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 73
56 THE GORGON ENGINE. ing engine (fig. 27), besides numerous other forms of enginewhich are less known or employed, such as the trunk (fig. 22),double cylinder (fig. 23), annular, Gorgon (fig. 24), steeple(fig. 25), and many others. The side lever engine, however, Fig 24. … and the oscillating engine, are the only kinds of paddle engineswhich have been received with wide or general favor. 113. Q.—Will you explain the main distinctive features ofthe side lever engine ? A.—In all paddle vessels, whatever be their subordinatecharacteristics, a great shaft of wrought…
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