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 844
in its action is perfectly silent, as the metal-flaps fiiU without noise against the Ijidia-iiib-ber tube. It is also free from all complication; and a fresh piece of India-rubber tube, if ever neeJe-i,will make the closet as good as new. WATER-METRE—By W. H. Lindsay. The invention of an instrument… … Tlie water-gage represented in Figs. 3Y69 and 37TO is the invention of William H. Lindsay, cou-structing-engineer, New York, who has, after a large outlay of time and money, succeeded in producinga durable and critically accurate instrument, and is the only one yet brought info practical…
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