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 377
ss variety, differing not in essential principles but in detail. Weinstance one of the earliest improved stills, that invented by Corty, and afterwards much simplified byMessrs. Shears & Sons. Fig. 1033 is a representation of this still: A being the body of the still into which the wash is… … I : DOCKING SHIPS. 369 of the pipe E and the distributing pipes G G G. The spirit vapor then rising from the body of the stillmeets a check at the lowest plate C, by reason of the coolness occasioned by the water; this condensesthe grosser part of the vapor and throws it back, whilst the lighter…
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