Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 237
d over again, thereby dispens-ing with the employment of combustibles, excepting for the purposes of restoring the heat lost by theexpansion of the acting medium and that lost by radiation, also for the purpose of making good thesmall deficiency unavoidable in the transfer of the caloric. We now… … with pistons a and b, the latter having air-tight metallic packing rings inserted at their circumferences.A is the supply cylinder, and B the working cylinder, a piston-rod attached to the piston a workingthrough a stuffing-box in the cover of the supply cylinder. C is a cylinder with a spherical…
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