A catechism of the steam engine in its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture. With practical instructions for the manufacture and management of engines of every class (1864)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton & co. · leaf 136
oat rises, the supply of feed water is diminished. The feedwater in land boilers is admitted from a small open cistern,situated at the top of an upright or stand pipe set upon theboiler, and in which there is a column of water sufficiently highto balance the pressure of the steam. 249. Q.—What is… … the one side with a valve, e, opening inwards, through whichthe water obtains admission to the pump chamber from thecistern, and on the other by a plug, d, through which, if the 120 ACTION OF THE CATARACT. plunger be forced clown, the water must pass out of the pumpchamber. The engine in the upward…
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