The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 264
r. that is to say, thcinvention consists in work-ing locomotive engines by means of compressed or condensed air obtained byexploding gas in the manner hereafter described. The accompanying figure,which, as before stated, is merely a diagram, shows a longitudinal sectionof a locomotive constructed… … rod passing through a stuffing box in the cylinder cover; the upper part othe cylinders i t communicates by means of pipes with the vessel c c, whichcommunication is provided wiih a valve so as to prevent any air returningfrom the vessel c c to the cylinders ; it will therefore be understood that…
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