Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 518
5cxx) HORSE-POWER ALLIS-CHALMERS STEAM ENGINE, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Horizontal and vertical cylinders united to the same crank pin. MECHANICAL DRAFT 449 … versally, and yet it is wasteful in the extreme. Nobody for amoment would think of putting a wheel like that of a smoke-jackin a chimney so that the risingstream of hot gases mightdrive a sewing-machine or achurn, and yet for a task justas mechanical, namely, thepushing upward a chimneycurrent…
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