Assertion: steam engine's cylinder | /r/CapableOf | obtain complete vacuum
Facets:
value: from boiling water
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Realising the incompleteness of the vacuum produced by this means and on moving to England in 1680, Papin devised a version of the same cylinder that obtained a more complete vacuum from boiling water and then allowing the steam to condense; in this way he was able to raise weights by attaching the end of the piston to a rope passing over a pulley.