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Scientific American, Vol. 29, No. 23 (December 1873) (1873)

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ed 460 tuns of coal to a steam expands by increase of area until cut off by another pis- hight of 20 feet in eleven hours. ton. The point, however, to which we desire to call more di- At a warehouse in Washington rect attention, is the valve, which, of the usualD shape,slides street in this city,… … THE CHALLENGE REVERSIBLE HOISTING ENGINE PURPOSES. upper part of this valve is a rack into which work the cogs seven horse power, we were informed, wouldhoist one tun 150 value in lifting blocks from quarries. Its arrangement is of a segment pinion, which is vibrated by means of a hand feet per…

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