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 339
admitted and allowed to escape bymeans of a slide-valve, worked by an eccentric. The four main parts of each engine, viz.: the cyl-inder, slide-valves, condenser, and air-pump, form asquare, and thus occupy little space. Fig. 2728 represents in outline one of the Fair-bairu engines. Maudslatjs… … MARINE STEAM ENGINE. 335 crank alters more smlJciily as the motion is alternated from tlio up to the down stroke, and vice verm, than would have been the case had the connecting-rod been loiif^cr.Now, in most direct engines a long connecting rod is an impossibility; for the distance from the shaft…
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