Machinery and processes of the industrial arts, and apparatus of the exact sciences (1869)
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889 · Washington, Govt. print. off. · leaf 107
t is easily proved, that when the velocities become equal, the radiiwhich are for the moment engaged in the gear-wheels on the side of theworking shaft must be equal to each other; and also that those engagedat the same time on the side of the piston shafts must be equal to eachother. The first of… … End view of Thompsons Rotary Engine. angle simultaneously made by the major axes of the ellipses on the pistonshaft, will be the limit of nearest approach of the pistons. 91 If we suppose the engine to be in the position represented in Fig. 19,and call the piston-wheel which is presented…
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