Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 50
forms a pipe,through which the steam is admitted and discharged, and the piston is sta-tionary, the cylinder moving instead—between vertical guides. A hammerface is attached to the bottom of the cylinder by a kind of dovetail socket,■so that if the striking surface becomes injured in any way,… … Fig. 14.—Merryweather^s Steam Fire-Engine.
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