The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 107
second crank for working the force, or air-pump, which at everystroke forces into the receiver a quantity of air equal to thatexpended in moving the piston. The specification is accompanied withthree or four sheets of diagrams, showing sections of the cylinders &c., whichwould be too elaborate… … receiver or reservoir, fixed in brickwork and surrounded with a flue proceed-ing from the furuace ; b is the cylinder of the engine placed within the same ;c is the piston ro<l connected with the crank-shalt in the usual manner by aconnecting rod ; d d are the valve rods worked by means of…
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