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 11
to increased domimard velocity of action theundue upward action, which might otherwise have proved not only useless, but destructive. The in-crease of energy in the blows which can be obtained by this simple means is a point of considerableuiiportance. It is scarcely necessary to remark that, in… … Plan of Fig. 2244 on preceding page. HAMMER Another point of constructive detail worthy of Rpecial notice is, tlie peculiar mode adopted for con-necting the piston-rod to the hammer-block. This is one of the most important details in the eutiriinvention, and without which no practical success would…
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