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 635
passage, and at the same time, by the contact of the edge of the piston with its curved part, prevent-ing water from passing. As the machine is worked, the water that enters the lower part of the pumpthrough the suction-pipe is forced round and compelled to rise in the discharging one, as…
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