying three and a quarter inch bore, is to be +fixed to deliver water about seventy feet high, constant running a +full bore; in such case you make a small room in your shaft or pit, +which, together with your shaft or pit, is nine feet square every way. +As for example, suppose your shaft six feet by four, take three feet +out of one side, and five out of another perpendicular nine feet, +making a small floor or platform of boards over that part of the shaft +which goes down to your sump or bottom cistern, so you have a complete +room big enough for your engine, where ten or twelve people may stand +on occasion. This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty +feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into +the sump or bottom cistern. If your ground be loose, it is convenient +to line this room with brick; if rock, it may support itself. But in +this the miner's judgment must direct him. That the engine will stand +best in the side of the pit where most is dug away, you may see in the +second figure of the engine, being fixed in a mine. Your pipes, &c. +must be fixed with cramps of iron, wood, or such materials as are +convenient, to the side of the pit or shaft, so as to make it stand as +firm as the very shaft itself. Your furnace must be so contrived, that +your flame take a turn or two round each of the boilers, which any +brick-layer used to furnaces can do; it being performed by running a +row of bricks round them both like a screw or worm, which being +contiguous to the wall of the furnaces and the boilers, makes it, as +it were, a worm-funnel round them both; from whence you may continue +your chimney to the top of your work, which you fasten to the sides of +your shafts in the corners as you please, either with iron or wood, or +both, according to the nature of the ground. And wherever you make a +sudden bend or nook near a right angle in the chimney, have a loose +brick or stone to take out the soot, if any should settle in such +place, which in long working it may do. + + + + +SEVERAL OBJECTIONS +AGAINST THE +WORKING THIS ENGINE ANSWERED, +IN +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + + + +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + +_Miner_. Sir, having been some time concerned in the engines now used +for drawing water out of our mines, and hearing so much talk of this +wonderful invention of yours, of raising water by fire, I was very +desirous to enter into some discourse with you concerning the nature, +use, and application of your engine, so strangely differing from all +other engines ever yet invented for our works, and which, you +positively affirm, will every way tend so much to our advantage in the +use of them; and I do not doubt of meeting with that plainness, +freedom, and good humour, that your discourse is generally accompanied +with. And with the same freedom resolve me in such questions as the +general sense of us miners may naturally propose to object against the +use of your engine, especially such of us as are yet ignorant of its +use and operation, who are more capable to judge of fact, than of the +nature and power of that force which raises your water. + +_Author_. Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for your freedom, and +shall readily embrace all opportunities to inform and explain to you +the true use and nature of my engine; and, therefore, desire you, with +all imaginable freedom, to proceed and ask what questions you please, +either as to your own thoughts, as well as what has been suggested to +you by others. And you may be assured of a plain and candid answer to +all your objections. + +_Miner_. Then, sir, which way will you go to work with your engine to +clear an old work full of water? + +_Author_. Why, sir, to deal plainly with you, if your shafts are, or +may be cut straight, your tub-engines, or chain pumps, may draw forth +the water. And the charge, in that respect, is not to be accounted +for, because no mine would be thrown up or neglected but on account of +the feeders or springs, which being certain, and constantly to be +carried off winter and summer, the prospect of being likely to +succeed, makes your mine worth working or emptying within twenty feet +of the bottom, if ever they were worth sinking, though you work or +drain by the common way of tubs or chain-pumps. And could the constant +charge of those engines be afforded, numbers of them will empty and +keep under any work; but it is the constant charge of carrying off +what the springs bring in is the chief thing to be considered in the +business of mines, which constant charge is what we lessen very much +by this engine of mine. + +_Miner_. What signifies your engine then, sir, if it be not capable of +sinking or forking an old mine? + +_Author_. Hold, my good friend, a little patience; I have dealt +plainly and impartially with you about the use of your old engines: +and for my engine, it will clear an old work, if full of water, as +readily as your tub-gins or chain-pumps, provided the shafts are good. +The method I propose to clear an old mine, if sixty feet deep, and +full of water, the feeders not above two-inch bore, which is done at a +very small charge after this manner; _viz_. I fix my engine on the top +of the mine, and only suck and deliver a three and a quarter inch +bore; as soon as we have sunk the water as far as our suction will go, +which will be some twenty-two, twenty-four, or twenty-six feet deep +below the surface, there I make a room fit to receive another engine, +which I fix with his force-pipe to go up to the top of the pit; and +when I have sunk about twenty-four or twenty-six feet more, then I fix +a smaller engine of two inches bore, which, sucking twenty, and +forcing forty, does your work and keeps all safe; or let your small +engine be kept at work, while you remove the larger engine from the +top to the middle station, and then you will have occasion for no more +than two engines, the greatest of which may be removed as soon as the +smaller is fixed in the lowest or proper station. And that you may be +convinced of my impartiality, it is my opinion, that in gaining an old +work, or sinking a new one, you use your old engines of tub or +chain-pumps: this engine of mine being most proper, when you are come +fairly to the bottom either of the ore or coal; for then, if you have +but one lift, one station or engine-room will be sufficient. And by +having two sumps or bottom cisterns, your water may, in some measure, +settle in one of them in its passage to the other. So that the miners +working tolerably clean, and suffering as little dead or loose coal or +ore as is possible to mix with the water, you may have the water to +draw only a little discoloured; for you know, as well as I, that +generally the water coming from mines or coal-pits, while they work by +the gins now in use, is almost clear water. + +_Miner_. Sir, I thank you for your candour in relation to the clearing +of an old work. But supposing that our water arises thick and muddy, +which you know will sometimes happen, what shall we do with your +engine then? + +_Author_. What you say, sir, I know to be very true, that sometimes +you have thick, muddy gravel and nasty water. To prevent which from +coming into, or offending our pipes, we have a frame of board made +full of holes round about the bottom of our pipe that receives the +water, for sluge or fine dirt it will do my engine no injury. Indeed, +the clearer our water is in our boilers the better it is for our work; +but for our receivers and their clacks you may clear them as you work +it from stones, coal, ore, or any other annoyance, though hung in the +very clack; for by emptying of one or both the receivers of their +water, you cause the motion, either of suction or force, immediately +to be so strong, as to clear and blow out all before it to the top of +the pit; insomuch, that I have found filings of copper, large bits of +metal, considerable quantities of coal and stone, delivered and thrown +up with water out of my engine above sixty feet high. However, clear +water is preferable before the dirty water in the work of mine engine. + +_Miner_. But, dear sir, if sixty, seventy, or eighty feet be the +determinate height for raising of water by your engine, how shall we +use your engine in a mine or pit that requires water to be raised +three times eighty feet, as you know some of our works do. + +_Author_. I heartily thank you, sir, for this last proposal, because I +have now an opportunity to acquaint you, that the force used in my +engine is in a manner infinite and unlimited, and will raise your +water five hundred or one thousand feet high, were any pit so deep; +and that you could find us a way to procure strength enough to support +such an immense weight, as a pillar of water a thousand feet high must +certainly produce. However, to give you an answer, I must entreat you +to give my engine as kind entertainment and fair quarter as you do to +your engines now in use: for, I am sure, you are not ignorant of a +custom used in very deep mines, (in several parts of England,) of +raising their water by several lifts, from cistern to cistern, to a +very great height, although some of their lifts may not be above +twelve, sixteen, or twenty feet a lift at the most. And suppose that +your engine now in use at twenty feet the lift, and my engine at +sixty, seventy, or eighty feet, for at any of these lifts we raise a +full bore of water with much ease, then one lift of my engine at sixty +feet answers to three lifts of your engines at twenty feet, and also +to four of your lifts at eighty feet, &c., which you may please to +take for a sufficient answer to your last objection. I have known, in +Cornwall, a work with three lifts, of about eighteen feet each lift, +and carrying a three and a quarter inch bore, that cost forty-two +shillings per diem, reckoning twenty-four hours the day, for labour, +besides wear and tear of engines; each pump having four men working +eight hours, at fourteenpence a man, and the men obliged to rest at +least one-third part of that time. + +_Miner_. You have, sir, hitherto given me undeniable answers to my +former objections, for which I thank you; but I fancy I shall puzzle +you, when I ask you how you will manage your engine to draw up our +water, where the shafts are not direct, but turn and wind to and fro? + +_Author_. Sir, this last question is so far from being any hardship +put upon my engine, that no engine ever yet invented was so naturally +adapted to work in these crooked shafts as mine is; for let the +windings or turnings of the shafts be what they will, the +perpendicular weight of water is all that my engine has to account +for, and is the same as if it made the figure of a distiller's worm, +and went through the straightest pipe imaginable, except a little +inconsiderable friction of the water against the side of the pipe that +is crooked, more than is in the straight pipe, which is so small a +matter, that a very nice judge would hardly be able to distinguish +whether the crooked or straight pipe carried off most water in the +working. For the flue that carries the smoke, experience sufficiently +instructs you, that you may turn and wind it any way you please, and +that such windings in their drawing most air do rather improve than +prejudice your flue, as any one experienced in building of furnaces +can inform you. + +_Miner_. Well, sir, I find that our crooked shafts will not any way +incommode your engine: but what think you of accommodating your engine +to the service of the lead mines, whose shafts are many times so +narrow, that it will be very difficult to get your engine down? + +_Author_. I perceive, sir, you are yet much a stranger to the nature +of my engine, which is so furnished with brass screws, and as strong +as the very metal itself, that you may take it to pieces, and with +ease put it together again fit to work in a few hours' time; and so +contrived, that where a man can well go down, there I can put down my +engine in several pieces and fix them below, for the greatest boiler +belonging to my engine is between twenty-four and thirty inches +diameter, and may, if occasion require, be made yet much narrower and +deeper. And that if it be difficult to bring the shaft of the mine to +fit my engine, I can, with much ease, make my engine to fit the shaft +of any mine. + +_Miner_. But will not these brass valves that you speak of in your +engine, speedily wear out and stop your work? + +_Author_. No: they cannot fail me; because experience shows us, that +brass valves improve, rather than grow worse, by twenty or thirty +years use in any force-work, where constantly worked, and where they +rise and fall twenty times oftener than my valves will do. + +_Miner_. But what think you, sir, if you should meet with such +corrosive water in some of our mines, as will, in a little time, eat +through your copper vessels. + +_Author_. Truly, sir, this question does a little startle me, because +I never expected to meet any water of such a corrosive quality in any +mine: and could I find out a mine, whose water abounds with such acid +particles, as to destroy or injure the copper vessels of my engine, I +would drain that mine for nothing but the water I shall take up; +because the water would be more valuable than any ore (I believe) in +England. And were there even a tenth part of aquafortis to nine-tenths +of common water, which is impossible to suppose it should be, I say, +such a water could have no effect on the coppers, were that water to +lodge some time in the copper vessels, much less in passing through +them with that celerity and rapid motion that always accompanies it. + +_Miner_. But, sir, will not such a continual fire, as must be kept +under your boilers, burn them out in two or three months' time, and +spoil the work of your engine? + +_Author_. I can assure you they will not decay in some years, unless +some fellow be hired or employed on purpose to do it. And should any +villain be employed to burn, break, or destroy any of the engines now +used in your works for raising of water, we are then on the same level +with you in that point. But I will give you one reason why my engines +will not easily decay, and I am sure that will go further with you +than all the affirmation I can make. For, first of all, although a +white heat will melt copper, and a red heat, and sudden cooling it +again, will scale the copper, yet such a heat as is possible for it to +have or suffer while water is in the boiler can have no ill effect, or +cause any alteration in our copper. A friend of mine has coppers used +in sugar boiling of twenty years' standing. They may be a small matter +worn with cleaning on the inside, whereas on the outside there does +not appear the least visible decay: for as soon as the fire has thrown +a thin coat of soot on the outside of the boiler, the flame has no +other effect on it than to cause the water in it to boil. + +_Miner_. But we have often combustible vapours in our mines, which +taking fire from the candles used there, do, by a sudden explosion, +destroy both the mine and the miner; and therefore I am afraid that +the fire used in your engine will be very dangerous, and apt to kindle +those combustibles more than our candles. + +_Author_. To answer this objection, I will desire leave to give you my +notion of those combustibles, which, in short, is this: that when your +miners come into a close place, where there is no circulation of air +to carry off the effluvia, or atoms constantly rising like fine dust +in a powder-mill, they by knocking and working do increase to be very +numerous, like to those loose particles in a powder-mill. But it is +the work of some time for those vapours to come to perfection; for I +have heard several experienced miners say, that it is common to avoid +the danger of those vapours, by retiring as soon as they see the flame +of their candles burn longer than ordinary, which may be, discerned +sometimes long before the air is thick enough of this combustible +matter to take fire at once, and, like gunpowder, to destroy all. I +did hear one say, that from an inch and a half, once the flame of his +candle did gradually increase to two feet long, and yet he escaped. +Which makes it very plain, that stagnation of air is the sole cause of +this inconvenience in mines, which may be totally prevented by a pipe +going from the ash-pit of our furnace to any part of the mine liable +to stagnation. For the air will press with great violence through the +pipe into the fire, before the combustible matter can be ready to do +any hurt, and passing through the fire, make way for fresh air to +descend in the room of it. So that our fire, instead of blowing up of +your works, is the best means that can be used to prevent so fatal an +accident; and will likewise carry off all unwholesome vapours, damps, +or steams, which may proceed from corruption of air, by stagnations or +vapours arising from any poisonous earth or mineral. + +_Miner_. This notion of yours carries reason and demonstration along +with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But, sir, is not your price too +great for these engines of yours? + +_Author_. By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I am sure to +have you a friend to me and my engine for ever. For I must tell you, +that I would never have sent my engine into the world, if it would not +raise your water with more ease and conveniency to you and your +servants, and also much cheaper than any other engine ever used in +your works, without which I could never propose any advantage to +myself by it. And to convince you of the truth of my assertion, I dare +undertake the engine shall raise you as much water for eightpence, as +will cost you a shilling to raise the like with your old engines in +coal-pits. By this one article the miner will save one-third part of +his former charge, which is thirty-three pounds six shillings and +eightpence saved out of every hundred pounds. A brave estate gained in +one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight +thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of +water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. +I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such +conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my +engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for +drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be +preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents +your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest +to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable +advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from +the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful +and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine +which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on +it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that +perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a +little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that +certainty and exactness they now do. And for working the engine any +person may have his servant taught it, it being to be learnt in a very +short time by one of an ordinary capacity. + +_Miner_. But there are people who pretend to do great things in the +improvement of engines to work by hand or horses, the hope and +expectation of which has hindered some of us in our work and tired +others, so as to make them out of love with all engines, and almost +with the trade of mining. And though I wish the contrary, I fear this +may prove some hinderance to the promoting your interest. + +_Author_. True, sir, I own that time out of mind there have been +mountebanks and impostors in all faculties who pretend to great +things, but do perform nothing effectually. And it would be hard if +that should be drawn into consequence, that because some are knaves, +therefore none are honest. I know the notions of the perpetual motion, +or self-moving engine, and many such like whims are pretended to by +designing men, and believed by ignorant ones: but the judicious man, +who considers the laws of motion, knows it is an infallible rule, that +whatsoever matter is to be removed upward, must have a force superior +to the weight to be lifted up, if its motion be required as swift as +the motion of the moving cause; if slower, proportionably less +strength will do; if swifter, then the moving cause, as men's hands, +horses, or dead weight, then must the strength of the moving cause be +increased proportionably, or no motion can be produced. And the +experience of ages shows us this to be a most sure rule, allowing for +friction, which is larger, the more wheels or parts an engine +consisteth of; and, of consequence, the fewer parts or wheels an +engine consisteth of the easier it works; so that by barely looking +on a pump, if it has more parts or wheels than the common crank-work, +you may conclude it worse; if a chain-work or tub-work the same. So +that all that can be expected is, to make those go easier than they +are now made to go by ingenious workmen expert in making them. And if +you try how small a matter will move those engines when not loaded +with water, you will find the friction so small as not worth any +mending, could it be done, especially the tub-gin, whose friction +increases the least in being loaded of any; but the others are vastly +increased by the leathers of their suckers being forced broader, and +rubbing with much greater force against the barrel they work in, +according to the height the pipes are raised. + +And I hope, when it is considered how far this engine of mine differs +from the bare pretensions of ignorant or designing men, and that any +persons may see what my engine will perform before they contract for +it, there will be found no ground for the least suspicion in any +person concerned to employ them in mines; but, to the contrary, afford +us a generous encouragement in a business so conducive to the +increasing the mining trade, and thereby enrich themselves and the +nation, and increase the king's revenue. + +I could heartily wish all miners, for their own as well as their +country's interest, were good mechanics, and truly understood the +nature, use, and application of all kinds of engines; for, I am sure, +those that do will be my best friends, without expecting that horses, +or men, or any other strength, can or will do more than what nature +and the laws of motion has allowed them. + + + + +[Illustration: Figure I - see figure_1.gif] +[Illustration: Figure II - see figure_2.gif] +[Illustration: Figure III - see figure_3.gif] +[Illustration: Figure IV - see figure_4.gif] + + + + +Transcriber's note: + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Miner's Friend, by Thomas Savery + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + +***** This file should be named 46879-8.txt or 46879-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/6/8/7/46879/ + +Produced by Steffen Haugk +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of +the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at +www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + +Title: The Miner's Friend + An Engine to Raise Water by Fire + +Author: Thomas Savery + +Release Date: September 17, 2014 [EBook #46879] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + + + + +Produced by Steffen Haugk + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<p class="center"><img src="images/frontispiece.gif" alt="Captain Thomas Savery, The inventor of the steam engine" /></p> + +<h2>THE</h2> +<h1>MINER’S FRIEND;</h1> +<h4>OR,</h4> +<!--An Engine--> +<h1>𝔄𝔫 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔢</h1> +<h4>TO</h4> +<h1>RAISE WATER BY FIRE,</h1> +<h2>DESCRIBED.</h2> +<h3>AND OF THE MANNER OF FIXING IT IN MINES;</h3> +<h5>WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL OTHER USES IT<br /> +IS APPLICABLE UNTO; AND AN</h5> +<h4>ANSWER TO THE OBJECTIONS MADE AGAINST IT.</h4> +<h4>BY</h4> +<h2>THOMAS SAVERY, Gent.</h2> + +<h4>—————</h4> +<pre class="center">Pigri est ingenii contentum esse his, quæ ab aliis inventa sunt. + SENECA. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill00.gif" alt="illustration title page" /></p> + +<h4>—————</h4> + +<h4>LONDON: PRINTED FOR S. CROUCH, AT THE CORNER<br /> +OF POPE’S HEAD-ALLEY IN CORNHILL. 1702.<br /> +——<br /> +Reprinted, 1827.</h4> + + + +<hr /> + +<h4>LONDON:<br /> +Printed by W. Clowes.<br /> +Stanford-street</h4> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill03.gif" alt="illustration page 3" /></p> + +<h2>TO THE KING.</h2> +<h4>—————</h4> + + +<p>SIR,<br /> +Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment +before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described +in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming +satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously +enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to +pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it +being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with +that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but +it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty’s +subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, +all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, +seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty’s sacred +protection.</p> + +<p>It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound +respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your +Majesty’s royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it +had birth in your Majesty’s auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to +perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal +approbation, which is the utmost ambition of,</p> + +<pre> + May it please your Majesty, + Your Majesty’s + most humble, most loyal, + and most obedient Subject, + THOMAS SAVERY. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill04.gif" alt="illustration page 4" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill05.gif" alt="illustration page 5" /></p> + +<h2>TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY.</h2> +<h4>—————</h4> + + +<p>At the request of some of your members, at the weekly meeting, at +Gresham-college, June the 14th, 1699, I had the honour to work a small +model of my engine before you, and you were pleased to approve of it. +Since which I have met with great difficulties and expense, to +instruct handicraft artificers to form my engine according to my +design; but my workmen, after so much experience, are become such +masters of the thing, that they oblige themselves to deliver what +engines they make me exactly tight and fit for service, and as such I +dare warrant them to any body that has occasion for them.</p> + +<p>Your kindness in countenancing this invention in its first appearance +in the world, gives me hopes the usefulness of it will make it more +acceptable to your honourable Society, as they are the most proper +judges of what advantage it may be to mankind. And it would be +ungrateful in me not to make use of this opportunity to return you my +most humble and hearty thanks for the honour and favour you did me in +approving my design, and publishing it to the world,* which shall be +always acknowledged by</p> + +<pre> + Your most obliged + and most humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + * Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 252. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill06.gif" alt="illustration page 6" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill07.gif" alt="illustration page 7" /></p> + +<h4>TO THE</h4> +<h2>GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS</h2> +<h4>IN THE</h4> +<h2>MINES OF ENGLAND.</h2> +<h4>—————</h4> + + + + + +<p>I am very sensible a great many among you do as yet look on my +invention of raising water by the impellent force of fire, a useless +sort of a project, that never can answer my designs or pretensions; +and that it is altogether impossible that such an engine as this can +be wrought under ground, and succeed in the raising of water, and +draining your mines, so as to deserve any encouragement from you. I am +not very fond of lying under the scandal of a bare projector; and, +therefore, present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay +before you the uses of it, and leave it to your consideration whether +it be worth your while to make use of it or no. I can easily give +grains of allowance for your suspicions, because I know very well what +miscarriages there have been by people ignorant of what they pretend +to. These I know have been so frequent, so fair and promising at +first, but so short of performing what they pretended to, that your +prudence and discretion will not now suffer you to believe any thing +without a demonstration, your appetites to new inventions of this +nature having been balked too often; yet, after all, I must beg you +not to condemn me, before you have read what I have to say for myself; +and let not the failures of others prejudice me, or be placed to my +account. I have often lamented the want of understanding the true +powers of nature, which misfortune has, of late, put some on making +such vast engines and machines, both troublesome and expensive, yet of +no manner of use, inasmuch as the old engines, used many ages past, +far exceeded them; and I fear, whoever, by the old causes of motion, +pretends to improvements within this last century, does betray his +knowledge and judgment; for more than an hundred years since, men and +horses would raise by engines, then made, as much water as they have +ever since done, or I believe ever will, or according to the law of +nature ever can do; and though my thoughts have been long employed +about water-works, I should never have pretended to any invention of +that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much +stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion, than any before made +use of. But finding this of rarefaction by fire, the consideration of +the difficulties the miners and colliers labour under by the frequent +disorders, cumbersomeness, and in general of water-engines, encouraged +me to invent engines to work by this new force; that though I was +obliged to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable difficulties, I +spared neither time, pains, nor money, till I had absolutely conquered +them. I hope this will, at least, encourage you to read over this +small treatise I now put into your hands, for the further and more +particular information of the nature and uses of this engine for +raising water by the force of fire; after which, I shall patiently +submit to any judgment you shall please to pass upon me or the +invention, and may have reason to believe you will not any longer +suffer your judgments to be imposed on by those, whose profit and +interest it may seem to be to condemn both right and wrong; I mean +such who make your common gins, and their friends and acquaintance +among you; though I am very sure the promotion of the use of this +engine is their true interest, as I very plainly prove thus:--</p> + +<p>The cheaper water is drawn, the more is the miner encouraged to +adventure; the more the miner adventures, the more pits or shafts must +be sunk; the more shafts or pits are sunk, the more wood-work will be +necessarily employed in timbering them, or supporting the sides from +falling in where the earth is loose; besides windlasses and all other +utensils of wood used in mines, or the trades depending thereon must +be more, which, by increasing the carpenters’ trade in general, will +make them sufficient amends for the loss of a small part of that +branch of their trade, called gin-making. As for pump-making, that +part of the trade will be much improved by my engine; for I must use +board and timber for pipes, and have considerable employment for +pump-makers and carpenters for timber used about my engine; but shall +never employ any other person in making pipes, or any other +carpenter’s work I shall have to do, but the person who was before +employed in the work, or such as shall be recommended, as a person +employed in the mines of the country wheresoever I shall fix engines, +provided they will work as cheap, and fairly, and observe the orders +and directions given them; for my design is not, in the least, to +prejudice the artificers, or, indeed, any other sort of people by this +invention; but, on the contrary, is intended for the benefit and +advantage of mankind in general, especially the people of my own +nation; and wherein, you gentlemen concerned in mines, may, if you +please, reap the greatest profit.</p> + +<p>And although I do not question but the plan and draught of my engine +will be very well and readily understood with many gentlemen, by the +description here given; yet it will require a longer time in others to +employ their minds and thoughts more intensely about it, especially +such as have not been familiar and acquainted with things of this +kind; but should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem +intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have +given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the +attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is +familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a +very little time; insomuch, that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen +years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were +taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the +engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; +and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when +you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to +yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other +advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works +in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the +labours of</p> + +<pre> + Your real Friend and humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + <i>London, +Sept. 22,</i> 1701. +</pre> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill11.gif" alt="illustration page 11" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill13.gif" alt="illustration page 13" /></p> + +<h2>A DESCRIPTION</h2> +<h4>OF THE</h4> +<h2>DRAUGHT OF THE ENGINE,</h2> +<h4>FOR RAISING WATER BY FIRE.</h4> +<h4>—————</h4> + + <i>a</i>, <i>a</i>, The furnaces.<br /> + <i>b</i>, B, the two fire-places.<br /> + <i>c</i>, the funnel or chimney.<br /> + <i>d</i>, the small boiler.<br /> + <i>e</i>, the pipe and cock of it.<br /> + <i>f</i>, the screw that covers and confines its force.<br /> + <i>g</i>, a small cock, a pipe going within eight inches of its bottom.<br /> + <i>h</i>, A larger pipe going the same depth.<br /> + <i>i</i>, a clack on the top of the said pipe.<br /> + <i>k</i>, a pipe going from the box of the said clack or valve, into the great boiler, about an inch into it.<br /> + <i>l</i>, the great boiler.<br /> + <i>m</i>, the screw with the regulator.<br /> + <i>n</i>, a small cock and pipe going half way down the great boiler.<br /> + <i>o</i>, O, steam-pipes, one end of each screw to the regulator, and the other ends to the receivers.<br /> + <i>p</i>, P, the vessels called receivers.<br /> + <i>q</i>, q, the screws which bring on the pipes and clacks in the front of the engine.<br /> + <i>r</i>, <i>r</i>, R, R, valves or clack of brass, with screws to open and come at them upon occasion.<br /> + <i>s</i>, the force-pipe.<br /> + <i>t</i>, the sucking-pipe.<br /> + <i>v</i>, a square frame of wood, with holes round its bottom in the water.<br /> + <i>x</i>, a cistern with a buoy-cock coming from the force-pipe.<br /> + <i>y</i>, a cock and pipe coming from the bottom of the said cistern.<br /> + <i>z</i>, the handle of the regulator.<br /> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill14.gif" alt="illustration page 14" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>CHAPTER FIRST.</h2> +<h4>MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h4>THE</h4> +<h3>MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE.</h3> +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill17.gif" alt="illustration page 17" /></p> + +<p>The first thing is to fix the engine in a good double furnace, so +contrived that the flame of your fire may circulate round and +encompass your two boilers to the best advantage, as you do coppers +for brewing. Before you make any fire, unscrew <i>g</i> and <i>n</i>, being the +two small gauge-pipes and cocks belonging to the two boilers, and at +the holes, fill <i>l</i>, the great boiler, two-thirds full of water, and +<i>d</i>, the small boiler, quite full; then screw in the said pipes again +as fast and light as possible; then light the fire at <i>b</i>. When the +water in <i>l</i> boils, the handle of the regulator, marked <i>z</i>, must be +thrust from you as far as it will go, which makes all the steam rising +from the water in <i>l</i> pass with irresistible force through <i>o</i> into +<i>p</i>, pushing out all the air before it, through the clack, <i>r</i>, making +a noise as it goes; and when all is gone out, the bottom of the +vessel, <i>p</i>, will be very hot; then pull the handle of the regulator +to you, by which means you stop <i>o</i>, and force your steam through <i>o</i> +into the <i>p</i>, until that vessel has discharged its air through the +clack, <i>r</i>, up the force-pipe. In the mean time, by the steam’s +condensing in the vessel <i>p</i>, a vacuum or emptiness is created, so +that the water must, and will, necessarily, raise up, through <i>t</i>, the +sucking-pipe, lifting up the clack, <i>r</i>, and filling the vessel, <i>p</i>. +</p> + +<p>In the mean time, the vessel, <i>p</i>, being emptied of its air, turn the +handle of the regulator from you again, and the force is upon the +surface of the water in <i>p</i>, which surface being only heated by the +steam, it does not condense it, but the steam gravitates or presses +with an elastic quality like air; still increasing its elasticity or +spring, till it counterpoises, or rather exceeds the weight of the +water ascending in <i>s</i>, the forcing-pipe, out of which, the water in +<i>p</i> will be immediately discharged when once gotten to the top, which +takes up some time to recover that power; which having once got, and +being in work, it is easy for any one that never saw the engine, after +half an hour’s experience, to keep a constant stream running out the +full bore of the pipe, <i>s</i>; for, on the outside of the vessel, <i>p</i>, +you may see how the water goes out, as well as if the vessel were +transparent; for, as far as the steam continues within the vessel, so +far is the vessel dry without, and so very hot, as scarce to endure +the least touch of the hand; but as far as the water is, the said +vessel will be cold and wet, where any water has fallen on it; which +cold and moisture vanishes as fast as the steam, in its descent, takes +place of the water; but if you force all the water out, the steam, or +a small part thereof, going through <i>r</i>, will rattle the clack, so as +to give sufficient notice to pall the handle of the regulator to you, +which, at the same time, begins to force out the water from <i>p</i>, +without the least alteration of the stream; only, sometimes, the +stream of water will be somewhat stronger than before, if you pull the +handle of the regulator before any considerable quantity of steam be +gone up the clack, <i>r</i>; but it is much better to let none of the steam +go off, for that is but losing so much strength, and is easily +prevented, by polling the regulator some little time before the vessel +forcing is quite emptied. This being done, immediately turn the cock +or pipe of the cistern, <i>x</i>, on <i>p</i>, so that the water proceeding from +<i>x</i>, through <i>y</i>, which is never open but when turned on <i>p</i>, or <i>P</i>; +but when between them, is tight and stanch; I say, the water, falling +on <i>p</i>, causes, by its coolness, the steam, which had such great force +just before to its elastic power, to condense, and become a vacuum or +empty apace, so that the vessel, <i>p</i>, is, by the external pressure of +the atmosphere, or what is vulgarly called suction, immediately +refilled, while <i>p</i> is emptying; which being done, you push the handle +of the regulator from you, and throw the force on <i>p</i>, pulling the +condensing pipe over <i>p</i>, causing the steam in that vessel to +condense, so that it fills, while the other empties. The labour of +turning these two parts of the engine, viz. the regulator and +water-cock, and attending the fire, being no more than what a boy’s +strength can perform for a day together, and is as easily learned as +their driving of a horse in a tub-gin; yet, after all, I would have +men, and those, too, the most apprehensive, employed in working of the +engine, supposing them more careful than boys. The difference of this +charge is not to be mentioned or accounted of, when we consider the +vast profit which those who use the engine will reap by it.</p> + +<p>The ingenious reader will, probably, here object, that the steam being +the cause of this motion and force, and that steam is but water +rarefied, the boiler, <i>l</i>, must in some certain time be emptied, so as +the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler, or endanger +the burning out or melting the bottom of the boiler.</p> + +<p>To answer which, please to observe the use of the small boiler, <i>d</i>, +when it is thought fit by the person tending the engine to replenish +the great boiler, which requires an hour and a half, or two hours’ +time to the sinking one foot of water; then, I say, by turning the +cock of the small boiler, <i>e</i>, you cut off all communication between +<i>s</i>, the great force-pipe, and <i>d</i>, the small boiler, by which means +<i>d</i> grows immediately hot, by throwing a little fire into <i>b</i>, and the +water of which boils, and in a very little time it gains more strength +than the great boiler; for the force of the great boiler being +perpetually spending and going out, and the other winding up, or +increasing, it is not long before the force in <i>d</i> exceeds that in +<i>l</i>, so that the water in <i>d</i> being depressed in <i>d</i> by its own steam +or vapour, must necessarily rise through the pipe, <i>h</i>, opening the +clack, <i>i</i>, and so go through the pipe, <i>k</i>, into <i>l</i>, running till +the surface of the water in <i>d</i> is equal to the bottom of the pit, +<i>h</i>; then steam and water going together, will, by a noise in the +clack, <i>i</i>, give sufficient assurance that <i>d</i> has discharged and +emptied itself into <i>l</i>, to within eight inches of the bottom; and +inasmuch as, from the top of <i>d</i> to the bottom of its pipe, <i>h</i>, is +contained about as much water as will replenish <i>l</i>, one foot, so you +may be certain <i>l</i> is replenished one foot of course; then you open +the cock, <i>i</i>, and refill <i>d</i> immediately; so that here is a constant +motion without fear or danger of disorder, or decay, if you would, at +any time, know if the great boiler, <i>l</i>, be more than half exhausted, +turn the small cock, <i>n</i>, whose pipe will deliver water, if the water +be above the level of its bottom, which is half way down the boiler; +if not, it will deliver steam. So, likewise, will <i>g</i> show you if you +have more or less than eight inches of water in <i>d</i>, by which means +nothing but a stupid and wilful neglect, or mischievous design, +carried on for some hours, can any ways hurt the engine; and if a +master is suspicious of the design of a servant to do mischief, it is +easily discovered by those gauge-pipes; for if he come when the engine +is at work, and find the surface, <i>c</i>, of the water in <i>l</i>, below the +bottom of the gauge-pipe, <i>n</i>, or the water in <i>d</i> below the bottom of +<i>g</i>, such a servant deserves correction, though three hours after +that, the working on would not damage or exhaust the boilers; as that, +in a word, the clacks being in all water-works always found the better +the longer they are used, and all the moving parts of our engine being +of like nature, the furnace being made of Stourbridge, or Windsor +brick, or fire-stone, I do not see it possible for the engine to decay +in many years; for the clacks, boxes, and mitre-pipe, regulator, and +cocks, are all of brass; and the vessels made of the best hammered +copper, of sufficient thickness to sustain the force of the working +the engine. In short, the engine is so naturally adapted to perform +what is required, that even those of the most ordinary and meanest +capacity may work it for some years without any injury, if not hired +or employed by some base person on purpose to destroy it; for after +the engine is once fixed, and at work, I may modestly affirm that the +adventurer, or supervisor of the mine, will be freed from that +perpetual charge, expense, and trouble of repairs, which all other +engines ever yet employed in mines for the raising of water, are +continually liable unto.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill22.gif" alt="illustration page 22" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>CHAPTER SECOND.</h2> +<h4>OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE MAY BE APPLIED UNTO.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h3>OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE</h3> +<h4>MAY BE APPLIED UNTO.</h4> + +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill25.gif" alt="illustration page 25" /></p> + +<p>It may be supposed that there are few people among us so ignorant, but +must necessarily know of what value the falls of water are in most +places, as being applicable to mills, which are made after various +kinds and forms, according to the different genius and abilities of +the millwright, for mill-work being in a manner infinitely +diversified; and had I leisure to comment thereon, and give you an +account, not only of the vast variety that I have seen and heard of, +but (when encouraged) what may yet be brought to work by a steady +stream, and the rotation or circular motion of a water-wheel, it would +swell these papers to a much larger volume than was at first designed, +and frustrate my intended brevity. I only just hint this to show what +use this engine may be put to in working of mills, especially where +coals are cheap.</p> + + +<p>I have only this to urge, that water, in its fall from any determinate +height, has simply a force answerable and equal to the force that +raises it. So that an engine which will raise as much water as two +horses working together at one time in such a work can do, and for +which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the +same, then, I say, such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or +twelve horses; and whereas this engine may be made large enough to do +the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses +to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work, it will be +improper to stint or confine its uses and operation in respect of +water-mills.</p> + +<p>2. It may be of great use for palaces, for the nobility’s or +gentlemen’s houses; for, by a cistern on the top of a house, yoy may, +with a great deal of ease and little charge, throw what quantity of +water you have occasion for to the top of any house; which water, in +its fall, makes you what sorts of fountains you please, and supplies +any room in the house, and it is of excellent use in case of fire, of +which more hereafter.</p> + +<p>3. Nothing can be more fit for serving cities and towns with water, +except a crank-work by the force of a river. In the composing such +sort of engines, I think no person hath excelled the ingenious Mr. +George Sorocold; but where they are forced to use horses, or any other +strength, I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have +the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any +yet discovered or invented.</p> + +<p>4. As for draining fens, marshes, &c. I suppose I need say no more +than this, that that force which will raise great quantities of water +a height of above eighty feet, must necessarily deliver a much greater +quantity at a lesser height; and that it is much cheaper, and every +way easier, especially where coals are water-borne, to continue the +discharge of any quantities of water by our engine, than it can be +done by any horse-engines whatsoever.</p> + +<p>5. I believe it may be made very useful to ships, but I dare not +meddle with that matter, and leave it to the judgment of those who are +the best judges of maritime affairs.</p> + +<p>6. For draining of mines and coal-pits the use of the engine will +sufficiently recommend itself in raising water so easy and cheap; and +I do not doubt, but that, in a few years, it will be a means of making +our mining trade, which is no small part of the wealth of this +kingdom, double, if not treble to what it now is. And if such vast +quantities of lead, tin, and coals, are now yearly exported, under the +difficulties of such an immense charge and pains as the miners, &c. +are now at to discharge their water, how much more may be hereafter +exported, when the charge will be very much lessened by the use of +this engine every way fitted for the use of mines? For the far greater +part of our richest mines and coal-pits are liable to two grand +inconveniences, and thereby rendered useless, viz. the irruption and +excess of subterraneous waters, as not being worth the expense of +draining them by the great charge of horses, or hand labour. Or, +secondly, fatal damps, by which many are struck blind, lame, or dead, +in these subterraneous cavities, if the mine is wanting of a due +circulation of air. Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally +remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant +force of fire.</p> + +<p>For the water, be the mine ever so deep, each engine working it sixty, +seventy, or eighty feet high, by applying or setting the engines one +over another, as shall be showed at large hereafter in the following +pages, you may, by a sufficient number of engines, keep the bottom of +any mine dry; and when once you know how large your feeder or spring +is, it is very easy to know what sized engine, or what number of +engines will do your business.</p> + +<p>The coals used in this engine is of as little value as the coals +commonly burned on the mouths of the coal-pits are; for an engine of a +three-inch bore, or thereabout, working the water up sixty feet high, +requires a fire-place of not above twenty inches deep, and about +fourteen or fifteen inches wide, which will occasion so small a +consumption, that in a coal-pit it is of no account, as we have +experienced. And in all parts of England, where there are mines, coals +are so cheap, that the charge of them is not to be mentioned, when we +consider the vast quantity of water raised by the inconsiderable value +of the coals used and burnt in so small a furnace. What the quantity +of coals used for one engine in a year is cannot easily be +ascertained, because of the different nature of the several sorts of +coals.</p> + +<p>As for the cure of damps by this engine, the air perpetually crowding +into the ash-hole and fire-place, as it is natural for it to do, and +with a most impetuous force discharged with the smoke at the top of +the chimney, the contiguous air is successively following it; so that +not only all steams or vapours whatsoever, that may or can arise, must +naturally force its way through the fire, and so be discharged at the +top with the smoke, but this motion of the fire will occasion the +fresh air to descend from above down all the pits, and every where +else in the mine, but down the chimney; provided you have a heading +drift, or passage from all the shafts or pits in the work, to that +place where the engine stands; whether the mouth of the said pit and +chimney be lower or higher than the mouths of any of the rest of the +pits or shafts in the same work it matters not, for here will be a +perpetual circulation of the air, and with that swiftness as is hardly +to be believed. This I have tried and know to be true, so leave the +ingenious miner to his own judgment, whether, when all the air is in a +swift motion, that any stagnation of air (which has always been +adjudged the cause of damps) can happen in any pit.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill29.gif" alt="illustration page 29" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>CHAPTER THIRD.</h2> +<h4>THE MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND +GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER +IN GENERAL.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h4>THE</h4> +<h2>MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE</h2> +<h4>FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND GENTLEMEN’S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, +AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER IN GENERAL.</h4> +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill33.gif" alt="illustration page 33" /></p> + +<p>1. For mills. The engine must be made and proportioned according to +the quantity of water required to drive the mill you would make use +of. Now suppose you would make a mill on a plain place, where you will +have only a pond, and a small spring of water no bigger than a quill; +then you must build your mill-house thirty-six feet high, in which you +may make what motions, and what sort of mills you please. By the side +of which house without, may be placed your water-wheel of thirty-two, +thirty-three, or thirty-four feet diameter. For the height of either +house or wheel I would confine no person too exactly, but I guess that +a convenient height, and no more than what is common enough. Under the +wheel I would have a pond, and on the top of the house a cistern of +wood lined with lead. The engine may be fixed in any corner of the +mill-house, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two feet, or more, from the +level of the pond: there two boilers must be fixed, as shown you in +the draught for fixing the engine; and round each of them it is +convenient to have a hoop of iron, with straps coming from them to +rest on the brick-work, to support and strengthen them. Your clacks +and pipes in the front being supported by wood, and the vessels +standing on pedestals of wood, it is convenient that the flue, or +chimney, be so contrived as to draw very sharp, and the flue to +circulate round both the boilers, so that you may lose no part of your +strength.</p> + +<p>2. For palaces, or the nobility’s or gentlemen’s houses, you may fix +the engine in any remote or out-room, whose floor is not above twenty +feet from the level of your water, and you may continue your +force-pipe to the top of your house, with a convenient cistern to hold +your water; into which lay the pipes which may convey the water as you +want it, either for pleasure or common occasions. This way of cisterns +on the top of your houses or palaces would be of singular use in case +of fire, as is said before; for in every staircase a pipe may go down +the corner, or behind the wainscot, so as to be no blemish even to the +finest of staircases. At every floor there may be a turn-cock with a +screw. At the utmost end have likewise a small leather pipe, kept well +oiled in a cupboard, or cavity in your wall, which may not be seen, +but on the opening some part of the wainscot, or such other +contrivance as the ingenious builder shall think fit to make use of. +This pipe of leather must be long enough to reach from the +landing-place, or stair-head, in all rooms depending thereon. One end +of this pipe has a screw to fit the cock in the other pipe, and at the +other end a pipe like the nose of a pair of bellows; so that wherever, +though under a bed, or the remotest part of any room in the house, the +fire breaks out, or is discovered, any servant having screwed the pipe +to the cock, stops the nozle with his thumb till he comes to the place +where the fire is, when, taking away his thumb, he, by directing the +nozle to the fire, immediately extinguishes it, which being liable to +be instantly used, I think a house, palace, &c. that has this +invention, may be said to be morally out of danger of being destroyed, +or so far injured as Whitehall and Kensington have been within a few +years. This command of water must be allowed to be of vast advantage +to any house whatsoever. Where brewing, washing, &c. is used, the +copper standing high may be filled as easy as if it stood low, by +which means the hot liquor may be contrived to go to all your coolers, +and other vessels, either by a syphon, stop-cock, &c. without the +hand-labour of pumping or bailing with buckets. But more conveniencies +than we can at present foresee will be discovered in the use of this +engine for palaces, houses, &c.</p> + +<p>3. For fens, and the like, it is convenient that these engines be made +very large; for at all small heights a small quantity of fire will +deliver prodigious quantities of water. For suppose we force but +thirty feet, and suck twenty feet, if the boiler does but fill the +vessels, called receivers, with steam strong enough to counterpoise or +exceed the force of the atmosphere, or spring of the common air, it +will discharge them at so small a height as thirty feet force in a +very little time; and the steam having very little force or spring is +immediately condensed, so that it will presently suck full in one of +the vessels while the other is discharged. Now, inasmuch as the fire +being more or less adds nothing to the suction. I think such lifts, +being seldom above thirty-six feet, or under six feet, all the +directions further needful for fixing the engine for this use is, in +all lifts under twenty-four feet, to place your engine so as a little +above your force-clacks may be the place of the delivery of your water +into a convenient trough or lander, to be carried off at the most +proper place for its discharge. If it be any height above twenty-four +feet, you have nothing to do but to continue the length of your +force-pipe to the height required. It ought to have a shed or covering +round it, and to be placed at the lowest place of your fen or bog, as +other engines designed for that purpose commonly are.</p> + +<p>As for fixing the engine in ships, when they may be thought probably +useful, I question not but we may find conveniency enough for fixing +them.</p> + +<p>In mines and coal-pits the manner of fixing the engines is this; your +pit being sunk, and a sump, or proper well, or bottom cistern, made to +receive the water coming from the several feeders or springs. +Supposing an engine, carrying three and a quarter inch bore, is to be +fixed to deliver water about seventy feet high, constant running a +full bore; in such case you make a small room in your shaft or pit, +which, together with your shaft or pit, is nine feet square every way. +As for example, suppose your shaft six feet by four, take three feet +out of one side, and five out of another perpendicular nine feet, +making a small floor or platform of boards over that part of the shaft +which goes down to your sump or bottom cistern, so you have a complete +room big enough for your engine, where ten or twelve people may stand +on occasion. This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty +feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into +the sump or bottom cistern. If your ground be loose, it is convenient +to line this room with brick; if rock, it may support itself. But in +this the miner’s judgment must direct him. That the engine will stand +best in the side of the pit where most is dug away, you may see in the +second figure of the engine, being fixed in a mine. Your pipes, &c. +must be fixed with cramps of iron, wood, or such materials as are +convenient, to the side of the pit or shaft, so as to make it stand as +firm as the very shaft itself. Your furnace must be so contrived, that +your flame take a turn or two round each of the boilers, which any +brick-layer used to furnaces can do; it being performed by running a +row of bricks round them both like a screw or worm, which being +contiguous to the wall of the furnaces and the boilers, makes it, as +it were, a worm-funnel round them both; from whence you may continue +your chimney to the top of your work, which you fasten to the sides of +your shafts in the corners as you please, either with iron or wood, or +both, according to the nature of the ground. And wherever you make a +sudden bend or nook near a right angle in the chimney, have a loose +brick or stone to take out the soot, if any should settle in such +place, which in long working it may do.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill38.gif" alt="illustration page 38" /></p> + +<hr /> + +<h2>SEVERAL OBJECTIONS</h2> +<h4>AGAINST THE</h4> +<h2>WORKING THIS ENGINE ANSWERED,</h2> +<h4>IN</h4> +<h2>A DIALOGUE</h2> +<h4>BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR.</h4> + +<hr /> + +<h2>A DIALOGUE</h2> +<h4>BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR.</h4> +<h4>—————</h4> +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill41.gif" alt="illustration page 41" /></p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Sir, having been some time concerned in the engines now used +for drawing water out of our mines, and hearing so much talk of this +wonderful invention of yours, of raising water by fire, I was very +desirous to enter into some discourse with you concerning the nature, +use, and application of your engine, so strangely differing from all +other engines ever yet invented for our works, and which, you +positively affirm, will every way tend so much to our advantage in the +use of them; and I do not doubt of meeting with that plainness, +freedom, and good humour, that your discourse is generally accompanied +with. And with the same freedom resolve me in such questions as the +general sense of us miners may naturally propose to object against the +use of your engine, especially such of us as are yet ignorant of its +use and operation, who are more capable to judge of fact, than of the +nature and power of that force which raises your water.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for your freedom, and +shall readily embrace all opportunities to inform and explain to you +the true use and nature of my engine; and, therefore, desire you, with +all imaginable freedom, to proceed and ask what questions you please, +either as to your own thoughts, as well as what has been suggested to +you by others. And you may be assured of a plain and candid answer to +all your objections.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Then, sir, which way will you go to work with your engine to +clear an old work full of water?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Why, sir, to deal plainly with you, if your shafts are, or +may be cut straight, your tub-engines, or chain pumps, may draw forth +the water. And the charge, in that respect, is not to be accounted +for, because no mine would be thrown up or neglected but on account of +the feeders or springs, which being certain, and constantly to be +carried off winter and summer, the prospect of being likely to +succeed, makes your mine worth working or emptying within twenty feet +of the bottom, if ever they were worth sinking, though you work or +drain by the common way of tubs or chain-pumps. And could the constant +charge of those engines be afforded, numbers of them will empty and +keep under any work; but it is the constant charge of carrying off +what the springs bring in is the chief thing to be considered in the +business of mines, which constant charge is what we lessen very much +by this engine of mine.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . What signifies your engine then, sir, if it be not capable of +sinking or forking an old mine?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Hold, my good friend, a little patience; I have dealt +plainly and impartially with you about the use of your old engines: +and for my engine, it will clear an old work, if full of water, as +readily as your tub-gins or chain-pumps, provided the shafts are good. +The method I propose to clear an old mine, if sixty feet deep, and +full of water, the feeders not above two-inch bore, which is done at a +very small charge after this manner; <i>viz</i>. I fix my engine on the top +of the mine, and only suck and deliver a three and a quarter inch +bore; as soon as we have sunk the water as far as our suction will go, +which will be some twenty-two, twenty-four, or twenty-six feet deep +below the surface, there I make a room fit to receive another engine, +which I fix with his force-pipe to go up to the top of the pit; and +when I have sunk about twenty-four or twenty-six feet more, then I fix +a smaller engine of two inches bore, which, sucking twenty, and +forcing forty, does your work and keeps all safe; or let your small +engine be kept at work, while you remove the larger engine from the +top to the middle station, and then you will have occasion for no more +than two engines, the greatest of which may be removed as soon as the +smaller is fixed in the lowest or proper station. And that you may be +convinced of my impartiality, it is my opinion, that in gaining an old +work, or sinking a new one, you use your old engines of tub or +chain-pumps: this engine of mine being most proper, when you are come +fairly to the bottom either of the ore or coal; for then, if you have +but one lift, one station or engine-room will be sufficient. And by +having two sumps or bottom cisterns, your water may, in some measure, +settle in one of them in its passage to the other. So that the miners +working tolerably clean, and suffering as little dead or loose coal or +ore as is possible to mix with the water, you may have the water to +draw only a little discoloured; for you know, as well as I, that +generally the water coming from mines or coal-pits, while they work by +the gins now in use, is almost clear water.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Sir, I thank you for your candour in relation to the clearing +of an old work. But supposing that our water arises thick and muddy, +which you know will sometimes happen, what shall we do with your +engine then?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . What you say, sir, I know to be very true, that sometimes +you have thick, muddy gravel and nasty water. To prevent which from +coming into, or offending our pipes, we have a frame of board made +full of holes round about the bottom of our pipe that receives the +water, for sluge or fine dirt it will do my engine no injury. Indeed, +the clearer our water is in our boilers the better it is for our work; +but for our receivers and their clacks you may clear them as you work +it from stones, coal, ore, or any other annoyance, though hung in the +very clack; for by emptying of one or both the receivers of their +water, you cause the motion, either of suction or force, immediately +to be so strong, as to clear and blow out all before it to the top of +the pit; insomuch, that I have found filings of copper, large bits of +metal, considerable quantities of coal and stone, delivered and thrown +up with water out of my engine above sixty feet high. However, clear +water is preferable before the dirty water in the work of mine engine.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But, dear sir, if sixty, seventy, or eighty feet be the +determinate height for raising of water by your engine, how shall we +use your engine in a mine or pit that requires water to be raised +three times eighty feet, as you know some of our works do.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . I heartily thank you, sir, for this last proposal, because I +have now an opportunity to acquaint you, that the force used in my +engine is in a manner infinite and unlimited, and will raise your +water five hundred or one thousand feet high, were any pit so deep; +and that you could find us a way to procure strength enough to support +such an immense weight, as a pillar of water a thousand feet high must +certainly produce. However, to give you an answer, I must entreat you +to give my engine as kind entertainment and fair quarter as you do to +your engines now in use: for, I am sure, you are not ignorant of a +custom used in very deep mines, (in several parts of England,) of +raising their water by several lifts, from cistern to cistern, to a +very great height, although some of their lifts may not be above +twelve, sixteen, or twenty feet a lift at the most. And suppose that +your engine now in use at twenty feet the lift, and my engine at +sixty, seventy, or eighty feet, for at any of these lifts we raise a +full bore of water with much ease, then one lift of my engine at sixty +feet answers to three lifts of your engines at twenty feet, and also +to four of your lifts at eighty feet, &c., which you may please to +take for a sufficient answer to your last objection. I have known, in +Cornwall, a work with three lifts, of about eighteen feet each lift, +and carrying a three and a quarter inch bore, that cost forty-two +shillings per diem, reckoning twenty-four hours the day, for labour, +besides wear and tear of engines; each pump having four men working +eight hours, at fourteenpence a man, and the men obliged to rest at +least one-third part of that time.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . You have, sir, hitherto given me undeniable answers to my +former objections, for which I thank you; but I fancy I shall puzzle +you, when I ask you how you will manage your engine to draw up our +water, where the shafts are not direct, but turn and wind to and fro?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Sir, this last question is so far from being any hardship +put upon my engine, that no engine ever yet invented was so naturally +adapted to work in these crooked shafts as mine is; for let the +windings or turnings of the shafts be what they will, the +perpendicular weight of water is all that my engine has to account +for, and is the same as if it made the figure of a distiller’s worm, +and went through the straightest pipe imaginable, except a little +inconsiderable friction of the water against the side of the pipe that +is crooked, more than is in the straight pipe, which is so small a +matter, that a very nice judge would hardly be able to distinguish +whether the crooked or straight pipe carried off most water in the +working. For the flue that carries the smoke, experience sufficiently +instructs you, that you may turn and wind it any way you please, and +that such windings in their drawing most air do rather improve than +prejudice your flue, as any one experienced in building of furnaces +can inform you.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . Well, sir, I find that our crooked shafts will not any way +incommode your engine: but what think you of accommodating your engine +to the service of the lead mines, whose shafts are many times so +narrow, that it will be very difficult to get your engine down?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . I perceive, sir, you are yet much a stranger to the nature +of my engine, which is so furnished with brass screws, and as strong +as the very metal itself, that you may take it to pieces, and with +ease put it together again fit to work in a few hours’ time; and so +contrived, that where a man can well go down, there I can put down my +engine in several pieces and fix them below, for the greatest boiler +belonging to my engine is between twenty-four and thirty inches +diameter, and may, if occasion require, be made yet much narrower and +deeper. And that if it be difficult to bring the shaft of the mine to +fit my engine, I can, with much ease, make my engine to fit the shaft +of any mine.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But will not these brass valves that you speak of in your +engine, speedily wear out and stop your work?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . No: they cannot fail me; because experience shows us, that +brass valves improve, rather than grow worse, by twenty or thirty +years use in any force-work, where constantly worked, and where they +rise and fall twenty times oftener than my valves will do.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But what think you, sir, if you should meet with such +corrosive water in some of our mines, as will, in a little time, eat +through your copper vessels.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . Truly, sir, this question does a little startle me, because +I never expected to meet any water of such a corrosive quality in any +mine: and could I find out a mine, whose water abounds with such acid +particles, as to destroy or injure the copper vessels of my engine, I +would drain that mine for nothing but the water I shall take up; +because the water would be more valuable than any ore (I believe) in +England. And were there even a tenth part of aquafortis to nine-tenths +of common water, which is impossible to suppose it should be, I say, +such a water could have no effect on the coppers, were that water to +lodge some time in the copper vessels, much less in passing through +them with that celerity and rapid motion that always accompanies it.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But, sir, will not such a continual fire, as must be kept +under your boilers, burn them out in two or three months’ time, and +spoil the work of your engine?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . I can assure you they will not decay in some years, unless +some fellow be hired or employed on purpose to do it. And should any +villain be employed to burn, break, or destroy any of the engines now +used in your works for raising of water, we are then on the same level +with you in that point. But I will give you one reason why my engines +will not easily decay, and I am sure that will go further with you +than all the affirmation I can make. For, first of all, although a +white heat will melt copper, and a red heat, and sudden cooling it +again, will scale the copper, yet such a heat as is possible for it to +have or suffer while water is in the boiler can have no ill effect, or +cause any alteration in our copper. A friend of mine has coppers used +in sugar boiling of twenty years’ standing. They may be a small matter +worn with cleaning on the inside, whereas on the outside there does +not appear the least visible decay: for as soon as the fire has thrown +a thin coat of soot on the outside of the boiler, the flame has no +other effect on it than to cause the water in it to boil.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But we have often combustible vapours in our mines, which +taking fire from the candles used there, do, by a sudden explosion, +destroy both the mine and the miner; and therefore I am afraid that +the fire used in your engine will be very dangerous, and apt to kindle +those combustibles more than our candles.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . To answer this objection, I will desire leave to give you my +notion of those combustibles, which, in short, is this: that when your +miners come into a close place, where there is no circulation of air +to carry off the effluvia, or atoms constantly rising like fine dust +in a powder-mill, they by knocking and working do increase to be very +numerous, like to those loose particles in a powder-mill. But it is +the work of some time for those vapours to come to perfection; for I +have heard several experienced miners say, that it is common to avoid +the danger of those vapours, by retiring as soon as they see the flame +of their candles burn longer than ordinary, which may be, discerned +sometimes long before the air is thick enough of this combustible +matter to take fire at once, and, like gunpowder, to destroy all. I +did hear one say, that from an inch and a half, once the flame of his +candle did gradually increase to two feet long, and yet he escaped. +Which makes it very plain, that stagnation of air is the sole cause of +this inconvenience in mines, which may be totally prevented by a pipe +going from the ash-pit of our furnace to any part of the mine liable +to stagnation. For the air will press with great violence through the +pipe into the fire, before the combustible matter can be ready to do +any hurt, and passing through the fire, make way for fresh air to +descend in the room of it. So that our fire, instead of blowing up of +your works, is the best means that can be used to prevent so fatal an +accident; and will likewise carry off all unwholesome vapours, damps, +or steams, which may proceed from corruption of air, by stagnations or +vapours arising from any poisonous earth or mineral.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . This notion of yours carries reason and demonstration along +with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But, sir, is not your price too +great for these engines of yours?</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I am sure to +have you a friend to me and my engine for ever. For I must tell you, +that I would never have sent my engine into the world, if it would not +raise your water with more ease and conveniency to you and your +servants, and also much cheaper than any other engine ever used in +your works, without which I could never propose any advantage to +myself by it. And to convince you of the truth of my assertion, I dare +undertake the engine shall raise you as much water for eightpence, as +will cost you a shilling to raise the like with your old engines in +coal-pits. By this one article the miner will save one-third part of +his former charge, which is thirty-three pounds six shillings and +eightpence saved out of every hundred pounds. A brave estate gained in +one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight +thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of +water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. +I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such +conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my +engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for +drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be +preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents +your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest +to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable +advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from +the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful +and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine +which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on +it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that +perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a +little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that +certainty and exactness they now do. And for working the engine any +person may have his servant taught it, it being to be learnt in a very +short time by one of an ordinary capacity.</p> + +<p><i>Miner</i> . But there are people who pretend to do great things in the +improvement of engines to work by hand or horses, the hope and +expectation of which has hindered some of us in our work and tired +others, so as to make them out of love with all engines, and almost +with the trade of mining. And though I wish the contrary, I fear this +may prove some hinderance to the promoting your interest.</p> + +<p><i>Author</i> . True, sir, I own that time out of mind there have been +mountebanks and impostors in all faculties who pretend to great +things, but do perform nothing effectually. And it would be hard if +that should be drawn into consequence, that because some are knaves, +therefore none are honest. I know the notions of the perpetual motion, +or self-moving engine, and many such like whims are pretended to by +designing men, and believed by ignorant ones: but the judicious man, +who considers the laws of motion, knows it is an infallible rule, that +whatsoever matter is to be removed upward, must have a force superior +to the weight to be lifted up, if its motion be required as swift as +the motion of the moving cause; if slower, proportionably less +strength will do; if swifter, then the moving cause, as men’s hands, +horses, or dead weight, then must the strength of the moving cause be +increased proportionably, or no motion can be produced. And the +experience of ages shows us this to be a most sure rule, allowing for +friction, which is larger, the more wheels or parts an engine +consisteth of; and, of consequence, the fewer parts or wheels an +engine consisteth of the easier it works; so that by barely looking +on a pump, if it has more parts or wheels than the common crank-work, +you may conclude it worse; if a chain-work or tub-work the same. So +that all that can be expected is, to make those go easier than they +are now made to go by ingenious workmen expert in making them. And if +you try how small a matter will move those engines when not loaded +with water, you will find the friction so small as not worth any +mending, could it be done, especially the tub-gin, whose friction +increases the least in being loaded of any; but the others are vastly +increased by the leathers of their suckers being forced broader, and +rubbing with much greater force against the barrel they work in, +according to the height the pipes are raised.</p> + +<p>And I hope, when it is considered how far this engine of mine differs +from the bare pretensions of ignorant or designing men, and that any +persons may see what my engine will perform before they contract for +it, there will be found no ground for the least suspicion in any +person concerned to employ them in mines; but, to the contrary, afford +us a generous encouragement in a business so conducive to the +increasing the mining trade, and thereby enrich themselves and the +nation, and increase the king’s revenue.</p> + +<p>I could heartily wish all miners, for their own as well as their +country’s interest, were good mechanics, and truly understood the +nature, use, and application of all kinds of engines; for, I am sure, +those that do will be my best friends, without expecting that horses, +or men, or any other strength, can or will do more than what nature +and the laws of motion has allowed them.</p> + +<p class="center"><img class="ill" src="images/ill53.gif" alt="illustration page 53" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_1.gif" alt="Thomas Savery I" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_2.gif" alt="Thomas Savery II" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_3.gif" alt="Thomas Savery III" /></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="center"><img src="images/figure_4.gif" alt="Thomas Savery IV" /></p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Miner's Friend, by Thomas Savery + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + +***** This file should be named 46879-h.htm or 46879-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/6/8/7/46879/ + +Produced by Steffen Haugk +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have +to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. + + +Title: The Miner's Friend + An Engine to Raise Water by Fire + +Author: Thomas Savery + +Release Date: September 17, 2014 [EBook #46879] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + + + + +Produced by Steffen Haugk + + + + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN THOMAS SAVERY, The inventor of the steam engine - see frontispiece.gif] + + +THE +MINER'S FRIEND; +OR, +~An Engine~ +TO +RAISE WATER BY FIRE, +DESCRIBED. +AND OF THE MANNER OF FIXING IT IN MINES; +WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEVERAL OTHER USES IT +IS APPLICABLE UNTO; AND AN +ANSWER TO THE OBJECTIONS MADE AGAINST IT. +BY +THOMAS SAVERY, Gent. + +Pigri est ingenii contentum esse his, quae ab aliis inventa sunt. + SENECA. + +LONDON: PRINETD FOR S. CROUCH, AT THE CORNER +OF POPE'S HEAD-ALLEY IN CORNHILL. 1702. + +Reprinted, 1827. + + + + +LONDON: +Printed by W. Clowes. +Stanford-street + + + + +TO THE KING. + + +SIR, +Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an experiment +before you at Hampton-court, of a small model of my engine described +in the following treatise, and at that time to show a seeming +satisfaction of the power and use of it; and having most graciously +enabled me, by your royal assent to a patent and act of parliament, to +pursue and perfect the same. By which your royal encouragement, it +being now fully completed, and put in practice in your dominions with +that repeated success and applause, that it is not to be doubted but +it will be of universal benefit and use to all your Majesty's +subjects. Of whom, your Majesty being the universal patron and father, +all arts and inventions that may promote their good and advantage, +seem to lay a just and natural claim to your Majesty's sacred +protection. + +It is upon this consideration I am encouraged, with a profound +respect, to throw this performance of mine, with the author, at your +Majesty's royal feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, that, as it +had birth in your Majesty's auspicious reign, you will vouchsafe to +perpetuate it to future ages by the sanction of your royal +approbation, which is the utmost ambition of, + + May it please your Majesty, + Your Majesty's + most humble, most loyal, + and most obedient Subject, + + THOMAS SAVERY. + + + + +TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY. + + +At the request of some of your members, at the weekly meeting, at +Gresham-college, June the 14th, 1699, I had the honour to work a small +model of my engine before you, and you were pleased to approve of it. +Since which I have met with great difficulties and expense, to +instruct handicraft artificers to form my engine according to my +design; but my workmen, after so much experience, are become such +masters of the thing, that they oblige themselves to deliver what +engines they make me exactly tight and fit for service, and as such I +dare warrant them to any body that has occasion for them. + +Your kindness in countenancing this invention in its first appearance +in the world, gives me hopes the usefulness of it will make it more +acceptable to your honourable Society, as they are the most proper +judges of what advantage it may be to mankind. And it would be +ungrateful in me not to make use of this opportunity to return you my +most humble and hearty thanks for the honour and favour you did me in +approving my design, and publishing it to the world,[1] which shall be +always acknowledged by + + Your most obliged + and most humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + +[1] Philosoph. Transact. Numb. 252. + + + + +TO THE +GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS +IN THE +MINES OF ENGLAND. + + +I am very sensible a great many among you do as yet look on my +invention of raising water by the impellent force of fire, a useless +sort of a project, that never can answer my designs or pretensions; +and that it is altogether impossible that such an engine as this can +be wrought under ground, and succeed in the raising of water, and +draining your mines, so as to deserve any encouragement from you. I am +not very fond of lying under the scandal of a bare projector; and, +therefore, present you here with a draught of my machine, and lay +before you the uses of it, and leave it to your consideration whether +it be worth your while to make use of it or no. I can easily give +grains of allowance for your suspicions, because I know very well what +miscarriages there have been by people ignorant of what they pretend +to. These I know have been so frequent, so fair and promising at +first, but so short of performing what they pretended to, that your +prudence and discretion will not now suffer you to believe any thing +without a demonstration, your appetites to new inventions of this +nature having been balked too often; yet, after all, I must beg you +not to condemn me, before you have read what I have to say for myself; +and let not the failures of others prejudice me, or be placed to my +account. I have often lamented the want of understanding the true +powers of nature, which misfortune has, of late, put some on making +such vast engines and machines, both troublesome and expensive, yet of +no manner of use, inasmuch as the old engines, used many ages past, +far exceeded them; and I fear, whoever, by the old causes of motion, +pretends to improvements within this last century, does betray his +knowledge and judgment; for more than an hundred years since, men and +horses would raise by engines, then made, as much water as they have +ever since done, or I believe ever will, or according to the law of +nature ever can do; and though my thoughts have been long employed +about water-works, I should never have pretended to any invention of +that kind, had I not happily found out this new, but yet a much +stronger and cheaper force or cause of motion, than any before made +use of. But finding this of rarefaction by fire, the consideration of +the difficulties the miners and colliers labour under by the frequent +disorders, cumbersomeness, and in general of water-engines, encouraged +me to invent engines to work by this new force; that though I was +obliged to encounter the oddest and almost insuperable difficulties, I +spared neither time, pains, nor money, till I had absolutely conquered +them. I hope this will, at least, encourage you to read over this +small treatise I now put into your hands, for the further and more +particular information of the nature and uses of this engine for +raising water by the force of fire; after which, I shall patiently +submit to any judgment you shall please to pass upon me or the +invention, and may have reason to believe you will not any longer +suffer your judgments to be imposed on by those, whose profit and +interest it may seem to be to condemn both right and wrong; I mean +such who make your common gins, and their friends and acquaintance +among you; though I am very sure the promotion of the use of this +engine is their true interest, as I very plainly prove thus:-- + +The cheaper water is drawn, the more is the miner encouraged to +adventure; the more the miner adventures, the more pits or shafts must +be sunk; the more shafts or pits are sunk, the more wood-work will be +necessarily employed in timbering them, or supporting the sides from +falling in where the earth is loose; besides windlasses and all other +utensils of wood used in mines, or the trades depending thereon must +be more, which, by increasing the carpenters' trade in general, will +make them sufficient amends for the loss of a small part of that +branch of their trade, called gin-making. As for pump-making, that +part of the trade will be much improved by my engine; for I must use +board and timber for pipes, and have considerable employment for +pump-makers and carpenters for timber used about my engine; but shall +never employ any other person in making pipes, or any other +carpenter's work I shall have to do, but the person who was before +employed in the work, or such as shall be recommended, as a person +employed in the mines of the country wheresoever I shall fix engines, +provided they will work as cheap, and fairly, and observe the orders +and directions given them; for my design is not, in the least, to +prejudice the artificers, or, indeed, any other sort of people by this +invention; but, on the contrary, is intended for the benefit and +advantage of mankind in general, especially the people of my own +nation; and wherein, you gentlemen concerned in mines, may, if you +please, reap the greatest profit. + +And although I do not question but the plan and draught of my engine +will be very well and readily understood with many gentlemen, by the +description here given; yet it will require a longer time in others to +employ their minds and thoughts more intensely about it, especially +such as have not been familiar and acquainted with things of this +kind; but should the engine, to the apprehension of some, seem +intricate and difficult to be worked, after all the description I have +given of it in this book, yet I can, and do assure them, that the +attending and working the engine is so far from being so, that it is +familiar and easy to be learned by those of the meanest capacity, in a +very little time; insomuch, that I have boys of thirteen or fourteen +years of age, who now attend and work it to perfection, and were +taught to do it in a few days; and I have known some learn to work the +engine in half an hour. We have a proverb, that interest never lies; +and I am assured that you gentlemen of the mines and collieries, when +you have once made this engine familiar in your works, and to +yourselves and servants; not only the profit, but abundance of other +advantages and conveniences which you will find to attend your works +in the use thereof, will create in you a favourable opinion of the +labours of + + Your real Friend and humble Servant, + THOMAS SAVERY. + + _London, +Sept. 22,_ 1701. + + + + +A DESCRIPTION +OF THE +DRAUGHT OF THE ENGINE, +FOR RAISING WATER BY FIRE. + + + _a_, _a_, The furnaces. + _b_, B, the two fire-places. + _c_, the funnel or chimney. + _d_, the small boiler. + _e_, the pipe and cock of it. + _f_, the screw that covers and confines its force. + _g_, a small cock, a pipe going within eight inches of its bottom. + _h_, A larger pipe going the same depth. + _i_, a clack on the top of the said pipe. + _k_, a pipe going from the box of the said clack or valve, into the +great boiler, about an inch into it. + _l_, the great boiler. + _m_, the screw with the regulator. + _n_, a small cock and pipe going half way down the great boiler. + _o_, O, steam-pipes, one end of each screw to the regulator, and the +other ends to the receivers. + _p_, P, the vessels called receivers. + _q_, q, the screws which bring on the pipes and clacks in the front +of the engine. + _r_, _r_, R, R, valves or clack of brass, with screws to open and +come at them upon occasion. + _s_, the force-pipe. + _t_, the sucking-pipe. + _v_, a square frame of wood, with holes round its bottom in the +water. + _x_, a cistern with a buoy-cock coming from the force-pipe. + _y_, a cock and pipe coming from the bottom of the said cistern. + _z_, the handle of the regulator. + + + + + +CHAPTER FIRST. +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF WORKING THE ENGINE. + + +The first thing is to fix the engine in a good double furnace, so +contrived that the flame of your fire may circulate round and +encompass your two boilers to the best advantage, as you do coppers +for brewing. Before you make any fire, unscrew _g_ and _n_, being the +two small gauge-pipes and cocks belonging to the two boilers, and at +the holes, fill _l_, the great boiler, two-thirds full of water, and +_d_, the small boiler, quite full; then screw in the said pipes again +as fast and light as possible; then light the fire at _b_. When the +water in _l_ boils, the handle of the regulator, marked _z_, must be +thrust from you as far as it will go, which makes all the steam rising +from the water in _l_ pass with irresistible force through _o_ into +_p_, pushing out all the air before it, through the clack, _r_, making +a noise as it goes; and when all is gone out, the bottom of the +vessel, _p_, will be very hot; then pull the handle of the regulator +to you, by which means you stop _o_, and force your steam through _o_ +into the _p_, until that vessel has discharged its air through the +clack, _r_, up the force-pipe. In the mean time, by the steam's +condensing in the vessel _p_, a vacuum or emptiness is created, so +that the water must, and will, necessarily, raise up, through _t_, the +sucking-pipe, lifting up the clack, _r_, and filling the vessel, _p_. + +In the mean time, the vessel, _p_, being emptied of its air, turn the +handle of the regulator from you again, and the force is upon the +surface of the water in _p_, which surface being only heated by the +steam, it does not condense it, but the steam gravitates or presses +with an elastic quality like air; still increasing its elasticity or +spring, till it counterpoises, or rather exceeds the weight of the +water ascending in _s_, the forcing-pipe, out of which, the water in +_p_ will be immediately discharged when once gotten to the top, which +takes up some time to recover that power; which having once got, and +being in work, it is easy for any one that never saw the engine, after +half an hour's experience, to keep a constant stream running out the +full bore of the pipe, _s_; for, on the outside of the vessel, _p_, +you may see how the water goes out, as well as if the vessel were +transparent; for, as far as the steam continues within the vessel, so +far is the vessel dry without, and so very hot, as scarce to endure +the least touch of the hand; but as far as the water is, the said +vessel will be cold and wet, where any water has fallen on it; which +cold and moisture vanishes as fast as the steam, in its descent, takes +place of the water; but if you force all the water out, the steam, or +a small part thereof, going through _r_, will rattle the clack, so as +to give sufficient notice to pall the handle of the regulator to you, +which, at the same time, begins to force out the water from _p_, +without the least alteration of the stream; only, sometimes, the +stream of water will be somewhat stronger than before, if you pull the +handle of the regulator before any considerable quantity of steam be +gone up the clack, _r_; but it is much better to let none of the steam +go off, for that is but losing so much strength, and is easily +prevented, by polling the regulator some little time before the vessel +forcing is quite emptied. This being done, immediately turn the cock +or pipe of the cistern, _x_, on _p_, so that the water proceeding from +_x_, through _y_, which is never open but when turned on _p_, or _P_; +but when between them, is tight and stanch; I say, the water, falling +on _p_, causes, by its coolness, the steam, which had such great force +just before to its elastic power, to condense, and become a vacuum or +empty apace, so that the vessel, _p_, is, by the external pressure of +the atmosphere, or what is vulgarly called suction, immediately +refilled, while _p_ is emptying; which being done, you push the handle +of the regulator from you, and throw the force on _p_, pulling the +condensing pipe over _p_, causing the steam in that vessel to +condense, so that it fills, while the other empties. The labour of +turning these two parts of the engine, viz. the regulator and +water-cock, and attending the fire, being no more than what a boy's +strength can perform for a day together, and is as easily learned as +their driving of a horse in a tub-gin; yet, after all, I would have +men, and those, too, the most apprehensive, employed in working of the +engine, supposing them more careful than boys. The difference of this +charge is not to be mentioned or accounted of, when we consider the +vast profit which those who use the engine will reap by it. + +The ingenious reader will, probably, here object, that the steam being +the cause of this motion and force, and that steam is but water +rarefied, the boiler, _l_, must in some certain time be emptied, so as +the work of the engine must stop to replenish the boiler, or endanger +the burning out or melting the bottom of the boiler. + +To answer which, please to observe the use of the small boiler, _d_, +when it is thought fit by the person tending the engine to replenish +the great boiler, which requires an hour and a half, or two hours' +time to the sinking one foot of water; then, I say, by turning the +cock of the small boiler, _e_, you cut off all communication between +_s_, the great force-pipe, and _d_, the small boiler, by which means +_d_ grows immediately hot, by throwing a little fire into _b_, and the +water of which boils, and in a very little time it gains more strength +than the great boiler; for the force of the great boiler being +perpetually spending and going out, and the other winding up, or +increasing, it is not long before the force in _d_ exceeds that in +_l_, so that the water in _d_ being depressed in _d_ by its own steam +or vapour, must necessarily rise through the pipe, _h_, opening the +clack, _i_, and so go through the pipe, _k_, into _l_, running till +the surface of the water in _d_ is equal to the bottom of the pit, +_h_; then steam and water going together, will, by a noise in the +clack, _i_, give sufficient assurance that _d_ has discharged and +emptied itself into _l_, to within eight inches of the bottom; and +inasmuch as, from the top of _d_ to the bottom of its pipe, _h_, is +contained about as much water as will replenish _l_, one foot, so you +may be certain _l_ is replenished one foot of course; then you open +the cock, _i_, and refill _d_ immediately; so that here is a constant +motion without fear or danger of disorder, or decay, if you would, at +any time, know if the great boiler, _l_, be more than half exhausted, +turn the small cock, _n_, whose pipe will deliver water, if the water +be above the level of its bottom, which is half way down the boiler; +if not, it will deliver steam. So, likewise, will _g_ show you if you +have more or less than eight inches of water in _d_, by which means +nothing but a stupid and wilful neglect, or mischievous design, +carried on for some hours, can any ways hurt the engine; and if a +master is suspicious of the design of a servant to do mischief, it is +easily discovered by those gauge-pipes; for if he come when the engine +is at work, and find the surface, _c_, of the water in _l_, below the +bottom of the gauge-pipe, _n_, or the water in _d_ below the bottom of +_g_, such a servant deserves correction, though three hours after +that, the working on would not damage or exhaust the boilers; as that, +in a word, the clacks being in all water-works always found the better +the longer they are used, and all the moving parts of our engine being +of like nature, the furnace being made of Stourbridge, or Windsor +brick, or fire-stone, I do not see it possible for the engine to decay +in many years; for the clacks, boxes, and mitre-pipe, regulator, and +cocks, are all of brass; and the vessels made of the best hammered +copper, of sufficient thickness to sustain the force of the working +the engine. In short, the engine is so naturally adapted to perform +what is required, that even those of the most ordinary and meanest +capacity may work it for some years without any injury, if not hired +or employed by some base person on purpose to destroy it; for after +the engine is once fixed, and at work, I may modestly affirm that the +adventurer, or supervisor of the mine, will be freed from that +perpetual charge, expense, and trouble of repairs, which all other +engines ever yet employed in mines for the raising of water, are +continually liable unto. + + + + +CHAPTER SECOND. +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + +* * * * * + +OF THE USES THAT THIS ENGINE +MAY BE APPLIED UNTO. + + +It may be supposed that there are few people among us so ignorant, but +must necessarily know of what value the falls of water are in most +places, as being applicable to mills, which are made after various +kinds and forms, according to the different genius and abilities of +the millwright, for mill-work being in a manner infinitely +diversified; and had I leisure to comment thereon, and give you an +account, not only of the vast variety that I have seen and heard of, +but (when encouraged) what may yet be brought to work by a steady +stream, and the rotation or circular motion of a water-wheel, it would +swell these papers to a much larger volume than was at first designed, +and frustrate my intended brevity. I only just hint this to show what +use this engine may be put to in working of mills, especially where +coals are cheap. + +I have only this to urge, that water, in its fall from any determinate +height, has simply a force answerable and equal to the force that +raises it. So that an engine which will raise as much water as two +horses working together at one time in such a work can do, and for +which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the +same, then, I say, such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or +twelve horses; and whereas this engine may be made large enough to do +the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses +to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work, it will be +improper to stint or confine its uses and operation in respect of +water-mills. + +2. It may be of great use for palaces, for the nobility's or +gentlemen's houses; for, by a cistern on the top of a house, yoy may, +with a great deal of ease and little charge, throw what quantity of +water you have occasion for to the top of any house; which water, in +its fall, makes you what sorts of fountains you please, and supplies +any room in the house, and it is of excellent use in case of fire, of +which more hereafter. + +3. Nothing can be more fit for serving cities and towns with water, +except a crank-work by the force of a river. In the composing such +sort of engines, I think no person hath excelled the ingenious Mr. +George Sorocold; but where they are forced to use horses, or any other +strength, I believe no ingenious person will deny this engine to have +the preference in all respects, being of more universal use than any +yet discovered or invented. + +4. As for draining fens, marshes, &c. I suppose I need say no more +than this, that that force which will raise great quantities of water +a height of above eighty feet, must necessarily deliver a much greater +quantity at a lesser height; and that it is much cheaper, and every +way easier, especially where coals are water-borne, to continue the +discharge of any quantities of water by our engine, than it can be +done by any horse-engines whatsoever. + +5. I believe it may be made very useful to ships, but I dare not +meddle with that matter, and leave it to the judgment of those who are +the best judges of maritime affairs. + +6. For draining of mines and coal-pits the use of the engine will +sufficiently recommend itself in raising water so easy and cheap; and +I do not doubt, but that, in a few years, it will be a means of making +our mining trade, which is no small part of the wealth of this +kingdom, double, if not treble to what it now is. And if such vast +quantities of lead, tin, and coals, are now yearly exported, under the +difficulties of such an immense charge and pains as the miners, &c. +are now at to discharge their water, how much more may be hereafter +exported, when the charge will be very much lessened by the use of +this engine every way fitted for the use of mines? For the far greater +part of our richest mines and coal-pits are liable to two grand +inconveniences, and thereby rendered useless, viz. the irruption and +excess of subterraneous waters, as not being worth the expense of +draining them by the great charge of horses, or hand labour. Or, +secondly, fatal damps, by which many are struck blind, lame, or dead, +in these subterraneous cavities, if the mine is wanting of a due +circulation of air. Now, both these inconveniencies are naturally +remedied by the work of this engine, of raising water by the impellant +force of fire. + +For the water, be the mine ever so deep, each engine working it sixty, +seventy, or eighty feet high, by applying or setting the engines one +over another, as shall be showed at large hereafter in the following +pages, you may, by a sufficient number of engines, keep the bottom of +any mine dry; and when once you know how large your feeder or spring +is, it is very easy to know what sized engine, or what number of +engines will do your business. + +The coals used in this engine is of as little value as the coals +commonly burned on the mouths of the coal-pits are; for an engine of a +three-inch bore, or thereabout, working the water up sixty feet high, +requires a fire-place of not above twenty inches deep, and about +fourteen or fifteen inches wide, which will occasion so small a +consumption, that in a coal-pit it is of no account, as we have +experienced. And in all parts of England, where there are mines, coals +are so cheap, that the charge of them is not to be mentioned, when we +consider the vast quantity of water raised by the inconsiderable value +of the coals used and burnt in so small a furnace. What the quantity +of coals used for one engine in a year is cannot easily be +ascertained, because of the different nature of the several sorts of +coals. + +As for the cure of damps by this engine, the air perpetually crowding +into the ash-hole and fire-place, as it is natural for it to do, and +with a most impetuous force discharged with the smoke at the top of +the chimney, the contiguous air is successively following it; so that +not only all steams or vapours whatsoever, that may or can arise, must +naturally force its way through the fire, and so be discharged at the +top with the smoke, but this motion of the fire will occasion the +fresh air to descend from above down all the pits, and every where +else in the mine, but down the chimney; provided you have a heading +drift, or passage from all the shafts or pits in the work, to that +place where the engine stands; whether the mouth of the said pit and +chimney be lower or higher than the mouths of any of the rest of the +pits or shafts in the same work it matters not, for here will be a +perpetual circulation of the air, and with that swiftness as is hardly +to be believed. This I have tried and know to be true, so leave the +ingenious miner to his own judgment, whether, when all the air is in a +swift motion, that any stagnation of air (which has always been +adjudged the cause of damps) can happen in any pit. + + + + +CHAPTER THIRD. +THE MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND +GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER +IN GENERAL. + +* * * * * + +THE +MANNER OF FIXING THE ENGINE +FOR WATER-MILLS, PALACES, AND GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, AND DRAINING FENS, +AND SUPPLYING HOUSES WITH WATER IN GENERAL. + + +1. For mills. The engine must be made and proportioned according to +the quantity of water required to drive the mill you would make use +of. Now suppose you would make a mill on a plain place, where you will +have only a pond, and a small spring of water no bigger than a quill; +then you must build your mill-house thirty-six feet high, in which you +may make what motions, and what sort of mills you please. By the side +of which house without, may be placed your water-wheel of thirty-two, +thirty-three, or thirty-four feet diameter. For the height of either +house or wheel I would confine no person too exactly, but I guess that +a convenient height, and no more than what is common enough. Under the +wheel I would have a pond, and on the top of the house a cistern of +wood lined with lead. The engine may be fixed in any corner of the +mill-house, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two feet, or more, from the +level of the pond: there two boilers must be fixed, as shown you in +the draught for fixing the engine; and round each of them it is +convenient to have a hoop of iron, with straps coming from them to +rest on the brick-work, to support and strengthen them. Your clacks +and pipes in the front being supported by wood, and the vessels +standing on pedestals of wood, it is convenient that the flue, or +chimney, be so contrived as to draw very sharp, and the flue to +circulate round both the boilers, so that you may lose no part of your +strength. + +2. For palaces, or the nobility's or gentlemen's houses, you may fix +the engine in any remote or out-room, whose floor is not above twenty +feet from the level of your water, and you may continue your +force-pipe to the top of your house, with a convenient cistern to hold +your water; into which lay the pipes which may convey the water as you +want it, either for pleasure or common occasions. This way of cisterns +on the top of your houses or palaces would be of singular use in case +of fire, as is said before; for in every staircase a pipe may go down +the corner, or behind the wainscot, so as to be no blemish even to the +finest of staircases. At every floor there may be a turn-cock with a +screw. At the utmost end have likewise a small leather pipe, kept well +oiled in a cupboard, or cavity in your wall, which may not be seen, +but on the opening some part of the wainscot, or such other +contrivance as the ingenious builder shall think fit to make use of. +This pipe of leather must be long enough to reach from the +landing-place, or stair-head, in all rooms depending thereon. One end +of this pipe has a screw to fit the cock in the other pipe, and at the +other end a pipe like the nose of a pair of bellows; so that wherever, +though under a bed, or the remotest part of any room in the house, the +fire breaks out, or is discovered, any servant having screwed the pipe +to the cock, stops the nozle with his thumb till he comes to the place +where the fire is, when, taking away his thumb, he, by directing the +nozle to the fire, immediately extinguishes it, which being liable to +be instantly used, I think a house, palace, &c. that has this +invention, may be said to be morally out of danger of being destroyed, +or so far injured as Whitehall and Kensington have been within a few +years. This command of water must be allowed to be of vast advantage +to any house whatsoever. Where brewing, washing, &c. is used, the +copper standing high may be filled as easy as if it stood low, by +which means the hot liquor may be contrived to go to all your coolers, +and other vessels, either by a syphon, stop-cock, &c. without the +hand-labour of pumping or bailing with buckets. But more conveniencies +than we can at present foresee will be discovered in the use of this +engine for palaces, houses, &c. + +3. For fens, and the like, it is convenient that these engines be made +very large; for at all small heights a small quantity of fire will +deliver prodigious quantities of water. For suppose we force but +thirty feet, and suck twenty feet, if the boiler does but fill the +vessels, called receivers, with steam strong enough to counterpoise or +exceed the force of the atmosphere, or spring of the common air, it +will discharge them at so small a height as thirty feet force in a +very little time; and the steam having very little force or spring is +immediately condensed, so that it will presently suck full in one of +the vessels while the other is discharged. Now, inasmuch as the fire +being more or less adds nothing to the suction. I think such lifts, +being seldom above thirty-six feet, or under six feet, all the +directions further needful for fixing the engine for this use is, in +all lifts under twenty-four feet, to place your engine so as a little +above your force-clacks may be the place of the delivery of your water +into a convenient trough or lander, to be carried off at the most +proper place for its discharge. If it be any height above twenty-four +feet, you have nothing to do but to continue the length of your +force-pipe to the height required. It ought to have a shed or covering +round it, and to be placed at the lowest place of your fen or bog, as +other engines designed for that purpose commonly are. + +As for fixing the engine in ships, when they may be thought probably +useful, I question not but we may find conveniency enough for fixing +them. + +In mines and coal-pits the manner of fixing the engines is this; your +pit being sunk, and a sump, or proper well, or bottom cistern, made to +receive the water coming from the several feeders or springs. +Supposing an engine, carrying three and a quarter inch bore, is to be +fixed to deliver water about seventy feet high, constant running a +full bore; in such case you make a small room in your shaft or pit, +which, together with your shaft or pit, is nine feet square every way. +As for example, suppose your shaft six feet by four, take three feet +out of one side, and five out of another perpendicular nine feet, +making a small floor or platform of boards over that part of the shaft +which goes down to your sump or bottom cistern, so you have a complete +room big enough for your engine, where ten or twelve people may stand +on occasion. This floor may be about eighteen, nineteen, or twenty +feet from the water, at the lowest you ever will draw the water into +the sump or bottom cistern. If your ground be loose, it is convenient +to line this room with brick; if rock, it may support itself. But in +this the miner's judgment must direct him. That the engine will stand +best in the side of the pit where most is dug away, you may see in the +second figure of the engine, being fixed in a mine. Your pipes, &c. +must be fixed with cramps of iron, wood, or such materials as are +convenient, to the side of the pit or shaft, so as to make it stand as +firm as the very shaft itself. Your furnace must be so contrived, that +your flame take a turn or two round each of the boilers, which any +brick-layer used to furnaces can do; it being performed by running a +row of bricks round them both like a screw or worm, which being +contiguous to the wall of the furnaces and the boilers, makes it, as +it were, a worm-funnel round them both; from whence you may continue +your chimney to the top of your work, which you fasten to the sides of +your shafts in the corners as you please, either with iron or wood, or +both, according to the nature of the ground. And wherever you make a +sudden bend or nook near a right angle in the chimney, have a loose +brick or stone to take out the soot, if any should settle in such +place, which in long working it may do. + + + + +SEVERAL OBJECTIONS +AGAINST THE +WORKING THIS ENGINE ANSWERED, +IN +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + + + +A DIALOGUE +BETWEEN A MINER AND THE AUTHOR. + + +_Miner_. Sir, having been some time concerned in the engines now used +for drawing water out of our mines, and hearing so much talk of this +wonderful invention of yours, of raising water by fire, I was very +desirous to enter into some discourse with you concerning the nature, +use, and application of your engine, so strangely differing from all +other engines ever yet invented for our works, and which, you +positively affirm, will every way tend so much to our advantage in the +use of them; and I do not doubt of meeting with that plainness, +freedom, and good humour, that your discourse is generally accompanied +with. And with the same freedom resolve me in such questions as the +general sense of us miners may naturally propose to object against the +use of your engine, especially such of us as are yet ignorant of its +use and operation, who are more capable to judge of fact, than of the +nature and power of that force which raises your water. + +_Author_. Sir, I am extremely obliged to you for your freedom, and +shall readily embrace all opportunities to inform and explain to you +the true use and nature of my engine; and, therefore, desire you, with +all imaginable freedom, to proceed and ask what questions you please, +either as to your own thoughts, as well as what has been suggested to +you by others. And you may be assured of a plain and candid answer to +all your objections. + +_Miner_. Then, sir, which way will you go to work with your engine to +clear an old work full of water? + +_Author_. Why, sir, to deal plainly with you, if your shafts are, or +may be cut straight, your tub-engines, or chain pumps, may draw forth +the water. And the charge, in that respect, is not to be accounted +for, because no mine would be thrown up or neglected but on account of +the feeders or springs, which being certain, and constantly to be +carried off winter and summer, the prospect of being likely to +succeed, makes your mine worth working or emptying within twenty feet +of the bottom, if ever they were worth sinking, though you work or +drain by the common way of tubs or chain-pumps. And could the constant +charge of those engines be afforded, numbers of them will empty and +keep under any work; but it is the constant charge of carrying off +what the springs bring in is the chief thing to be considered in the +business of mines, which constant charge is what we lessen very much +by this engine of mine. + +_Miner_. What signifies your engine then, sir, if it be not capable of +sinking or forking an old mine? + +_Author_. Hold, my good friend, a little patience; I have dealt +plainly and impartially with you about the use of your old engines: +and for my engine, it will clear an old work, if full of water, as +readily as your tub-gins or chain-pumps, provided the shafts are good. +The method I propose to clear an old mine, if sixty feet deep, and +full of water, the feeders not above two-inch bore, which is done at a +very small charge after this manner; _viz_. I fix my engine on the top +of the mine, and only suck and deliver a three and a quarter inch +bore; as soon as we have sunk the water as far as our suction will go, +which will be some twenty-two, twenty-four, or twenty-six feet deep +below the surface, there I make a room fit to receive another engine, +which I fix with his force-pipe to go up to the top of the pit; and +when I have sunk about twenty-four or twenty-six feet more, then I fix +a smaller engine of two inches bore, which, sucking twenty, and +forcing forty, does your work and keeps all safe; or let your small +engine be kept at work, while you remove the larger engine from the +top to the middle station, and then you will have occasion for no more +than two engines, the greatest of which may be removed as soon as the +smaller is fixed in the lowest or proper station. And that you may be +convinced of my impartiality, it is my opinion, that in gaining an old +work, or sinking a new one, you use your old engines of tub or +chain-pumps: this engine of mine being most proper, when you are come +fairly to the bottom either of the ore or coal; for then, if you have +but one lift, one station or engine-room will be sufficient. And by +having two sumps or bottom cisterns, your water may, in some measure, +settle in one of them in its passage to the other. So that the miners +working tolerably clean, and suffering as little dead or loose coal or +ore as is possible to mix with the water, you may have the water to +draw only a little discoloured; for you know, as well as I, that +generally the water coming from mines or coal-pits, while they work by +the gins now in use, is almost clear water. + +_Miner_. Sir, I thank you for your candour in relation to the clearing +of an old work. But supposing that our water arises thick and muddy, +which you know will sometimes happen, what shall we do with your +engine then? + +_Author_. What you say, sir, I know to be very true, that sometimes +you have thick, muddy gravel and nasty water. To prevent which from +coming into, or offending our pipes, we have a frame of board made +full of holes round about the bottom of our pipe that receives the +water, for sluge or fine dirt it will do my engine no injury. Indeed, +the clearer our water is in our boilers the better it is for our work; +but for our receivers and their clacks you may clear them as you work +it from stones, coal, ore, or any other annoyance, though hung in the +very clack; for by emptying of one or both the receivers of their +water, you cause the motion, either of suction or force, immediately +to be so strong, as to clear and blow out all before it to the top of +the pit; insomuch, that I have found filings of copper, large bits of +metal, considerable quantities of coal and stone, delivered and thrown +up with water out of my engine above sixty feet high. However, clear +water is preferable before the dirty water in the work of mine engine. + +_Miner_. But, dear sir, if sixty, seventy, or eighty feet be the +determinate height for raising of water by your engine, how shall we +use your engine in a mine or pit that requires water to be raised +three times eighty feet, as you know some of our works do. + +_Author_. I heartily thank you, sir, for this last proposal, because I +have now an opportunity to acquaint you, that the force used in my +engine is in a manner infinite and unlimited, and will raise your +water five hundred or one thousand feet high, were any pit so deep; +and that you could find us a way to procure strength enough to support +such an immense weight, as a pillar of water a thousand feet high must +certainly produce. However, to give you an answer, I must entreat you +to give my engine as kind entertainment and fair quarter as you do to +your engines now in use: for, I am sure, you are not ignorant of a +custom used in very deep mines, (in several parts of England,) of +raising their water by several lifts, from cistern to cistern, to a +very great height, although some of their lifts may not be above +twelve, sixteen, or twenty feet a lift at the most. And suppose that +your engine now in use at twenty feet the lift, and my engine at +sixty, seventy, or eighty feet, for at any of these lifts we raise a +full bore of water with much ease, then one lift of my engine at sixty +feet answers to three lifts of your engines at twenty feet, and also +to four of your lifts at eighty feet, &c., which you may please to +take for a sufficient answer to your last objection. I have known, in +Cornwall, a work with three lifts, of about eighteen feet each lift, +and carrying a three and a quarter inch bore, that cost forty-two +shillings per diem, reckoning twenty-four hours the day, for labour, +besides wear and tear of engines; each pump having four men working +eight hours, at fourteenpence a man, and the men obliged to rest at +least one-third part of that time. + +_Miner_. You have, sir, hitherto given me undeniable answers to my +former objections, for which I thank you; but I fancy I shall puzzle +you, when I ask you how you will manage your engine to draw up our +water, where the shafts are not direct, but turn and wind to and fro? + +_Author_. Sir, this last question is so far from being any hardship +put upon my engine, that no engine ever yet invented was so naturally +adapted to work in these crooked shafts as mine is; for let the +windings or turnings of the shafts be what they will, the +perpendicular weight of water is all that my engine has to account +for, and is the same as if it made the figure of a distiller's worm, +and went through the straightest pipe imaginable, except a little +inconsiderable friction of the water against the side of the pipe that +is crooked, more than is in the straight pipe, which is so small a +matter, that a very nice judge would hardly be able to distinguish +whether the crooked or straight pipe carried off most water in the +working. For the flue that carries the smoke, experience sufficiently +instructs you, that you may turn and wind it any way you please, and +that such windings in their drawing most air do rather improve than +prejudice your flue, as any one experienced in building of furnaces +can inform you. + +_Miner_. Well, sir, I find that our crooked shafts will not any way +incommode your engine: but what think you of accommodating your engine +to the service of the lead mines, whose shafts are many times so +narrow, that it will be very difficult to get your engine down? + +_Author_. I perceive, sir, you are yet much a stranger to the nature +of my engine, which is so furnished with brass screws, and as strong +as the very metal itself, that you may take it to pieces, and with +ease put it together again fit to work in a few hours' time; and so +contrived, that where a man can well go down, there I can put down my +engine in several pieces and fix them below, for the greatest boiler +belonging to my engine is between twenty-four and thirty inches +diameter, and may, if occasion require, be made yet much narrower and +deeper. And that if it be difficult to bring the shaft of the mine to +fit my engine, I can, with much ease, make my engine to fit the shaft +of any mine. + +_Miner_. But will not these brass valves that you speak of in your +engine, speedily wear out and stop your work? + +_Author_. No: they cannot fail me; because experience shows us, that +brass valves improve, rather than grow worse, by twenty or thirty +years use in any force-work, where constantly worked, and where they +rise and fall twenty times oftener than my valves will do. + +_Miner_. But what think you, sir, if you should meet with such +corrosive water in some of our mines, as will, in a little time, eat +through your copper vessels. + +_Author_. Truly, sir, this question does a little startle me, because +I never expected to meet any water of such a corrosive quality in any +mine: and could I find out a mine, whose water abounds with such acid +particles, as to destroy or injure the copper vessels of my engine, I +would drain that mine for nothing but the water I shall take up; +because the water would be more valuable than any ore (I believe) in +England. And were there even a tenth part of aquafortis to nine-tenths +of common water, which is impossible to suppose it should be, I say, +such a water could have no effect on the coppers, were that water to +lodge some time in the copper vessels, much less in passing through +them with that celerity and rapid motion that always accompanies it. + +_Miner_. But, sir, will not such a continual fire, as must be kept +under your boilers, burn them out in two or three months' time, and +spoil the work of your engine? + +_Author_. I can assure you they will not decay in some years, unless +some fellow be hired or employed on purpose to do it. And should any +villain be employed to burn, break, or destroy any of the engines now +used in your works for raising of water, we are then on the same level +with you in that point. But I will give you one reason why my engines +will not easily decay, and I am sure that will go further with you +than all the affirmation I can make. For, first of all, although a +white heat will melt copper, and a red heat, and sudden cooling it +again, will scale the copper, yet such a heat as is possible for it to +have or suffer while water is in the boiler can have no ill effect, or +cause any alteration in our copper. A friend of mine has coppers used +in sugar boiling of twenty years' standing. They may be a small matter +worn with cleaning on the inside, whereas on the outside there does +not appear the least visible decay: for as soon as the fire has thrown +a thin coat of soot on the outside of the boiler, the flame has no +other effect on it than to cause the water in it to boil. + +_Miner_. But we have often combustible vapours in our mines, which +taking fire from the candles used there, do, by a sudden explosion, +destroy both the mine and the miner; and therefore I am afraid that +the fire used in your engine will be very dangerous, and apt to kindle +those combustibles more than our candles. + +_Author_. To answer this objection, I will desire leave to give you my +notion of those combustibles, which, in short, is this: that when your +miners come into a close place, where there is no circulation of air +to carry off the effluvia, or atoms constantly rising like fine dust +in a powder-mill, they by knocking and working do increase to be very +numerous, like to those loose particles in a powder-mill. But it is +the work of some time for those vapours to come to perfection; for I +have heard several experienced miners say, that it is common to avoid +the danger of those vapours, by retiring as soon as they see the flame +of their candles burn longer than ordinary, which may be, discerned +sometimes long before the air is thick enough of this combustible +matter to take fire at once, and, like gunpowder, to destroy all. I +did hear one say, that from an inch and a half, once the flame of his +candle did gradually increase to two feet long, and yet he escaped. +Which makes it very plain, that stagnation of air is the sole cause of +this inconvenience in mines, which may be totally prevented by a pipe +going from the ash-pit of our furnace to any part of the mine liable +to stagnation. For the air will press with great violence through the +pipe into the fire, before the combustible matter can be ready to do +any hurt, and passing through the fire, make way for fresh air to +descend in the room of it. So that our fire, instead of blowing up of +your works, is the best means that can be used to prevent so fatal an +accident; and will likewise carry off all unwholesome vapours, damps, +or steams, which may proceed from corruption of air, by stagnations or +vapours arising from any poisonous earth or mineral. + +_Miner_. This notion of yours carries reason and demonstration along +with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But, sir, is not your price too +great for these engines of yours? + +_Author_. By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I am sure to +have you a friend to me and my engine for ever. For I must tell you, +that I would never have sent my engine into the world, if it would not +raise your water with more ease and conveniency to you and your +servants, and also much cheaper than any other engine ever used in +your works, without which I could never propose any advantage to +myself by it. And to convince you of the truth of my assertion, I dare +undertake the engine shall raise you as much water for eightpence, as +will cost you a shilling to raise the like with your old engines in +coal-pits. By this one article the miner will save one-third part of +his former charge, which is thirty-three pounds six shillings and +eightpence saved out of every hundred pounds. A brave estate gained in +one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight +thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of +water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. +I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such +conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my +engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for +drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be +preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents +your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest +to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable +advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from +the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful +and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine +which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on +it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that +perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a +little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that +certainty and exactness they now do. And for working the engine any +person may have his servant taught it, it being to be learnt in a very +short time by one of an ordinary capacity. + +_Miner_. But there are people who pretend to do great things in the +improvement of engines to work by hand or horses, the hope and +expectation of which has hindered some of us in our work and tired +others, so as to make them out of love with all engines, and almost +with the trade of mining. And though I wish the contrary, I fear this +may prove some hinderance to the promoting your interest. + +_Author_. True, sir, I own that time out of mind there have been +mountebanks and impostors in all faculties who pretend to great +things, but do perform nothing effectually. And it would be hard if +that should be drawn into consequence, that because some are knaves, +therefore none are honest. I know the notions of the perpetual motion, +or self-moving engine, and many such like whims are pretended to by +designing men, and believed by ignorant ones: but the judicious man, +who considers the laws of motion, knows it is an infallible rule, that +whatsoever matter is to be removed upward, must have a force superior +to the weight to be lifted up, if its motion be required as swift as +the motion of the moving cause; if slower, proportionably less +strength will do; if swifter, then the moving cause, as men's hands, +horses, or dead weight, then must the strength of the moving cause be +increased proportionably, or no motion can be produced. And the +experience of ages shows us this to be a most sure rule, allowing for +friction, which is larger, the more wheels or parts an engine +consisteth of; and, of consequence, the fewer parts or wheels an +engine consisteth of the easier it works; so that by barely looking +on a pump, if it has more parts or wheels than the common crank-work, +you may conclude it worse; if a chain-work or tub-work the same. So +that all that can be expected is, to make those go easier than they +are now made to go by ingenious workmen expert in making them. And if +you try how small a matter will move those engines when not loaded +with water, you will find the friction so small as not worth any +mending, could it be done, especially the tub-gin, whose friction +increases the least in being loaded of any; but the others are vastly +increased by the leathers of their suckers being forced broader, and +rubbing with much greater force against the barrel they work in, +according to the height the pipes are raised. + +And I hope, when it is considered how far this engine of mine differs +from the bare pretensions of ignorant or designing men, and that any +persons may see what my engine will perform before they contract for +it, there will be found no ground for the least suspicion in any +person concerned to employ them in mines; but, to the contrary, afford +us a generous encouragement in a business so conducive to the +increasing the mining trade, and thereby enrich themselves and the +nation, and increase the king's revenue. + +I could heartily wish all miners, for their own as well as their +country's interest, were good mechanics, and truly understood the +nature, use, and application of all kinds of engines; for, I am sure, +those that do will be my best friends, without expecting that horses, +or men, or any other strength, can or will do more than what nature +and the laws of motion has allowed them. + + + + +[Illustration: Figure I - see figure_1.gif] +[Illustration: Figure II - see figure_2.gif] +[Illustration: Figure III - see figure_3.gif] +[Illustration: Figure IV - see figure_4.gif] + + + + +Transcriber's note: + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Miner's Friend, by Thomas Savery + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MINER'S FRIEND *** + +***** This file should be named 46879.txt or 46879.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/6/8/7/46879/ + +Produced by Steffen Haugk +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will +be renamed. + +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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