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 570
doors to make a steam-tight junction with the eccentric. This contrivance has not as yet realized anygreat success, and the prevailing opinion among engineers appears to be, that it will not supersedeordinary engines. Similar engines have been tried on many former occasions, but they have been… … k-Q Fig. 1498 is a rotary engine invented by Mr. Yule, and he Lashad it in operation, working smoothly for some years. It consistsof a cylinder C, in which, upon the axis A, revolves another ec-centric cylinder B, fitting tightly by means of packing at the lineof contact. D is a diaphragm, which…
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