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 953
water thus remains at a constant distance from the axis. This system of construction is sometimestermed Eiders after the alleged inventor. The credit of its adaptation to practical use appears tobe due to M. Fontaine of Chartres, France. The wind is usually cased in so that it may be set atany…
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