Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 181
to the other is such that the inspirator requires no adjustment for changes in steam-pressure or water-supply, the waste-valve being kept closed while the instrument is in operation, except at the time ofstarting. The sectional view of the stationary inspirator, Fig. 2428, will serve to explain the…
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