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 596
Scale.—1 incb=l foot. Fig. 1549 represents plan and section of piston both for marine and land. This may be regarded asa favorable, and at the same time, characteristic specimen of the most generally approved and widelyadopted variety of packing in which separate springs are employed. The ease with…
Mechanical engineering
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