A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 245
ceeding railway stronger and more sub-stantial. He adds : Small engines are losing ground,and large ones are daily demonstrating that powerful en-gines are the most eeononaical. He gives a sketch of hislatest engine, weighing nine tons, and capable, as he states,of taking 100 tons, gross load, at… … CHAPTER V. THE MODERN STEAM-ENaiNE. VoilI la plus merrellleuse de toutea les Machines; le Mdcanisme res-semble k celui dea animaux. La chaleur est le principe de son mouvement;il se fait dans ses difffireus tuyaux une circulation, comme celle du sangdans les veines, ayant des valvules qui souvrent…
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