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)
e steam whichhas worked the pistons through a contracted orifice, pre-sented upward in the chimney, by the regulation of whichany degree of draft may be obtained. One of the most improved engines at present in use isrepresented in fig. 61. A represents the cylindrical boiler, the lower half of… … ber is attached to one end of it, at r, as in the Rocket, andsimilar in construction ; the cylinders are inserted in a cham-ber at the other end, immediately under the chimney. Thepiston-rods are supported in the horizontal position byguides ; and connecting rods extend from them, under theengine,…
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