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)
^ vapour of water. A hollow sphere, of which a brepresents a section, is supported on two pivots at A and b,which are the extremities of tubes a c d and b e f, whichpass into a boiler where steam is generated. This steamflows through small apertures at the extremities A and b,and fills the hollow… … small hole made near the extremity g, but at one side of oneof the tubes ; the steam confined in the tube and globe wouldimmediately rush from the hole with a force proportionateto its pressure within the globe. On the common principleD 2 G 42 THE STEAM ENGINE. of mechanics a reaction would be…
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