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 488
Scale.—4 feet=3 in. * Bourne on the Steam Engine. t See Cornish Engine. ENGINES, DETAILS OF. 470 4 1358. ft ft ml IP … 480 ENGINES, DETAILS OF. by the lifting-pump in the drainage of the water as the mine is sunk deeper. The plunger-pump ob-viates the necessity for as large a counterweight as would otherwise bo necessary; for tho force of theengine is expended in Idling die pump-rods, and the water is forced out by…
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