Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
by the arrow, which presses it down to thebottom of the cylinder, while the steam below the piston is driven outthrough the lower passage into the opening, L, as shown by the otherarrow, which communicates with the ejection-pipe. If now the sliding-valve, T, be moved up, by means of its rod,… … STEAM-ENGINE. 195 the steam-chest and the lower end of tlie cylinder, as now tliere isbetween it and tlie upper end. The sliding-valve being thus moved, the steam will now force thepiston back. By alternately shifting the valve, the steam is alternatelyadmitted and discharged at the opposite ends…
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