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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1906)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 112

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engine design and yet permits expansive working. What are called disk-engines are of two great types. Thefirst mi^ht properly be called a vibrating-piston engine or THE MECHANISM OF ENGINES. €>S sometimes a pendulum engine, such as is shown in Fig. 48.It will be seen that a flat flap or disk… … Fig. 48. ae beam-engine. This design was proposed many years age*by Captain Ericsson. A more usual form of engine in which a vibrating-pressureorgan forms a part is that presented in Fig. 49. This showsa disk B against wheh press six single-acting pistons which 66 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF POWER…

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