Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 640
In these, 1 i- a water cistern beneath the tower, A is a pipe from any competent blowing app •leading into a hollow annular ring-chamber 6, the bottom of which i- to be supported in any propermanner above the cistern I ; the inner face forms a portion of the passage for the descending -hot ;…
Mechanical engineering
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