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 172
ferable; and that part of the current, which, with-out taking part in the combustion, cooled the flame in a useless manner, and passed alongthe inner surface of the cylinder, is almost entirely removed. The glass chimneys are, how-ever, applicable to all burners with flat, round, or semicircular… … By an ingenious modification, Phillips has succeeded in his sinumbra lamp. Figs. 2480 and 2481, (situumbra,) in rendering the shadow imperceptible even in the latter kind, and thisis done by the pocuUai 168 LAIilPS. section of the circular vessel o. Its tliree surfaces meet in the form of a flat…
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