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A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)

Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 46

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Cas-tle by Worcester is not known, but it was probably notmuch later than 1628. In 1647 Dircks shows the marquisprobably to have been engaged in getting out parts of thelater engine which was erected at Vauxhall, obtaining his Anecdotes of the Steam-Engine, vol. i., p. 61. THE PERIOD OF… … Fio. T.—Worcesters Steam Pountain, a. d. 1650. reproduce it in aU its details. Fortunately, the cells andgrooves (Fig. 9) remaining in the wall of the citadel ofRaglan Castle indicate the general dimensions and arrange-ment of the engine; and Dircks, the biographer of the in-ventor, has suggested…

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