The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 458
engers of beinguu-confined, and in view of the country. If a round iron tube, 24 inches in diameter, he made, with an opening of 2inches wide in the circumference, and a flanch 6 or 8 inches deep on eachside of the opening, it will leave a channel between the flanches, and an open-ing into the… … If such a tube is laid all along upon the ground, ■nith the iron channel ini-mersed in a channel of water, up to m, and a piston or box made to fit itloosely, and pass through it upon wheels or rollers, tliis box, driven througlithe tube by the air forced into it, may give motion to a carriage…
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