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 651
h a communication between the main-cylinder ports and the steam- or exhaust-pipes can be es- 620 PUMPS, STEAM. tablished or shut off. The arrows in the figure show the passage of steam into the main cylinder onthe right-hand side, and the exhaust on the other side. When the piston arrives at the… … the opposite ends of the main cylinder, its momentum being taken up by the spring, which remainscompressed until the return Stroke. The Isochronal S/<;,,u-I>i,u/>, Fig. 3558, so called by its inventors and manufacturers, Messrs. Cope& Maxwell of Hamilton, Ohio, has a governor, the…
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