The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 362
,—at first imperfectly constructed, butsince greatly modified and perfected by the author of the presentpaper. Tlie annexed engraving represents a section of the valves. Itwill be observed that the cylinder A, the steam-chests C, D, and 1819. 1 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 317 the… … In the construction of a steam-engine, two important considera-tions present themselves, the attainment of a maximum of force,and the minimum in the consumption of fuel; to acquire the firstit is requisite to form such an arrangement of the working parts,as to obtain the closest approximation to a…
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