Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 367
DIAGRAMS TAKEN FROM H. M. STEAMER bAROSSA. double-acting air-pumps, the buckets of which move at a highrate of speed; and I also pointed out the cause of this imperfectvacuum, which I showed to be consequent on the lodgment of Fig. 18. USr- 10 … -5. AIR-PUMP DIAGRAM FROM H. M. STEAMER BAROSSA. iarge quantities of water between the foot and delivery-valvesat the end of the pump, into which water the pump forced inthe air or drew it out without ejecting it from the pump at all. Iconsequently recommend that in all pumps of this class the…
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