The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 216
he arms above mentioned projects apin, to which is attached the coiuiecting-rod transferring the power of theengine to the crank of tlie fly-wheel and gear. On each side of the steani-chamber are two distinct slide-valves, worthy of particular notice: they taketheir motion from an eccentric on the… … commencement of the stroke, and remains so to any subsequent part ofit that may he desired. By this arrangement of the valves, the steamcan he worked expansively or not without cams, tappet, or gear of anykind, the slides of themselves cutting oH the steam at any part of thestroke. Having thus…
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