The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 324
peculiar adaptation of steam power toa drum barrel or cylinder, round which a rope or chain, for raising theweight, is passed. Rotary motion is given to the dranght-barrel orpulley by a steam-engine ; the outer end of its piston-rod beingattached to a chain or rope, coiled round a winding-drum, of… … Fig. 3. fectlv ; and fig. 2 is a horizontal view of the same. A, is a rectangu-lar frame of iron, which contains and supports the machinery. Itmay be fixed iirmly into the ground, or mounted upon wheels to admitof its being transported to different parts of a wharf or warehouse.In or near the…
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