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Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1910)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 331

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closed tight. Steam is then introduced at a high pressure—100 to150 lbs. per square inch. This heat coagulates the sap and drives themoisture from the lumber, when creosote oil is pumped into the cyl-inder and saturates the wood. The oil is then driven out of thecylinder by the steam pressure and… … 853. ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN HAMMER. Power is trans-mitted to the crank shaft, A, by means of a flexible shaft, and a recipro-cating motion isgiven to thehammer head,C, by the pitmanB. As the rota-tion of shaft Ais very rapid the succession of blows upon the chisel is so rapid as to be almost…

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