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 574
by the machinery, so as to admit the steam into the passage N, and also to allow the steamto pass away, through the other passage O, to the condenser; in 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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