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 336
overthe axis of the cylinder; but the method has the disadvantage of admitting only a short stroke and ashort connecting-rod, and requires that the height of the axis above the bottom of the cylinder shouldbe at least three times the length of the stroke. Thus one of the extremes, too short a… … 332 MAKINE STEAM ENGINE. ately over the ayis and cranks, to which motion is communicated from the cross-head of the piston bjmeans of side-rods, the air-pump being worked by a separate beam connected with the cross-head by pro-per links ; but this is equally unsuited to sea-going steamers on…
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