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Scientific American, Vol. 9, No. 42 (1854) (1854)

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and takes up 491°, and then gine is resolved by the quantity of air at at- pump to be of greater capacity than the main tion that requires only a very few figures in _ cylinder to do this. mospheric pressure, heated to a certain tem- passes into the main cylinder: thisis simply the most common… … points of the stroke—is labor lost in diseussion, while air at 491° exerts one of only 15 lbs. inferior capacity for heat. Thus while the ca- with that of water—it being 815 times lighter pacity of water for heat is 1:0000; air is only The steam boiler is a reservoir of force, not for such…

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