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 288
comotives as built by Ross &, Winaus of Baltimore, differ essentially from those of othei LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. 283 makers. The freight engines are usually eight-wheeled engines, all connected; the fire-hox is extremelylong and capacious. The fuel is let down through a hopper above the fire-hox,… … Coal engines, as bui.t by Perkins of Alexandria, have three pairs of connected drivers and a forwardtruck. The coal engines of other makers are in general appearance similar to the wood engine, the ditference being almost entirely in the form of the boiler. 284 LOGARITHMS. LOGARITHM. The logarithm…
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