The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 193
of the cylinder. Suspecting from my former experiments that the discharge ofsuch a wheel must he uniform under all velocities, I took the op-portunity of experimenting on this, by applying friction to theshaft (about half an inch in diameter) with my fingers. / couldnuike no .sensible, variation in… … The accompanying cut represents a section of the vanes. TREATISES ON THE STEAM-ENGINE. The want of a satisfactory treatise on the steam-engine haslong been felt. The existing treatises, notwithstanding theirgeneral merits, do not supply the whole of the information whichthe engineer recjuires; and…
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