Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 24
o thecyhnder. The steam which filled the cylinder was, by contact with thecold fluid, instantly condensed into water; and as the liquefied steamwould take up little more than a two-thousandth part of the space itoccupied in the gaseous state, it followed that a vacuum was producedwithin the… … Fig. 2.—Ncwcomen^s Steam Engine. che rod, m. The water which entered the cylinder from the cistern, toge-ther with that produced by the condensation of the steam, flowed out ofthe cylinder by the opening, /, the pipe from which was conducted down-wards, and terminated under water, the surface of…
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