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 787
on attend- 776 GAS. ing a piston working in a cylinder, a band of leather D D is attached, which acts as a hinge, and foldswith the motion of the disk; this band is not instrumental in measuring the gas, so that its contractionor expansion would only decrease or increase the capacity of the hinge,… … The machine is comparable to a steam-engine measuring its steam, which it does in all cases by thestrokes of the piston. The gas enters the cylinder at the top, from the space occupied by the arms,valves, &c, Fig. 1953, and forces the disks bodily forward through a certain space; the motion…
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