some of these provisions are unnecessaryor inapplicable. In others supplementary expedients are requiredand supplied. Our present purpose, however, will be attained, ifwe have succeeded in rendering clearly intelligible the generalprinciple upon which the machine as described above acts,and the… … LONDON ENTRANCE TO THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILROAD. THE LOCOMOTIVE. CHAPTEE I. 1, Familiar to every eye.—2. Its mechanism not generally understood.—3. Object of this Treatise.—4. Two modes of propelling wheel car-riages.—5. How locomotive is propelled.—6. Action of piston-rodon wheels.—7.…
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