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The boys' book of engine-building; (1918)

Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · Boston, Small, Maynard and company · leaf 25

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Fig. 5. Potters Self-Acting Engine Humphreys invention was at once improvedupon by one Henry Beighton who connected arod to the walking beam to work the valves andit is quite likely that, being a man, he profitedby it. Watt Puts on the Flywheel.—In your young io The Boys9 Book of Engine-Building… … Fig. 6. Watts; The First Real Engine developed it to a considerable extent before Watttook it up. What Watt did, though, constituted a mightyinvention for it was he who made the wheels The First Engines II go round. It was in 1763 that he conceived theidea of connecting the piston rod to a crank…

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