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l jaws are still at them. Marquis of Worcester's water-elevator. The Marquis of Worcester's water commanding engine, as he called it, was patented to him in 1633, and was exhibited in action at his works at Vauxhall, London. (See an elaborate but too partial digest of authorities by Dircks in his Memoir of the Marquis, Lon of steam upon water, as we have had occasion to observe, in the manner contrived by Baptista Porta, 1600, Solomon De Caus (?), 1620, and the Marquis of Worcester, 1633, differs in no essential respect from one of the devices exhibited in the Pneumatics of Hero, 150 B. C. This was substantially as follows: A light being placed upo libation upon the altar. Steamer for paper stock. The idea of Hero was revived by Baptista Porta in 1600; De Caus (?), in 1620; the Marquis of Worcester in 1633; Savery, in 1698. See steam-engine. Steamer. Steam-gage. （Steam.) An attachment to a boiler to indicate the pressure of steam. a b c d e, in Fig. 56