The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 201
requally, and prevent the formation of ridges and marks in thecylinder or packing. The piston may be also made of wrought-iron or steel, in one piece with the piston-rod, and with the adop-tion of one breadth of packing, so that the piston may be as lightas possible. Under this division of their… … Fig. 4. The second improvement, relating to steam-engines, consists inceitain alterations in the chimney and blast-pipe of locomotiveengines, and is intended to obtain, from the escaping steam, anefl^ectual means of accelerating the ingress of atmospheric air tothe furnace, and at the same time…
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