The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 291
h itfrom the action of the steams simple elastic force. This force is illustrated in a note at the foot of the page by a com-parison with the Pile-driving Machine and Hydraulic Ram; we thinkthe following illustration much more appropriate. Let d ef g in the annexed diagram represent the section of… … suspentlcd nt the other end; further, let/; A-represent an inflexiblecircular phite fitting air-light into the cylinder, liut supposed to huveno weight, and let there be a space c between this plate and the piston;; filled with air of a given density. The piston p being near the top of the…
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