Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 90
r to secure high piston-speed. THE MECHANISM OF ENGINES. 49 Fig. 33 shows a modern type of beam-engine in whichthe cylinders are horizontal and the angular motion of thebeam is on each side of a vertical centre-line instead of a hori-zontal as hitherto. The pump-plunger is here continuouswith one… … ^W^^^ Fig. 34. come about when the axes of the cylinders are parallel to eachother and the fly-wheel shaft in line with neither; in Fig. 35the beam is in line with the steam-cylinder, and in Fig. 36the beam loses its linear or conventional shape. 25. Objections to the Beam-engine.—The…
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