Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 177
; there is, therefore, no othermeans of affording space for the requisite quantity of oil for an evenings consumption, than by addingto the breadth of this vessel. When this is done, and from its being placed immediately under theburner, the shadow falling between o y and o z will very much exceed…
Mechanical engineering
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