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 826
xed engravings, of which Fig. 3738 is a plan, and Fig. 3739 a section, taken throughthe centre from A to B. It consists of a lixed cylinder, placed in the centre of a room, and which cyl-inder is about 5 ft. 6 in. diameter and 5 ft. high, with a chamber above and below, each furnished… … jpen at both ends, and has an outer case at about 3 inches distance, and the whole depth of the cylin-der filled with ^ter, which forms an annular hydraulic joint. Within this cylinder is another cylinder,B ft. 9 in. diameter, inclosed on the top, similar to the rising bell of a gas-holder ; the…
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