Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 652
ne, and to trace out the connection of their motions. (308.) Siri^le-acting Steam-Engine. — W\xQni\iQs,tQ2im-QzigmQis used for pumping water, which was at first its only practicalapplication, its force is required only in raising the pump-rodswith their load of water, their own weight being more… … Fig. 443. therefore, no necessity of admitting the steam to tlie bottom ofthe cylinder. Engines constructed for this purpose, in which thesteam acts only on one side of the piston, are called single-actingengines, to distinguish them from the double-acting engines de-scribed in the last section.…
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