The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 98
93 I/O IV TO MAKE A SMALL MARINE ENGINE. If you have followed these directions your boat ought to steam for two hours anda half without refilHng the boiler; though the lamp would not burn all that time.But if you solder a short piece of tube a quarter of nn inch in diameter into thefnmt end of the… … Fig. 26. and connected to the lamp by a piece of india-rubber tubing joining the two tubes,the lamp will supply itself from the tank as it gets low. The spirit from the tankwill not fill the lamp, but will just cover the hole of the tube and keep at thatheight so long as there is any spirit in the…
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