Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 465
hen in the position shown in the figure the steam enters by F,and passes into the left-hand end of the cylinder (past the edge of thevalve) and pushes the piston from left to right. The steam at present inthe cylinder (as shown by the arrows) passes out at L, and through theunder part of the valve… … The point at which this occurs is called the point oi cut off. No more steamis allowed to enter the cylinder for that stroke, the piston being pushedforward by the pressure of the elastic steam expanding behind it. By thetime the piston has got to the end of its stroke, the position of the valve…
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