Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 482
Scale.—4 feet=3 in. * Bourne on tho Steam Engine. t See Cornish Engine. ENGINES, DETAILS OF. 470 … 480 ENGINES, DETAILS OF. by the lifting-pump in the drainage of the water as the mine is sunk deeper. The plunger-pump ob-viates the uecessity for as large a counterweight as would otherwise be necessary; for the force of theengine is expended in lifting the pump-rods, and the water is forced out…
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