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 550
tom of the chamber forming a support to theheads of the pump-cylinders, as well as a bed-plate for the air-pump and condenser of the engine: itssides, etrongly ribbed, support the engine bed-plate ■with the superstructure, and the top is itself a partof the engine bed-plate. A culvert from the bay… … chamber adjoining the conduit are open, and furnished with flap-valves of vulcanized India-rubber,optning outwardly to prevent the rising tide from flowing into the chamber. Four cast-iron girders ofi section, 32 inches deep, are placed transversely across the well, directly underneath the bottom…
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