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Valve-gears for steam-engines

Peabody, Cecil Hobart, 1855-1934 · 1892 · New York, J. Wiley · 66 pictures

An 1892 engineering textbook by Cecil Hobart Peabody, published in New York by John Wiley for mechanical engineering students and steam-engine designers. Numbered plates pair line-engraved valve diagrams — nested circles, arcs, radiating construction lines and lettered points — with sectioned mechanical drawings of valves and shafts, offering thin-line geometric figures and hatched cutaways usable as technical ornament or diagram templates.

Steam-engines

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