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 547
nyingfigure. P represents the piston in the cylinder, L L the great beam, L R the connecting-rod, R 0 thecrank, and R W W W a toothed wheel carried round by the crank. These are all the same as in thecommon steam-engine. There is added rt»»,a smaller wheel, whose diameter is only one-half thatof… … lever, driven by the crank of the small wheel, to which it is attached by means of its connecting-rod.The piston-rod / H is attached to the small lever / /, carrying with it a piston from top to bottom of anopen cylinder H. At the points marked 1,2, 3, 4, the circumference of the great wheel is…
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