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)
ks its piston, whichis solid and without a valve: r is the pipe from the con-denser to the air-pump, through which the condensed steamis drawn off through the valve g on the ascent of the piston,and on the descent, this is forced through a tube into a hotwell h, for the purpose of feeding the… … Pl.X. Fiff. -J-ff.
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