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The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical sketch of its invention and progressive improvement; its applications to navigation and railways; with plain axioms for railway speculators (1849)

Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859, Renwick, James, 1790?-1863 · Philadelphia, Carey & Hart · leaf 134

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at the sametime the rod f is raised, and the valves b and c are opened.Steam is now admitted through an aperture above the valvec, and passes below the piston, while the steam above itpasses through the open valve b into a tube immediatelyunder it, which leads to the condenser. A vacuum beingthus… … D?*awn 2rv J. Clement. WATTS lililMU.iK .■V(ll>li ST.KAM K> CI >•!•,

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