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 578
doors to make a steam-tight junction with the eccentric. This contrivance has not as yet realized anygreat success, and the prevailing opinion among engineers appears to be, that, it will not supersedeordinary engines. Similar engines have been tried on many former occasions, but they have been… … Fig. 1498 is a rotary engine invented by Mr. Yule, and he hashad it in operation, working smoothly for some years. It consists 1498, of a cylinder C, in which, upon the axis A, revolves another ec-centric cylinder B, fitting tightly by means of packing at the lineof contact. D is a diaphragm, which…
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