The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 387
may be, and often is, tomodify the mechanical powers, to suit the various purposes of ma-chinery; all the changes we can ring upon them will never help us toan increase of power, beyond the lessening of friction through sim-plicity of construction. In order to illustrate what is meant by these… … A the annular piston roil, B the ci imnctuig rod, C the crank, V the pislon Fie. 2. Mg. Representing the old mode of applying the power
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