A catechism of the steam engine and its various applications to mines, mills, steam navigation, railways, and agriculture (1876)
Bourne, John, civil engineer. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 134
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, c, 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 down, the water must pass out of the pumpchamber. The engine in the upward…
Steam engineering · Steam-engines
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