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 536
p; Hamlin Reed, rep-resented in Fig. 3326, has its tonguesecured by one iron rivet if the reedbe small. Tubes.—The first requisite of atube, Fig. 3335, is that its mouthshall be at least large enough to ad-mit all the air the reed inserted in it is capable of carrying. This condition being… … 3334.
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