A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine (1876)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 483
r improvement, they became the meansr.f extending manufactures genei-ally, and introduced one which had neverV>efore been known in the world, viz. the fabrication of motive engines—amanufacture upon which the wealth, power and happiness of nations arndestined in a great degree hereafter to… … No. 197. Leopolds Hijh Pressure Eogino A. D. 1720. Two Steam cylinders, open at top and prrvided with pistons a h, wereplaced over the boiler c, from the upper part of which a four-way cock dadmitted steam alternately into the bottom of each. The pistons wereconnected by inflexible rods to the ends…
Pumping machinery
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