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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 257

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Fig. 63. _ ■0 ; D O 1 n h 1 D B _r [ fH> c 1 D 13 CelH 1 □ B 1 a n , > i o H 1 n N 1 ^ fWh 1 u p ^^ f 220 THE STEAM ENGINE. tween the cylinders d and h there are two tubes of commu-nication b, and two similar tubes between the cylinders hand i. From the nature of the section these appear only… … iililPlllll It will be perceived that the space r is enclosed on everyside by a grating of tubes, which have free communicationwith the cylinders d and h, which cylinders have also a freecommunication with each other by the tubes b. It follows,therefore, that if water be supplied to the cylinder i,…

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