Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 580
d by the machinery, so as to admit the steam mto the passage N, and also to allow the st«amto pass away, through the other passage O, to the condenser; m consequence, the steam enters thespace between N and K, and thus, being behind the piston, drives it still forwards towards the slider L,which… … 1482.
Mechanical engineering
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