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 745
able the stoker to raise or lower the latter with the utmost facility. R, a register or damper surmounting the chimney, for the purpose of regulating the draught of thefurnace. It is brought within the command of the attendant workman by means of a long chain orwire e e, depending from the lever… … Robinson and Lees patent. One ton and a half of loaf bread, or a ton of biscuit, is produced by thisinvention hourly, without the intervention of human labor in any stage, although the machine itself FUTTOCK. 135 occupies less than a square yard of space. It is well known that the process of…
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