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 846
ted in England with cyhnder or piston-valves, was that put up in the Alport mines, Derbyshire, in the year 1842. This was a single cyhnderengine. Its success was complete, and others were erected on the same plan. But in IS-to, a com-bined cylinder engine was designed, and erected by tlie same… … Fig. 3771 is a front elevation of the combinetl cylinder engine. Fig. 3772 is a sectional view, and/ig. 3773 is a general plan. PC is the bottom of the pressure column, 130 feet high, and 2-t inchesinternal diameter. C C are the combined cylinders, each 24 inches diameter, open at top, with…
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