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 103
dwelt on in that aspect furtherhere than to say, that although very cheapand convenient in its construction, it usesmore water for a given eflect than awater-wheel would do, and that its effec-tiveness is quite limited. Karsten refusesto admit that the dampness of the blastit affords, injures the… … IRON. 99 The ehain-blomcr of Henschel is (in improvement upon tliis macliine. In it, a more complete separ-ation of tlie air and water is effecteJ, by means of an endless chain of floats or pistons, worked by thedescending water itself; but its effect is not such as to take it out of the general…
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