The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 467
applied, and the quan-tity of fuel consumed, will be equal to the load, or to that of a lowpressure condensing engine, similarly constructed to those on board ofsteam boats. The effect produced on the bailing-scoop will be totallydifferent, and instead of a continuous action as exhibited in the… … to adopt the reciprocating principle, and by raising a weight suspendedat the opposite end of the engine beam B, the large bailing-scoop A,revolving on a fulcrum at C, descends to the lower level, and is filledwith water through the opening valves D, D. The weight havingbeen elevated to the full…
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