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Ship-building in iron and wood (1863)

Murray, Andrew, 1813-1872, Murray, Robert. Steam-ships, Creuze, Augustin Francis Bullock, 1800-1852 · Edinburgh : A. and C. Black · leaf 136

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he case of screw-vessels, is now V^-v^.^-/generally accomplished (see fig. lo). Direct-acting |)addle-wheel engines may be classed under Varieties,four iieads ; namely, those Hhich preserve the parallelism ofthe piston-rod by means of the system of jointed rods calleda parallel motion (figs. 3 and… … Fig. 7. Direct Doable-cylinder Engines, snitable for large power. (Mandplay.) those denominated trunk-engines (fig. 8), in which ahollow cylindrical trunk is att;iched to thepiston, and passes, steam-tight, throughthe cylinder cover. Several of these va-rieties have their distinctive…

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