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 536
b i- of strokes. … Another variation of the forcing pump, called a plunger-pump. Fig. 3127, consistsin making the piston of the same lecgth as the cylinder but rather less in diame-ter, so that it may be moved freely in the former without touching the sides. Thesepistons are made wholly of metal, and turned smooth…
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