Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 341
ir-pump,i sam i- admitted and allowed to escape bymeans of a slide-valve, worked by an eccentric. The lour main parts of each engine, viz. : the cyl-inder, slide-valves, condenser, and air-pump, form asquare, and thus occupy little Fig. 2728 represents in outline one of the Fair-bairn engines.… … MAKINE STEAM ENGINE. 135 Iters more suddenly as tl mated from the up to the down str than would I the case had the connectiiig-r . hi meet din a long connecting rod is an im to tl limited, th 2T29 linder, the radius of the crank, and the amo-srs. Maudslay and Field pn ■nedy it by iid : en- gine,…
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