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 378
antageousstrength to run it at. Fig. 1034 is another arrangement of the same kind of still; being the addition of the common still Ato the patent still B. In this case the contents of B are drawn down from time to time into A, and thatof A run off as dunder; the spirit from A being conducted into… … DrVTNG-BELL. A box, shap*ed somewhat like a bell, and usually constructed of plate iron, intend-ed for the purpose of enabling a person to descend beneath the surface of the water. It is open below,and is lowered into the water, the air beneath being condensed in proportion to the depth to which it…
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