The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 70
nd lead-weight u ii,is upon the stretch. At this point the lever and weight Are upon abalance, so that the least further rise of water in the cistern carries itsuddenly over, and allows the valve g to close. A reverse motiontakes place on the fall of the cistern water, the action of the other… … t= =ti =i Refebrnpe to Enceaving.—ABCD, outer cise of thin east iron for cnclosin;^ the apparalus shown inseel inn, n a Arehimedean screw workm^ in the cyhndcr hh. cc thin br.iss winds (ir Hies, «iili adjiistin^screws for regulating the motion of the screw, d pinion upon the end of the…
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