Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 847
The raising of the handle, a- shown in fig. 3768, causes the water to fall from the cistern to thecloset, and suddenly discharges the contents of the basin with all its force through a four inch India-rub-ber pipe, flushing, as it is termed, the trap and soil-pipe each time the closet is used. The…
Mechanical engineering
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