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 39
ssocket, containing a cylindrical piece of partridge-wood, with a circular hole or passage through it, J ofan inch in diameter, into which tlie steam is admitted through an aperture. The peculiar shape of thisaperture appears to derive its efficacy from the tendency it gives the steam to spread out… … The electricity produced by this engine is not so remarkable for its high intensity, as for its enormousquantity. In no case, antecedent to this, has the electricity of tension taken so rapid a stride towardsassimilating with galvanic electricity. Mr. Faradays e.\periments on the identity of the…
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