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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 228

An illustration from The Locomotive, 1867, leaf 228
with its crooked end behind,— that is, downward as shown in the illustration,—and by means of the blowpipe the open end of A was neatly and permanentlysealed up. The branch tube marked To Sprengel pump was then fusedto the suction tube of a Sprengel air pump capable of exhausting the airin the… … Fig. 2.— Filling the Capsule with Pure, Air-Free Water. wetted with concentrated sulphuric acid, and a straining tube loosely packedwith linen and cotton, being placed between b and the pump. The apparatus was now ready for the drying-out operation, which con-sisted in exhausting the air from T…

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