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

Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 68

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Fig. 14.—Paplns Two-Way Cook. being turned the other way, admitted the cold condensingwater. The dispersion of the water in minute streams ordrops was a very important detail, not only as securing great THE PERIOD OF APPLICATION. 43 rapidity of condensation, but enabling the designer to em-ploy a… … The receiver. A, is connected to the boiler, -B, by asteam-pipe, G, terminating at the two-way cock, Z>/ the forcing-pipe, JS, has at its foot a check-valve, J^ and thevalve 6^ is a similar check at the head of the suction-pipe.-Ef is a strainer, to prevent the ingress of chips or otherbodies…

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