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)
this space cold water is allowed toflow from a cock m placed over it, which is supplied by apipe from the cistern n. This cistern is supplied with waterby a pump o, which is worked by the engine itself, from thebeam above it. The cold water supplied from m, having filled the spacebetween the two… … r.nw. liv ].M.ivori,-k SAVERY AND NEWCOMEN. 65 which the piston is immediately forced by the atmosphericpressure. Preparatory to the next descent, the water whichthus fills the space between the cylinders, and which iswarmed by the heat it has abstracted from the steam, mustbe discharged, in order…
Steam-engines
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