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Treatise on the steam engine (1839)

Renwick, James, 1790?-1863 · New-York, Carvill & Co. · leaf 208

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may be raised, with an equal expenditure offuel, nearly as high by condensation, in vessels placed at differ-ent levels, as it is by direct pressure of any intensity, howevergreat. We have placed on the opposite page a section of the engine ofSavary, which in its complete form was double, one… … I is the boiler in which the steam is generated. O, steam pipe, by which steam is conveyed to the vessel P. q q, pipe communicating with a reservoir beneath ; throughthis pipe the water is raised to the vessel P, where the steam iscondensed by the pressure of the atmosphere. S, rising-pipe through…

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