The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 428
dedto. Watt, at all events, has not the merit of reviving it; it was he who firstapplied it, and it was from his calculations of the extent of surfaces necessaryfor heating rooms of different sizes, which at first served to regulate theapplication of this process. If Watt, in the course of his long… … BtleKous. DOUBLE ACTING ENGINE, FOR SUPPLYING WATER. Fig. 16, represents an engine, with the several parts before explained, com-bined in one view. The steam, from the boiler, passes by the pipe S, thronsh the valve a, andforces down the piston p to the bottom of the cylinder C; juu before the…
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