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 370
engines are fired up and triedbefore they leave the shop, and they are warranted tight, safe,and complete. A strong and convenient running gear, so arranged as to beeasily attached and detached at pleasure, is furnished, if de-sired ; forming, when separate, a useful wagon. Fig. 68 is a compact… … 354 Corlisss stea^i exglxe. Although the value of expansion has been called in questionby some of the engineers of the United States Navy, and underan appropriation from Congress is now to be made the subjectof experimet; yet, in almost all the manufactories and work-shops of the United States, no…
Steam engineering · Steam-engines
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