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 779
ction attend- 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 baud 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, (fee, Fig. 1953, and forces the disks bodily forward through a certain space; the motion…
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