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 340
au outline elevation of thedouble-cy Under engine. In the oscillating engines the connecting-rod is altogether dispensed with, the piston-rod being attached directly to the crank; andbecause the piston-rod from this mode of at-tachment, must either he bent when motionensues, or the top of the… … 336 MAEINE STP]AM ENGINE. Fig. 2732 will give an idea of the appearance of the oscillating engine. Many nautical men, and some engineers, have objected to oscillating engines on account cf the move-ment of the cylinder, -which, they imagined, would become a formidable evil in the case of a vessel…
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