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 484
. By these arrangements it will be seen that as tliepile is, by successive steps, forced into the ground by the action of the hammer, (the chain-barrel beingthrown out of geer with its driving apparatus during the process,) the pile-case with all its appendages,weighing about three tons, is left at… … The driving apparatus consists simply of a modification of his steam-hammer, the action of the vari-ous parts being in all respects identical, though the whole is movable, as above described, instead ofbeiug fixed. The steam necessary for its supply is generated in a boiler I, the construction of…
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