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 636
ment, is secured to the inner circumference of the case, and the drum turns against it at the centreof the chord line; on both sides of the place of contact it is curved to the extremities of the arc,and the sucking and forcing pipes communicate with the pump through it, as represented in…
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