The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 422
. In the first part of our investigation on the employment of steam, wequoted the ancient philosophers of Greece and Rome ; one of the mostcelebrated mechanics of the school of Alexarrdria; a pope ; a gerrtlerrrarrof the court of Herrry the Fourth ; an hydraulist, born in Normarrdy,that fertile… … * PAPINS MACHINE.Consisted of a boiler B, provided with a safety valve V; and a cylinderG H, connected to the boiler by a steam pipe S. The cvliuder was closed atthe toi>, and contained a floating piston P ; and the base of the cyliniler ter-minated in a curved tube T, -which ascended into a…
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